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  1. September 26th, 2003, 04:44 PM #1
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    flogging creative

    Oh, let's just bash Creative a bit more, shall we? They have yet to release drivers for the Live! series that are trouble free and really deliver all the functionality of their drivers for Win9x and even 2000. Took 'em a disgustingly long time even to release a crappy version of Liveware for XP. And how about the months and months when you had to install software (which didn't work) off the CD and then download and install something like a 20 MB patch to get it to work!

    Seems to me this is yet another example of a vendor intentionally crippling the functionality of an older product to move you upscale. Other than the aforementioned odious patch, I have always found the Audigy and above to work well with XP. 'Course a generic CMI card or, better yet a Hercules Fortissimo III deliver better bang for the buck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb
    Oh, let's just bash Creative a bit more, shall we? They have yet to release drivers for the Live! series that are trouble free and really deliver all the functionality of their drivers for Win9x and even 2000. Took 'em a disgustingly long time even to release a crappy version of Liveware for XP. And how about the months and months when you had to install software (which didn't work) off the CD and then download and install something like a 20 MB patch to get it to work!

    Seems to me this is yet another example of a vendor intentionally crippling the functionality of an older product to move you upscale. Other than the aforementioned odious patch, I have always found the Audigy and above to work well with XP. 'Course a generic CMI card or, better yet a Hercules Fortissimo III deliver better bang for the buck.
    Well, I got to tell you that the only reason I haven't upgraded to an Audigy card from a Live Value card is because My Live card under XP works great! Sound is great, no issues with the software at all. Then again I do not use any of the software except the drivers themself and the mixer settings.
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  3. September 26th, 2003, 05:59 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Diver01
    Well, I got to tell you that the only reason I haven't upgraded to an Audigy card from a Live Value card is because My Live card under XP works great! Sound is great, no issues with the software at all. Then again I do not use any of the software except the drivers themself and the mixer settings.
    I had many issues with the PCI and later the Live series with pops, stutters and various other ramifications. I paid the price for a Wilamont Game Theater XP, and never looked back. Works slick with XP and doesn't hog the resources. i don't consider Creative a viable alternative, now.
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