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ted · 03-31-08

I always saw Creative as the type of company that would be OK with third party drivers and development on their products. Maybe they should be less concerned with this kind of stuff and more concerned with making a 30gb+ MP3 player. Creative Zen Vision:M replacement would be nice anytime now.
I've heard the old management came back to save the company, but I haven't seen any results. I guess a slow economy isn't helping....

dragosmp · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by The_Rocker

Good, any specific drivers I should download now before something happens?

Try to find daniel_k's drivers if you can, imo they are pretty good, but since this whole scandal broke loose they are very hard to come by.

d31337 · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by dragosmp

The truth is that since a few years ago, Creative is the only mainstream sound card supplier and when buying a new sound card we usually have to choose between creative, creative, creative or maybe rest with the onboard realtek. There are others, but too few and not very well known.
If ASUS managed to emulate the EAX 5.0 effects in the CPU, there's no more need of Creative, as simple as that.

I'm pissed just like everybody that not only they failed to publish good drivers, but are threatening to sue decent people that provide them. Their attitude is simply anti-consumer, they wouldn't honestly imagine that daniel_k's drivers would really hurt anything more than the company's ego.

If AMD had tried some stunt like this they would have been out of business by now considering the state of their product lineup.

And this is Creatives fault? Someone stole thier code and altered it to get free software. They are rightfully pi55ed off at someone stealing their product.
Dan K and his leage of preteen followers have an argument that doesnt even hold its own.

chailvr · 03-31-08

up to 738 viewers and still going, I think this thread is some sort of OCN record.

Smarter thing for creative --> buy out the OP.

**ENTERPRISE** · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by jinja_ninja

So does my Audigy2, but I have about half of the usual features compared to when I was on XP. I have barely any EAX options and functionality at all.

I think alot of people were concerned with the fact the drivers were buggy . As for the support for EAX and whatnot..then you can indeed blame creative to a point as they were slow to come to a workaround and such however MS did not help by removing one of the sound API layers.

dralb · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by dragosmp

The truth is that since a few years ago, Creative is the only mainstream sound card supplier and when buying a new sound card we usually have to choose between creative, creative, creative or maybe rest with the onboard realtek. There are others, but too few and not very well known.

If ASUS managed to emulate the EAX 5.0 effects in the CPU, there's no more need of Creative, as simple as that.

I'm pissed just like everybody that not only they failed to publish good drivers, but are threatening to sue decent people that provide them. Their attitude is simply anti-consumer, they wouldn't honestly imagine that daniel_k's drivers would really hurt anything more than the company's ego.

If AMD had tried some stunt like this they would have been out of business by now considering the state of their product lineup.

From what I read, they have not threatened legal action. Besides, intentions do not make the law. I am not defending creative here, I am just saying that there is more than one issue. It is one thing to blame them for lack of support (whether intentional or not) and quite another to attack them for protecting their interests and property.

R3ap3R · 03-31-08

HOLY WOW

d31337 · 03-31-08

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Originally Posted by dralb

From what I read, they have not threatened legal action. Besides, intentions do not make the law. I am not defending creative here, I am just saying that there is more than one issue. It is one thing to blame them for lack of support (whether intentional or not) and quite another to attack them for protecting their interests and property.

Well I am sticking up for Creative here.

I cannot believe how many of my internet community bretherin are supporting this guys drivers which unlock functionality that must be paid for.

Since when do we support stealing and piracy, because, in short, thats all he is doing, pirating.

ljason8eg · 03-31-08

So....what's with creative's stock price not moving at all this morning? Seems...odd to me...unless i'm not looking in the right place lol

*Murlocke* · 03-31-08

Story made the front page.. currently 2,700 viewers on OCN and the servers seem fine.

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