Creative = For Shame

LoadsaMoney said:
Even their speakers are shoddy, ive had 4x sets of them, and they all developed the same problem, volume switch buggering, after a while, when turning the volume up/down, it would knack up, would start to crackle and go low, had to bang the switch to get it to go right, after 4x sets doing exactly the same after a while, i said enough was enough, never touched em since either, i hope the ***** go outa business, go on Creative, please, **** right off as your useless. :D
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I had that with a set of 6.1 speakers as well.
 
I have used creative for years. Last time I used one was when i got my Vista x64 and creative pretty much summarised 'we dont intend to fully support 64-bit vista'. At least, thats the impression i got from their forums / emails. So i sold it on here. Good cards, but abysmal drivers.

Oh, and:
http://www.boycottcreative.com/
 
Aod said:
from what i've read they are needed to get the full functionality out of any Creative card on windows Vista, because creative intentionally crippled the drivers of their cards in order to force people to upgrade.
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Upgrade to what? As you said, none of their cards work 100% under Vista. So what will consumers be upgrading to except to find its a con.

Did anyone see this...

morbias said:
forums.guru3d.com
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"I've been on to the beta drivers website

http://connect.creativelabs.com/default.aspx

looked at the 'report a driver issue' for the latest beta drivers

http://connect.creativelabs.com/beta/Lists/Driver Issues/AllItems.aspx

There is some angry people leaving abusive messages which is not on, but look at a reply from the creative coders after someone left a load of abuse

'Ok, I see a lot of negativity here. Please lets cut the bad talk. We try our best to get working drivers and sure we might not be the best coders but god knows you're really only paying for the low end cards anyway, if people want the professional stuff they would be getting the true pro stuff, its a get what you pay for thing, so don't complain so much, we'll get the drivers working eventually.'

I know they have a hard job but that response from the coders is just a bad as the abuse that people are hurling at them, and what do they mean 'but god knows you're really only paying for the low end cards anyway, if people want the professional stuff they would be getting the true pro stuff, its a get what you pay for thing, so don't complain so much, we'll get the drivers working eventually'

That just sounded terrible and has left me with an even worse perception with them who develop the drivers ....

Can someone from creative or a coder elaborate on this statement ?"


[EDIT]Creative have taken down the links already, if only they were this efficient with everything else
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lol holy hell that thread is now 154 pages long and 1536 posts lol not bad for 3 days :p the pictures of broken creative cards are now on the net
 
I haven't used a Creative product since my Audigy with the hacked drivers... Creative didn't offer good driver packages back in those days, hilarious to see how petty and ridiculous they are now.
Upon release so many people were singing the praises of the X-Fi, I had wanted to buy one for a while but after reading that thread I can safely say I'll stay away from all Creative products. Nothing annoys me more than shoddy product support. :(
 
I smell a creative blog rant coming on later tonight. It's sad to see them get into so much trouble, but they had it coming. I used to cower in fear when installing the Audigy 2 drivers on XP and watching that registry magically grow by +4mb in the process.
 
I notice that no hardware vendor has actually stopped selling these yet, even though they don't work as advertised.............money, money, money heh:(
 
Managed to get all of the Dan K files, there are two files that when clicked show X-Fi.

SBXF_VTDRV_LB_2_15_0004A.exe
XFXA_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0078A.exe

What exactly are these? Are they for 32bit/64 bit Vista? Why would I need them, what do Dan K drivers offer over standard? What has Dan K fixed/added (or what has Creative removed from Vista drivers)
 
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badbob said:
Managed to get all of the Dan K files, there are two files that when clicked show X-Fi.

SBXF_VTDRV_LB_2_15_0004A.exe
XFXA_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0078A.exe

What exactly are these? Are they for 32bit/64 bit Vista? Why would I need them, what do Dan K drivers offer over standard? What has Dan K fixed/added (or what has Creative removed from Vista drivers)
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Indeed, as much as the uproar has got me interested in this development, I was not aware until this thread that the drivers cripple the cards somewhat in Vista.

I assume Dan K's drivers put the functionality back into the driver which Creative removed?
 
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