Creative Intentionally Releases Bad Drivers?!?

**Doctor Feelgood**

This seems to be an older story with recent developments... I am just reading it all today.

Apparently one user got tired of Creative's poor drivers for Windows and found he could fix them on his own. He did and people loved them.

But then Creative was pissed instead of happy to get free work they were obviously incapable of and threatened him!

The Story

The Response from the Driver Modder

This is from a Creative Vice President...

FOX · Posted: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:27:02 Post Subject:

wow.... glad i havent been gaming a ton lately so i havent updated them on my xfi platinum... lame...

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:59:36 Post Subject:

people still use sound cards??

Enigmachine · Rated NC-17 Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 122

Creative stopped being good so long ago I'm amazed they are still in business.

The last card I bought from them was a Live! sound card, and I spent soooo much time removing all the extra software that came with it... sigh... I still have nightmares.

But the card worked and it was good at the time... Everything went downhill after that, imho.

Barracas · Posted: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:49:10 Post Subject:

I had read the same story. I was amazed by their statements.
What a crock of poop. They are also attacking ASUS for their new sound card lineup. Hopefully we will start to see more competition on the soundcard front.

T-shirt · Posted: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:32:06 Post Subject:

I gave up on Creative long ago, partly due to incredibly bad support (including totally worthless drivers) In fact I haven't bought a "sound card" for years. On board sound does everything I need.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:47:02 Post Subject:

ASUS' PMP is a good reason... rip good copies of DRM protected files to unrestricted use files... Grin

SUSHRUKH · Rated NC-17 Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 137

Thank God i've never used any Creative product.Good product but crappy drivers & worthless customer Support.I would buy an Auzentech over Creative.

Enigmachine · Rated NC-17 Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 122

Yep, the last sound card I bought was an Auzentech. 15$ for 7.1 SPDIF ouput, pricewise it was definitely worth it - and it sounds great too!

I've had problems with their drivers too, but that's probably only because I messed around with them a lot to get into the 44khhz (or whatever it is) high fidelity rendition mode... Smile

The creative cards might still be good for the musicians (the really high end ones) but for everybody else, you should get a KillerNIC card instead... or a PhysX Smile