Pity. Creative do make some really nice products, but their inability to make decent Vista drivers will have me looking elsewhere for my next sound card purchase. I'm looking at you Asus :)
Creative Labs lost me when they decided that my SB Live 5.1 was 'outdated' and no longer deserving of drivers. Explain to me how a sound card ever becomes 'outdated'. I still have AWE32's from the mid 90s that work fine. But simply saying, 'no driver for you, pls upgrade 2 our fine line of new rehashed cards with higher #'s to make you think they are more win' is pretty pathetic. I now roll with whatever's built in to my motherboard and its more than sufficient... oh and actually has digital outputs that dont require funky little adapters or me to get the version with a $100 breakout box =)
@Hardy: You card IS outdated. It may not have warranted an upgrade for the very next series of cards after yours, but as of now the X-Fi has revolutionized sound effects in games that use EAX.
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Pity. Creative do make some really nice products, but their inability to make decent Vista drivers will have me looking elsewhere for my next sound card purchase. I'm looking at you Asus :)
Creative Labs lost me when they decided that my SB Live 5.1 was 'outdated' and no longer deserving of drivers. Explain to me how a sound card ever becomes 'outdated'. I still have AWE32's from the mid 90s that work fine. But simply saying, 'no driver for you, pls upgrade 2 our fine line of new rehashed cards with higher #'s to make you think they are more win' is pretty pathetic. I now roll with whatever's built in to my motherboard and its more than sufficient... oh and actually has digital outputs that dont require funky little adapters or me to get the version with a $100 breakout box =)
@Hardy:
You card IS outdated. It may not have warranted an upgrade for the very next series of cards after yours, but as of now the X-Fi has revolutionized sound effects in games that use EAX.