I was very excited when i first saw the title as I didnt believe creative would actually release any more sound cards ever ad my fatal1ty x-fi is playing up after 4 years. After reading the Daniel K info im not interested at all as it seems like its a step backwards. makes me glad I bought a second hand xfi of these forums a month ago for when my current card dies or I get annoyed with it enough to bin it.
NEW Creative Sound Cards! Bring on the Recon 3D!
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I was originally interested in getting this card after I stumbled on to it through the Creative site. But went off it after I couldn't find any proper reviews of the card and user comments made on other forums.
My X-Fi Extreme Gamer is working fine, but going to need PCI-E for my next rig and from the sounds of things Creative won't be updating drivers for older products on Windows 8. Looking very much like I will be getting a Xonar card.
AStaley.
My X-Fi Extreme Gamer is working fine, but going to need PCI-E for my next rig and from the sounds of things Creative won't be updating drivers for older products on Windows 8. Looking very much like I will be getting a Xonar card.
AStaley.
Mine still workes perfectly in games and music. Famous last wordsBut I am using like 2yr old drivers, as the drivers work perfectly and I refuse to change them, unless I have to.
Using the same drivers on mine. Most stuff still works fine which leads me to think its not a hardware issue. But 1-2 newer games that work fine on my Sennheiser USB soundcard thingy randomly have issues. Strange thing is some games on the same engine one will work fine and another not.
Well, given how long it took them to getting out stable Vista drivers...
Glad my XtremeGamer is still working, though even with Win7 I had issues getting good drivers, currently using an unofficial set, I think. I don't actually have a clue now!
That's a pretty terrible reason for not upgrading, tbh. The actual review posted above is a good reason to avoid. But the fact that there's not much on a PCB? That could just mean that Creative have managed to cram everything into a few chips without requiring a ton of components soldered onto the PCB, which is especially good since each copper line and solder joint creates an area where things can go wrong, so minimalist is good if it can match it with quality.
But it can't, so you shouldn't buy it anyway
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I stick with my XtreamGamer Fatal1ty as well, it's odd that they can't even support 7.1 on these cards and that they lack so much function over the older cards.
I miss my X-fi xtrememusic
I sold it thinking I could happily use the onboard audio solution, but im kidding myself and want a decent sound card back in, once you have tried/heard one, then used the onboard solution the difference is night+day
I sold it thinking I could happily use the onboard audio solution, but im kidding myself and want a decent sound card back in, once you have tried/heard one, then used the onboard solution the difference is night+day
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I'm sure they will still have Creative's buggy, bloated drivers, seriously why do they need a driver that's over 100MB when my D2X driver is only 13MB and doesn't randomly vanish on boot like what was happening with my XFI.
True but the software and drivers are not too bad for my x-fi xtrememusic, as Im using the driver and console software from about 2yrs ago and the original vista 64bit suite for the THX stuff. Plus thats all it installs too, without loads of background stuff.
So the software and drivers are quite good for my x-fi.
Don't get me wrong, I don't rate the AMD/Xonar drivers any better really :/ Saw my mate have various issues with his drivers too but Creative drivers are definitely sucky.
I currently use the original drivers that came on the CD with my Titanium HD since the current version from the Creative Website had some functions missing and seemed no more reliable.
I've downloaded the PAX drivers but I've yet to try them.
I currently use the original drivers that came on the CD with my Titanium HD since the current version from the Creative Website had some functions missing and seemed no more reliable.
I've downloaded the PAX drivers but I've yet to try them.