Archaea
[H]F Junkie
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2004
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I'm just flat out tired of Creative, and there is no other option for Intel gamers.
I'm tired of calling their tech support for help, and realizing on EVERY occassion that I know more about PC's and getting the card setup than they do.
I'm tired of the bloatware drivers and the two hour installs upon formating.
I'm tired of crappy EAX support that may or may not work in any given game
I'm tired of non dolby digital output even though they've said for the last three generations of cards that they all had it.
I've bought nearly every Creative card there has been along the way. I've never been happy with the card after the days of AWE64.
Sound Blaster Live, 4.1 couldn't get digital sound to work at all to my home receiver
Sound Blaster X-Gamer 5.1 couldn't get digital sound to work through my Denon Home Receiver even though it's supposedly 5.1 Called in to Creative, we don't support 5.1 in games...WELL WHY DID YOU NAME IT THAT?
Sound Blaster Audigy...NOW here we go THX, 5.1 Optical out. This will finally support 5.1 in games on my home theatre system. No, it didn't called customer support, they said it should in the next revision.
Bought the Audigy 2 ZS platinum. all the fixings. Finally a card that should be able to play my games in dolby digital on my reciever. It says it supports it, and DTS, and everything else. Plug it into my Denon 5700. Can't get anything other than pro-logic, except in movies. No games support it. Called Tech support, they say it must be the games issue. DIg around on the internet. The Creative jerk-offs have been feeding me a line of BS the whole time. Their card doesn't actually support dolby digital in games through the optical out. You have to use the analog lines. Fine. I buy 3 sets of analog lines to hook into the external in on my amp. I load up Far Cry, and Doom3. NEITHER GAME WILL RECOGNIZE I HAVE A CARD THAT CAN EVEN USE DOLBY DIGITAL SOUND OUTPUT. THE OPTIONS ARE GRAYED OUT.
I HATE CREATIVE. I HATE WORSE THAT I'VE spent hundreds of dollars on their cards thorughout the years, to false advertising and empty promises. DIE CREATIVE DIE!
I've had the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum for about 6 months now. The reason I'm just now ranting is because my audigy external drive fell off the desk about 2 feet to the floor, and broke. WTH? 2 feet. Seriously. The volume knob, and the microphone knob broke completely off. My friend bumped the unit and it fell off my short desk and broke. 2 feet. That's horrible quality. NO reason for a 220 dollar setup to be breakable like that. I dont have a single other home theatre component I've ever been so upset with over my horrible Creative EXP.
I don't really have anything I'm trying to accomplish through this post, just venting. I feel better. Thanks.
I'm tired of calling their tech support for help, and realizing on EVERY occassion that I know more about PC's and getting the card setup than they do.
I'm tired of the bloatware drivers and the two hour installs upon formating.
I'm tired of crappy EAX support that may or may not work in any given game
I'm tired of non dolby digital output even though they've said for the last three generations of cards that they all had it.
I've bought nearly every Creative card there has been along the way. I've never been happy with the card after the days of AWE64.
Sound Blaster Live, 4.1 couldn't get digital sound to work at all to my home receiver
Sound Blaster X-Gamer 5.1 couldn't get digital sound to work through my Denon Home Receiver even though it's supposedly 5.1 Called in to Creative, we don't support 5.1 in games...WELL WHY DID YOU NAME IT THAT?
Sound Blaster Audigy...NOW here we go THX, 5.1 Optical out. This will finally support 5.1 in games on my home theatre system. No, it didn't called customer support, they said it should in the next revision.
Bought the Audigy 2 ZS platinum. all the fixings. Finally a card that should be able to play my games in dolby digital on my reciever. It says it supports it, and DTS, and everything else. Plug it into my Denon 5700. Can't get anything other than pro-logic, except in movies. No games support it. Called Tech support, they say it must be the games issue. DIg around on the internet. The Creative jerk-offs have been feeding me a line of BS the whole time. Their card doesn't actually support dolby digital in games through the optical out. You have to use the analog lines. Fine. I buy 3 sets of analog lines to hook into the external in on my amp. I load up Far Cry, and Doom3. NEITHER GAME WILL RECOGNIZE I HAVE A CARD THAT CAN EVEN USE DOLBY DIGITAL SOUND OUTPUT. THE OPTIONS ARE GRAYED OUT.
I HATE CREATIVE. I HATE WORSE THAT I'VE spent hundreds of dollars on their cards thorughout the years, to false advertising and empty promises. DIE CREATIVE DIE!
I've had the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum for about 6 months now. The reason I'm just now ranting is because my audigy external drive fell off the desk about 2 feet to the floor, and broke. WTH? 2 feet. Seriously. The volume knob, and the microphone knob broke completely off. My friend bumped the unit and it fell off my short desk and broke. 2 feet. That's horrible quality. NO reason for a 220 dollar setup to be breakable like that. I dont have a single other home theatre component I've ever been so upset with over my horrible Creative EXP.
I don't really have anything I'm trying to accomplish through this post, just venting. I feel better. Thanks.