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The Conclusion: Creative Backs Down Against Driver Modder, Reinstates Posts

The story of Daniel_K vs. Creative reaches a temporary conclusion as Creative reinstates the deleted forum posts by Daniel that helped other users get their sound cards working under Vista. The company did this as a result of angry forum and blog posts (some here as well), mostly all siding with Daniel. More »

4:30 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Jason Chen
8,997 views, 32 comments

corporate greed

Creative Presents Cease-and-Desist Note to Developer Hero

After Vista's release, Creative's Audigy Sound Blaster series lost a lot of their in-built functionality. Developer, good-guy and all around hero, Daniel_K stepped up to the challenge, putting together his own drivers and asking for non-obligatory donations in recognition of his effort. Daniel_K's drivers restored functionality, and added some extra features to boot. That's great news, right? Apparently not; Creative is pissed. More »

12:00 PM on Sat Mar 29 2008
By Haroon Malik
19,455 views, 105 comments

peripherals

Creative's X-Fi Sound Card Gets Zapped into ExpressCard Format

Sound Blaster fans will soon be able to get Creative's flagship sound card in ExpressCard format. The new X-Fi Xtreme Audio will boost your notebook's crap sound system to something a little more suitable for watching your DVDs or playing games. A nice add-on, especially if you have a Media Center lappie. No word on pricing yet, though from the looks of the pics, it looks like it'll be released sooner than later. – Louis Ramirez More »

6:43 PM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Louis Ramirez
5,791 views, 4 comments

Latest by Worf: Now to see if they'll fix their drivers. Or gimp out on Vista drivers. Or fix it so they don't only output 48kHz audio, forcing everything to be resampled (even CD audio...) I'm stuck using USB audio drives as my computer more »