Wednesday, February 14th 2007
Creative isn't making much noise on Vista.
Throughout the beta testing of Vista creative has had well beta drivers. For some they work fine, but for others they cause large issues. The problem with Vista we are now begining to see is not actually Vista, but we see the problems with key drivers that are essential to the use and functionality of a machine. This also leaves us to question Vista itself, Why are so many companies slow to produce Vista drivers? Back to Creative, Creative still lacks a non-beta Vista driver, while this dosen't leave anyone in the dark it does leave them with handicapped functionality.
"It should be noted that Creative's newest devices seemingly have Vista support - both the new X-Fi external Xmod has embedded native support, and the X-Fi Xtreme Audio has final non-beta 32-bit drivers (though without any working audio console application, and no 64-bit availbility). Interestingly the rest of the new top-of-the-range X-Fi series drivers are still in beta."
Most drivers are listed as being available in Q1 2007, which is specifically marked as "the end of March." So for all you folks who are "Waiting" to get Vista. Wait till mid-March or April.
Source:
TheInq.com
"It should be noted that Creative's newest devices seemingly have Vista support - both the new X-Fi external Xmod has embedded native support, and the X-Fi Xtreme Audio has final non-beta 32-bit drivers (though without any working audio console application, and no 64-bit availbility). Interestingly the rest of the new top-of-the-range X-Fi series drivers are still in beta."
Most drivers are listed as being available in Q1 2007, which is specifically marked as "the end of March." So for all you folks who are "Waiting" to get Vista. Wait till mid-March or April.
15 Comments on Creative isn't making much noise on Vista.
They have been slowly losing market share for the last what almost 5 years now... They really can't be affording to keep screwing up. I was in circuit city and best buy yesterday picking up some random things, and I was hearing random computer customers saying things like "I wont touch vista", "I don't use windows", "I hate microsoft", "have a machine with XP?"
Around where I live this stuff isn't too heard of..... Really had me laughing the way home.
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But they will try to convince you that EAX is no longer used in games :confused:
From what I read, DRM is the cause why there is no hardware audio (properly functioning Hardware Audio).
That is 1 solid reason in its own I WILL NOT install vista. Almost ALL my games use EAX.
Besides the fact after my Server 2k3 install last night and seeing how its running..
*on an 800mhz notebook* Thing runs fast and smooth, uses no ram. I'm done with simplistic poorly written standard os's.
What is this world coming to?:banghead:
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Microsoft has no blame in this, Creative was/is being too slow to write new drivers (As usual). Vista has a new implementation of processing audio that isnt compatible with older driver models, but creates higher quality sound for onboard sound. I dont know exactly how it works, but it something like the OS processes the sound at a higher level and hands it off to the hardware last; which is a problem for EAX because it processes all sounds. Again, there is a temporary workaround for X-Fi cards...
I just don't understand why people are blaming CL when CL has to figure out a way to circumvent a key element in Vista's HAL (still not convinced that it's possible at this point). I am not sure if it's misinformation, transfer of hatred from Nvidia or just pure hatred for CL in general. But from this alone, it's not the fault of CL.