HAL_404
[H]ard|Gawd
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you're right, I removed it ,,, but their drivers still suck windNothing says helpful like someone who responds to other people's problems by patting themself on the back.
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you're right, I removed it ,,, but their drivers still suck windNothing says helpful like someone who responds to other people's problems by patting themself on the back.
Anyone who doesn't like garbage onboard sound. Why would you not?Seriously. Who uses a sound card anymore?
You're forgetting something else. Creative was going to start charging people for drivers and driver updates. They only backed off after massive backlash. This was during the time of the Live! cards. Even trying to do that was more than enough to turn me off Creative and I've never owned another one of their products since.Not really. Creative got a reputation for bad drivers in the Windows 98 / Sound Blaster Live! era, and early XP era, and have never really been able to live that down. They started getting their act together about 15 years ago and their drivers are actually very good now. There have been some issues in the last couple of years that helped to perpetuate their reputation for bad drivers, even though none of it was their fault. The Windows 10 1903 update for example made some significant changes to the way audio works in Windows 10, which caused most Creative sound cards to stop working. Many jumped to the conclusion that Creative did something wrong, when it was in-fact purely a Microsoft issue. Creative responded to the problem Microsoft caused by promptly releasing new drivers for every card they made going all the way back to the X-Fi series, including the earliest models which were released in mid 2005. Releasing new drivers for 15+ year old sound cards is what I would consider to be an example of good driver support, not bad driver support. Consider that Nvidia and AMD usually abandon support for cards when they are half that old.