The Windows Vista driver probl

I can understand the frustration everyone has, but being frustrated doesn't really solve the problem now does it's? Many of you need to understand, that this is a new operating system and with any new operating system release, there will be issues and hardware problems until the third party developers are able to create working drivers for the hardware and software as well. Here's what makes creative look bad at the moment:?Creative is an extremely large company and they have been around for years. In fact, they were one of the first to market. Since... well.. I can remember as far back as Windows 3.x. You would think a company as large and advanced as Creative would have the research, money, time, developers, etc to be right on track with these drivers. Many other companies have pulled through for us. I have found drivers for all my hardware components except my Li've! 24-bit card. Well, I correct myself. I found drivers for this card on the creative website, but they were developed in 2005. Wait.... did I just say 2005? Hmm.
I thought about an alternate soundcard. I checked the Turtle Beach website, since I hear they make a good card. Unfortunately, there are no drivers available at all, whereas at least creative has released beta drivers. Perhaps it's just a pain to create drivers for Vista. Maybe some sort of bug in the operating system is complicating things. I duno. Is the problem vista or creative? ... wait a minute... let's go back. Last drivers released for my card was in 2005? hmm. And the drivers work if I go into F8 and disable drivers signature checking. I think the problem is Microsoft. They are trying to take over the world. We already should know that.

stgeorge wrote:
In Creative Labs' defense, the *only* reason EAX and direct access to the sound buffers were removed was strictly due to DRM and the wishes of Hollywood studios due to their irrational fears that everyone is a criminal until proven innocent.
But this was all known to every hardware manufacturer way back as early as WinHEC 2005 (about 20 months ago). Therefore, there is no excuse for not having non-beta drivers by now.
What?! You've got to be kidding me! DRM is causing us this trouble? OMFG. First DRM (Digital Rights Management, for those who don't know) keeps us from playing music by requiring licenses downloaded. Then, they make plans for "trusted computing" which will eventually require ALL video & audio to be approved before playing because they want to assume we are criminals and pirated the material. THEN the groundwork for Trusted Computing is put into Vista and now DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT IS KEEPING US FROM ENJOYING AUDIO IN GAMES, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP MUSIC TO THEIR GREEDY SELVES! DAMMIT!
Do you have any links discussing DRM & removal of the HAL (Hardware Acceleration Layer) from Vista? It would be an interesting read.
It certainly isn't Creative's fault for removal of hardware acceleration for most 3D games. Wow, it's the greedy Hollywood *******s... BUT, creative still should of had a more complete driver for release. They should of had CMSS working, bass boost & bass redirect options, etc!Message Edited by Cornflake on 02-2-200706:9 PM
Message Edited by Cornflake on 02-2-200706:20 PM
Message Edited by Cornflake on 02-2-200706:20 PM

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