Creative released extremely limited drivers for Vista, as a result, card owners who upgraded to vista lost many of the 'premium features' that were unique to their card.
A Brazilian hobbiest programmer analysed the drivers, and found that the drivers were deliberately deactivated the features on vista. He hacked the drivers to remove the OS check, and found that the drivers worked just as well as on XP. While he was digging inside the drivers, he also fixed a couple of bugs that creative had refused to do so.
He eventually got into trouble, and Creative tried to sue him, because he discovered that all the different 'advanced premium' features that differentiated the whole family of soundblaster variants was simply switches in the driver software. When he published his 'fixed' drivers he simply deactivated all the 'feature' switches, so that a base-model soundblaster card, would be detected as, and work as a top-of-the-range model.
For all you guys who dont know better: There is no Windows 7.
Go to MSCONFIG, enable verbose booting, restart your system and tell me what you see.
Lol windows 8.. They're going a weird place with the UI.
If it's Windows 7 underneath but that UI on the top, OK. As long as I can fully disable that shit UI.
Any OS with UAC is trash.
They will have to pry XP from my cold, dead hard drive.
BTW, new PC games are going to stop including XP support.
Creative released extremely limited drivers for Vista, as a result, card owners who upgraded to vista lost many of the 'premium features' that were unique to their card.
A Brazilian hobbiest programmer analysed the drivers, and found that the drivers were deliberately deactivated the features on vista. He hacked the drivers to remove the OS check, and found that the drivers worked just as well as on XP. While he was digging inside the drivers, he also fixed a couple of bugs that creative had refused to do so.
He eventually got into trouble, and Creative tried to sue him, because he discovered that all the different 'advanced premium' features that differentiated the whole family of soundblaster variants was simply switches in the driver software. When he published his 'fixed' drivers he simply deactivated all the 'feature' switches, so that a base-model soundblaster card, would be detected as, and work as a top-of-the-range model.
I tried a myriad of the "modified SB drivers when I changed to Vista in 2008. NONE worked with my old SB Live! card.
The kX Audio Driver works fine with the couple of soundblasters I have (a Live! and a Live! 5.1).
I remember trying those with no success. I tried a ton of modified drivers...none worked.
From my experience the dumb people skipped Vista and complain about it to this day, mostly because of their ignorance.
No, the imbeciles used Vista knowing it was a pile of crap just so they could adopt a childishly superior attitude about using it. It's like eating soup with a fork, doing it doesn't make you noble or enlightened, it just shows that you have too much time to kill and no common sense.
By default 'swap front & rear' is toggled ON in the kX Manager, which was the only problem I had IIRC.I remember trying those with no success.
Two misinformed posters.Then the same could be said about Win7 since they're the same O/S....
Two misinformed posters.
Then inform me. Unlike most here, I actually benchmarked both O/Ss, and there wasn't enough difference between them to be worth mentioning.
who gives a shit about benchmarking os's? and everyone knows vista is pos and uses tons of ram to do nothing.. windows 7 is great, windows 8 is windows 7 with 3 tweaks.. is it even for sale?