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Old 03-31-08   #251 (permalink)
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As one of those "You people" that have posted in the Creative forums, what is going on IS a big deal.

Creative intentionally crippled the drivers to disable full functionality of their cards and state that the functionality that users paid for will NOT be available until the X-Fi 2 cards come out. That is a total lie and is only trying to push people to new hardware. Nothing wrong with wanting to make money, but you don't do it at the expense of your customers. Never bite the hand that feeds you.


After reading yesterday about what was going on, I ditched my X-Fi in favor of an ASUS Xonar card. It works beautifully and even has EAX support. Creative are already moaning about that because EAX was one of the sole reasons that many people have purchased CL cards over the years.
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Well I have just found out about this. Kinda crazy. Read description.

wow!
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Time to buy a Auzentech Prelude!!!!

Pretty sad cause their drivers seem fine in Vista lol
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You still have not explained how around 333+ fps makes your jump further. Can you fill me in?

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Well I have just found out about this. Kinda crazy. Read description.
Even though I've already forgotten the name of that website, it's still pretty shocking that a business would stop selling Creative products this fast..
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for those that are new to business ...

look at what happened with the 680i board ... look at what they promised would be supported.

what happened? oh those cpu's will only be supported in the 780i boards.

Think of all the people that bought that board expecting to be able to upgrade to the new cpu's.

This is nothing new in the world of business. Get used to it. Many companies have reasons for not offering support on certain products. Mainly due to the fact that what they currently have wont work properly with new tech.
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Time to buy a Auzentech Prelude!!!!

Pretty sad cause their drivers seem fine in Vista lol
No, not the Prelude. They liscence their X-fi from Creative. you've got to go elsewhere!

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It was the "epic" line I felt didn't jive with professional.
Putting on the business suit for this one are we?
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for those that are new to business ...

look at what happened with the 680i board ... look at what they promised would be supported.

what happened? oh those cpu's will only be supported in the 780i boards.

Think of all the people that bought that board expecting to be able to upgrade to the new cpu's.

This is nothing new in the world of business. Get used to it. Many companies have reasons for not offering support on certain products. Mainly due to the fact that what they currently have wont work properly with new tech.
ok the only new cpu the 680i wont support is the new quad
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No, not the Prelude. They liscence their X-fi from Creative. you've got to go elsewhere!



Putting on the business suit for this one are we?
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for those that are new to business ...

look at what happened with the 680i board ... look at what they promised would be supported.

what happened? oh those cpu's will only be supported in the 780i boards.

Think of all the people that bought that board expecting to be able to upgrade to the new cpu's.

This is nothing new in the world of business. Get used to it. Many companies have reasons for not offering support on certain products. Mainly due to the fact that what they currently have wont work properly with new tech.
but the difference is, is this was a PHYSICAL limitation imposed by intel. What creative is doing is software limitation, and lousy support, that really doesn't even exist (i have yet to find it)
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