Mar 31 2008

Creative: don’t make our technology work.

Published by Dom at 2:51 pm under Hacking, Technology

down with creative

From The Consumerist

Apparently Creative just dropped the last straw on the camels back.  After a *year* of not supporting it’s flagship soundcard, the X-Fi, on Vista, a gentleman with handle Daniel_K decided to take it upon himself to release drivers that allow the card to work.  I do understand that the reason Creative has not released these drivers is for legal reasons, but a year?!?!  That is just unacceptable in the tech world.  Any world, really.  It just seems Creative did not conform to due diligence to get these cards licensed to work in Vista.

Thanks for sending this over, Richard!

4 Responses to “Creative: don’t make our technology work.”

  1. # Ianon 01 Apr 2008 at 11:01 pm

    Maybe that is why Vista is locking up on my laptop. I can not leave it running over 24 hours without freezing anymore.

  2. # Domon 02 Apr 2008 at 10:11 am

    No, no, that’s probably just vista doing what it does best. But, do you have an nVidia video card?

    “NVIDIA’s Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007″
    http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/28/0326209&from=rss

  3. # Jayon 02 Apr 2008 at 10:37 am

    I’m very disappointed in the quality coming from creative over the past few years. :(

  4. # Ianon 29 Apr 2008 at 9:33 pm

    I’m running Vista on my XPS Gen2 (2 years old) laptop w/nVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. Have they improved the drivers? Vista automatically downloaded the driver when I first installed it a year ago.

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