Anyone heard about Creative Labs yet?

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

As taken from another site:


http://forums.creative.com/creativel...read.id=116332


90 pages of people complaining


Cliff Notes - A guy named Daniel_K used existing Creative Labs drivers and modified them to work on Vista as Creative Labs has (what appears to be) intentionally crippled older sound cards, forcing people to purchase new ones for Vista. Even cards that claimed "Vista Ready" truly did not work on Vista. Everyone on the forums was ranting and raving about Daniel_K's drivers as they actually worked, then Creative Labs threatened to sue him.

[Black Horse]

Vista sucks....


Now apparently they have some suckage assistance?

Link no worky, don't have top secret clearance or something.

[cobrajoe]

IT's a X-File
only Mulder or Scully can read it, Or the smoking man:smokin:
:lol::lol:

[Walter]

Vista does not seem to be taking off as fast as some would think. I ordered a new laptop through work (ie not mine personally, but for work use) and it had the little sticker on there "Microsoft Vista" but XP was loaded on it. This unit was brand spanking new. I guess most of the programs we use through work are not compatible with Vista.

[Silver Bullet]

Vista sucks....


Now apparently they have some suckage assistance?

Link no worky, don't have top secret clearance or something.

I have Vista for a year now and have had no problems...:confused:

[HRSEPWR]

I have Vista for a year now and have had no problems...:confused:


Just bought a computer two weeks ago, had vista on it for one day, then immediately loaded XP... XP was 10 times faster, I hate Vista. :mad:

[jdubya]

Vista just isn't ready yet. Even after loading SP1 I still have problem with my work Laptop. I've been testing it for about 6 months and there is no way our company will ever switch to it. We'll wait for the next version. Vista is to Xp what Windows ME was to Windows 98.

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Here's the link http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=116332

Basically Creative has just made a huge screw up and being the top sound card maker they've really screwed a LOT of people.

[mach_u]

Vista just isn't ready yet. Even after loading SP1 I still have problem with my work Laptop. I've been testing it for about 6 months and there is no way our company will ever switch to it. We'll wait for the next version. Vista is to Xp what Windows ME was to Windows 98.
:agree: I am not a fan of Vista at all. We have recommended to every one of our clients that they stick with XP and those that have insisted, have not been happy with their decision. As for Creative Labs, that does suck that they would do that. I know one thing though - I absolutely LOVE my Creative Labs X-Fi Fatal1ty card. :bigthumb

[Silver Bullet]

Ok, maybe I need to switch XP. So what is the best way to do it? How much will it cost? Will I lose what I have stored on here? I'm not the most computer savy...;)

[Waffles]

[QUOTE=Black Horse;362404]Vista sucks....QUOTE]

x2... that's all.

[Black Horse]

One of the biggest problems with Vista is it is not backwards compatible with a lot of your current software/programs......probably to make you buy everything all over again.

[Pops Fun]

Hi
I built a new machine a couple months ago dual processors etc. loaded vista fought for a week then loaded XP ...... I have vista on my lap top ..came on it not bad but maybe a little slower... so now I have 2 xp 3 xp machines and one vista??? Oh well!!

Creative... that sucks that they would screw there customers....

Steve

[02mingryGT]

I have Vista for a year now and have had no problems...:confused:

That's probably because your not running anything that is incompatible with it. Most of Vista's and Windows 95, 98, ME and XP's problems have been with second party software or something some jack ball downloaded off the internet. I'll probably wait for another year to get Vista and by then all the second party software should be compliant.

I blame Microsoft for not being more open about their code which would allow the second parties the ability to make a more compatible product.

[mach_u]

Ok, maybe I need to switch XP. So what is the best way to do it? How much will it cost? Will I lose what I have stored on here? I'm not the most computer savy...;)
You would have to wipe out the current operating system and it just depends on the manufacturer and whether or not they have drivers/software compatible with XP. You may want to check with the manufacture first. If so, you would just need to pick up a copy of XP, backup your files and go from there. Cost would run you $85-$140 for the software depending on whether you went with XP Home or Pro.

[Carl]

I was totally against Vista until I got my new laptop. It has Vista Home Premium on it, I did upgrade to 2GB of RAM and I haven't had any problems yet either.
I read almost 40+ pages of the thread on CL's forums...wow...totally uncalled for on their part.

But on a more intersting note...anybody noticed that the CL stock has dropped since this came about?!

[Mista Bone]

took me forever to convert to XP Home from Win98SE, you think I'm gonna try Vista?

I'll own a Mustang before that!