Creative Goes After Driver Modder

FreedomFighter writes "Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being 'Vista Ready'. Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers. Creative insisted that features such as Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS(TM) signals and DVD-Audio which worked fine in WinXP, would not work on windows Vista. With Creative releasing less than one new driver a year, things seemed bleak. Fortunately, a talented user, Daniel_K, was recently able to 'fix' many of the drivers, enabling the incompatible features and also fixing many bugs. Just today Creative has decided to put a stop to this. They removed all links to his modified drivers, and banned several users who were posting links to the now banned drivers."

Bash.org reflects my feelings about Creative

[beacher]

Shamelessly stolen from bash.org [bash.org]

<booradley> I'd like to perform a one act play I call, "Creative screwed me like a bitch"
<booradley> <audigy> Buy me! I'm ever so sexy
<booradley> <boo> ok. come home with me and we'll play among the stars
<booradley> <audigy> tee hee! I love you, boo!
<booradley> <boo> I love you too, audigy
<booradley> :: later ::
<booradley> <boo> there, you're all installed. how do you feel?
<neshura> down in front!
<booradley> <audigy> LET JESUS FUCK YOU! VRAAAGH!
* audience gasps.
<booradley> * audigy is putting noise across your PCI channels
<booradley> <hard drive> Mein leben!
<booradley> * hard drive has died
<booradley> <audigy> Blaaah! blaaaugh! your mother sucks cocks in hell! graaagh!
<booradley> <modem> aaieee
<booradley> *modem has died
<booradley> and the new modem I got connects at 32k tops
<Shendal> By far, that's the best one-act IRC play I've read this season. Do I smell a Tony award?

Re:Creative Sucks

[cortana]

Jesus Christ... and people say Windows is ready for the desktop!

Re:Not really

[danknight]

For some reason all i can think about is Checkov from star trek saying "Adlib was Russian, actually. They were based out of Moscow City.

Re:E-mu/Ensoniq -- anyone?

[TeknoHog]

Why is it that we have to buy expensive 5.1 speaker systems to get anywhere close these days?

I think you just answered your own question.

Most people have two ears, so any audio will be downmixed to 2 channels upon hearing. It's possible to get perfect positional audio with good headphones.

Re:Scruffy seconds.

[wik]

> Seriously, Creative went from awesome to shit. What happened? I still haven't figured that out.

Why don't you ask Dr. Sbaitso [wikipedia.org]? He's here to help you!