Creative com péssimas Drives [BOMBÁSTICO]

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Creative threatens to legally pursue a modder

Guilty for improving their products

It’s a well known fact that Creative hasn’t been the most beloved driver supplier, but this time they really stepped on their own toes. Daniel Kawakami, a.k.a. Daniel_K, has been a godsend to many owners of Creative’s products, since he succeeded where Creative’s driver team failed – and that’s making quality drivers (although functional drivers might be a better description). So, Creative stems his efforts by threatening legal action.

X-Fi cards are being sold with a Vista Compatible logo but many X-Fi customers quickly realize that Vista Almost-Compatible is the term that should have been used and would, in fact, portray this situation. Heck, it would’ve at least been honest.

Creative’s legal mumbo-jumbo aside, one would think that improving the drivers for free would benefit Creative – but one would be wrong. Daniel_K found out that Creative has, through their drivers, imposed limitations on their own hardware and thus he lifted them. He managed to enable X-Fi’s software-based Audio Crystalizer feature on Audigy cards, activate Dolby Digital Live on X-Fi cards, and removed a purposeful bug where Live!/Live! 5.1 would sound distorted in Vista.

Now, why would Creative do that? The answer is simple – although their slightly older equipment will support newer features, they still want you to buy their new cards. Creative even mentioned that what they enable/disable is their own business, but this time they’re stepping on their customers’ toes, because this is no longer an issue of features but compatibility. We bought the products, we demand drivers!

This brings us to Linux support. At one point Creative said Linux drivers for X-Fi were delayed due to increased need for human resources on X-Fi Vista compatibility work, but some job they did. Not only is X-Fi still buggy in Vista, but the “compatibility work” has, it seems, turned out to be driver crippling work. Well, Creative better get creative in solving this mess, because they’re the only company that I’m aware of that tricks their users into buying new products by creating artificial incompatibility. As for Daniel_K, we wish him the best of luck.

You can read more here, check out what some users did to their X-Fi’s here, and read the explanatory mail by Daniel_K here.

Fonte: Fudzilla

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Creative in boiling water

Because hot water doesn’t paint the picture

It’s been a couple of days since Creative has started putting a bad face on their company (although some might argue that it’s been going on for years now). However, I personally have never seen such an outrage towards the company shown by their most loyal customers.

Their forums are bursting with numerous disgruntled customers who claim they’ll never do business with the company again. A lot of them list an impressive number of soundcards that they’ve bought from Creative through the years, as far back as the original 8bit ISA Sound Blaster. A website www.boycottcreative.com was also started, probably by the same customers.

Many forum users praise Daniel_K as a savior, as opposed to the company that should have taken on that role, and was legally obliged to do so. Instead, the company has the nerve to announce the X-Fi2 launch, without making X-Fi run properly in Vista. Of course, X-Fi2 will also feature Vista Compatible sticker, just like its predecessor did.

It’s a well known fact that companies like ATI and Nvidia support their older products, and since Creative failed in that department too, Creative’s (former) customers made sure to point that out several times. Well, when they’re right, they’re right, but it is unlikely that the company will go bankrupt because of just one man, who just tried to help. Still, if Creative keeps walking this path, anything might happen.

Fonte: Fudzilla

É tudo uma questão de mercado, mas será que a Creative agiu correctamente?!?!?! claro que não e o descontentamento por parte dos consumidores da marca é enorme... logo se vê como acabará esta história!