Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

What kind of idiots run creative, I thought I would give Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium a try what a mistake. The help on this web site is crap. Try to get a manual u cant. Then the stupig how to when you hit disagree it has a problem. Nothing works including the card. I would whip a creative mother**bleep**ers ass. And I will register over and over just to post this.
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Did u try the manual? It does not work the chm file. I am not an idiot I have at least 9 computers in the house at this time. I delivered 3 boxes of parts to the local high school. Thos is the biggest POS computer hardware that I have ever purchased. My last three cards that I had workrd flawlessly. Turtle Beach DDL and the generic VIA chipset that comes with the MB. It is working but is creating way to much lag in Quake 3 the only game I play.
Its a shame some guy hacked the creative drivers and made them better. Shows you what kind of talent creative has or the lack of. I would not buy another creative product as long as I live and I buy a lot of pc parts. I am fixing to uninstall this card and would love to shove it up Fatilitys ass. The guy made it on quake and his name is on a POS that causes the system to lag. Not to say what kind of crap creative wants you to install. Why not just a clean drive with a console? To simple I guess.
Let me know if you get the manual to load. I would like to have it downloaded to refrence but thats to simple for the creative idiots. I can no longer keep paper copies of manuals I keep them on the pc for refrence. Seriously try the manual. It opens and the directory is there but know data in the main area. What a joke.

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    "- Streamlined the interface so it's easier to navigate (removed "modes" and have all controls available regardless what you want to use the card for)."
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    "- Better tie in with the Windows audio sub-system."
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    Creative's device drivers and software has always been a point of contention. You don't make the install discs available for download on your website for starters. This is a fascist move on your part. Your driver installation procedure and reliability is hit or miss. I personally have not had a lot of trouble with the drivers (only a few hiccups here and there) but i have read on the forums where all sorts of other people have (I'm not in disagreeing that their problems are partially their fault, but that's the price of running Windows instead of buying a Mac). My experience with your driver software suites over the years have been mostly (A) "When it works as expected it's sheer aural bliss beyond that of any other sound card in existence! THIS is why 'Sound Blaster Compatible' was what other companies put on their products, because Creative set the standard for everyone else to meet." but also sometimes (B) "everything installed and worked fine but now something is corrupt and not all the speakers have sound coming from them or the sound is all screwed up and the driver won't uninstall/reinstall/update correctly because it's corrupt and it's not deleting the driver files because windows has the files locked and safe mode isn't helping so now i have to physically remove the card from the PC and try to completely clean out my system of the Creative software. I can't believe they went after Daniel_K the way they did, i wish he'd come back and fix their drivers. Now which box did i put that install cd in...."
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    As i stated in my review, the only reason i bought a new sound card was because the motherboard I was purchasing had no PCI slots (I remember when motherboards stopped having ISA slots as well...). Before making my purchase I read. I read a lot. I read about the changes you made with the X-Fi Titanium HD and then the Recon3D, and the more i read the more a feeling of apprehension began to take hold. Then i got to reading about the Z-series and read about some of the positive changes between it and the Recon3D line of cards and I became a bit more hopeful.
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    I've had my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series installed for just over a week now. Everything sounds precise and as it should when you have a quality piece of hardware paired with quality software. Directional audio in games comes from all speakers appropriately and not excessively from the front center speaker unless it's supposed to. Ambient music floats through the air all through out the day creating that familiar feeling of sheer aural bliss as it did before. The only downside is I'm getting to experience the problems other people have with this card (strange loud static-like warble EMI type noise coming from speakers, unaffected by windows volume control) but I have found a work around that I'm using on the rare occasion this happens (disable the device in device manager, re-enable device in device manager).
    Chances are what i've written above is perhaps an opening soliloquy of the requiem for the Creative Sound Blaster, the card that defined an industry and the company that turned it's back on it. I don't expect anything to come from this letter and I don't expect a meaningful reply from you. You'll probably write me justifying your decisions you've made with your product line and offer some false sincerity about how you are happy i am enjoying my price-gouged discontinued soundcard i had to buy off e-bay because your current line of products are not a step back in your eyes because of the profits they turn. This generation of customers who buy your Platinum HD, or Reco3D or Z-series line of cards probably oblivious to what they are missing out on (through no fault of their own), funny how the bliss of ignorance works and lines your pockets...
    It saddens me that i had to buy a discontinued product off e-bay because it's a better product than what your company currently offers. I wish this wasn't the way things turned out. When you dropped the fun presets and finite control of the EAX effects during the transition from the Audigy to the X-Fi line of cards I noticed but since they were not the main reason I owned a Creative card I tolerated it. But now you've gone and ruined the features that were the reasons i bought Creative cards, and this I will not oblige.
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    @To the OP:
    I own a X-Fi Elite Pro for the past 8 years now.
    Since there, this card has faithfullly seen me through 3 major PC upgrades.
    I'm currently at a point where, very sadly, much of what you've described is also weighing on my decision to not go for a Z line.
    @Creative:
    I do hope you're listening and can come up with a solution to a simply design feature - namely a fully working Stereo Surround, like the one that was available in the X-Fi line of cards via CMSS-3D.
    Regards,

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