I have read that creative (what sh.theads) has disabled many features on that card. 10 - Auzentech X-Fi Prelude driver v1.1 - Auzentech X-Fi Forte driver. Im about to purchase the creative X-Fi xtreme audio, PCI-E or regular version. 1 - Creative SB X-Fi Titanium series driver. Appearantly Soundblaster driver modder Daniel Kawakami or better known as Creatives DanielK is backing off his deal with providing modded software for all Creative sound cards for. After tolerating the distribution of his unofficial drivers for a time, Creative's vice president of corporate communications, Phil O'Shaughnessy, ultimately asked him to stop, and accused him of "stealing their goods." O'Shaughnessy also wrote that whether or not it cripples its Vista drivers is a "business decision that only we have the right to make. 1 - Creative SB X-Fi OEM SB077x series driver. Kawakami's expertise allowed him to enable advanced features in sound cards that Creative advertised as Vista-compatible, but which did not perform as well under that operating system as they do under Windows XP. ![]() ![]() "I'm NOT a cracker, a hacker, just an enthusiast modder with basic assembly knowledge and very persistent." "My name is Daniel Kawakami and I'm Brazilian," he writes. Daniel_K, the Creative Labs fan who fixed the company's broken Vista sound card drivers only to be threatened by the corporate brass, just e-mailed with his side of the story.
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