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Reason No.20 not to install Win10. I guess I am stuck with that Win10 upgrade icon in the system tray for a full year!!!
Creatives drivers are the main reason I stopped buying their sound cards. After I did that I realized that onboard sound is now good enough that I'm not even sure I can tell a difference.
Come on, join the cheap side!
uninstall KB3035583 and the nag icon will disappear
I have not tried this driver because my Xfi Titanium hd is working. I cannot adjust anything because the creative console doesn't work but it works nonetheless. It sucks that the drivers are taking so long. Here is a link to some drivers you may want to look at. Make sure your card is supported.
http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=714135
I was, in the past, worries about the 2-5% cpu time the audio codex was using - older systems with less cores were being maxed out in some games. Nothing maxes out the 8350 (in my experience) I dont think anything is coded to use more then 4 cores sadly. So my need for a sound card has passed.
Hardware Audio acceleration hasn't been used in games since XP for the most part (Directsound and thus EAX, etc didn't carry on over to Vista and Win7, and almost no games use OpenAL), so that hasn't been the primary reason to get a sound card for a very long time.
In fairness, it's not clear from your quote that the *reason* hardware accelerated audio went away in Vista is because *Microsoft* killed it in the APIs, not because the vendors all unanimously decided to stop.