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This is WHY CREATIVE LABS SUCKS (X-FI no 64bit Drivers)!

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Originally posted by: BikeDude
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: Phil
You = dumbass for not checking first.

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well said
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Congratulations you two. That's the same kind of moronic remarks people made when Creative users wanted Win2k device drivers after the Win2k launch. 🙁
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Win2K required a major shift in how drivers were written, going from VXD to WDM. The 64bit shift is much simplier(the API's haven't been changed, for one thing) so it shouldn't be this hard for Creative to have driver parity. Nvidia and ATI are already doing it for their graphics drivers.
 
Originally posted by: P226
I always buy top of the line (look at my system specs) but is this worth upgrading to?.....Its about having not performance right!!!....jk
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Your link doesn't work.
 
Doubleplus so since the X-Fi is a hardware enthusiat's card, the same kind of person who is most likely to be running XP64. There's really no good reason why there aren't drivers for XP64 right now.
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A grand total of ZERO "enthusiast's" apps worth switching for would seem to be a pretty valid reason to me. There is no reason at all any enthusiast should be using XP64 beyond just wanting to screw around with it, and that would not be reason enough for me if I was a company to commit major resources for 64bit driver development. 64bit is a business/research targetted feature currently, and sound cards are not needed for those. I'd much rather see Creative spend their time getting the highend X-Fi cards to market and refining their 32bit drivers before they waste their time catering to a market that needs no support at this point in time.
 
Originally posted by: Pariah
Doubleplus so since the X-Fi is a hardware enthusiat's card, the same kind of person who is most likely to be running XP64. There's really no good reason why there aren't drivers for XP64 right now.
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A grand total of ZERO "enthusiast's" apps worth switching for would seem to be a pretty valid reason to me. There is no reason at all any enthusiast should be using XP64 beyond just wanting to screw around with it, and that would not be reason enough for me if I was a company to commit major resources for 64bit driver development. 64bit is a business/research targetted feature currently, and sound cards are not needed for those. I'd much rather see Creative spend their time getting the highend X-Fi cards to market and refining their 32bit drivers before they waste their time catering to a market that needs no support at this point in time.
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You know what buddy? Screw you.😛 I'm using XP64 right now and I rather enjoy it.
 
Windows x64 is pointless unless you actually use 64bit apps going from windows x64 from windows 32bit will not give you performance increase. virge your dum for running windows x64 unless you run 64bit programs. Windows x64 was made to support 64bit apps that is all.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Win2K required a major shift in how drivers were written, going from VXD to WDM.
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WDM resembles NT drivers to a great extent. Creative already had NT4 drivers at this point... nVidia were ready at Win2k's launch, and I doubt their task was any easier. Au contraire! (MS made many changes to DirectX going from NT4 to Win2k)
 
Originally posted by: w00t
Windows x64 is pointless unless you actually use 64bit apps going from windows x64 from windows 32bit will not give you performance increase.
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Well... 32-bit apps like Photoshop will be able to address twice as much virtual memory as they get under 32-bit XP. Same goes for any memory hungry app marked as capable of 4GB address space. (just a linker switch)

But what point did your comment serve? Why couldn't you simply ask the OP why he uses a 64-bit OS instead of assuming right off the bat that he has no need to do so?
 
Originally posted by: Pariah
I'd much rather see Creative spend their time getting the highend X-Fi cards to market and refining their 32bit drivers before they waste their time catering to a market that needs no support at this point in time.
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:thumbsup:

BTW I've marked this one down as it is one of the few times I've agreed with you on anything 😀
 
Don't worry, there will be 64 bit drivers available for the X-fi soon. And in a few years it becomes stable enough too 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Kyanzes
Don't worry, there will be 64 bit drivers available for the X-fi soon. And in a few years it becomes stable enough too 🙂
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Oddly enough, isn't that about the time frame when Vista SP2 comes out with all the security and bug fixes?
 
Originally posted by: Darkstar757
Originally posted by: Phil
You = dumbass for not checking first.

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You should be slapped
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Sorry, but I would have to agree with him. You can't curse a company because you didn't do your research when buying a $200 product.
Tas.
 
Even the drivers Creative DOES write are terrible. I'm really considering switching to another sound card sometime soon. This SB Live 5.1 is certainly aging, and I don't intend to deal with another Creative product.
 
Originally posted by: w00t
Windows x64 is pointless unless you actually use 64bit apps going from windows x64 from windows 32bit will not give you performance increase. virge your dum for running windows x64 unless you run 64bit programs. Windows x64 was made to support 64bit apps that is all.
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*dumb
 
Darkstar757 if CLabs sucks in IYO because the X-FI has no 64bit Drivers thren your way off base cause they been sucking way before that 😛
 
Originally posted by: Pariah
A grand total of ZERO "enthusiast's" apps worth switching for would seem to be a pretty valid reason to me.
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FarCry 64-bit edition made me switch. Well, I shouldn't say switch rather than create another partition.

Yeah, bought a x-fi card and actually installed the drivers from the disc on my x64 OS only to be prompted upon reboot that my soundcard didn't exist. It wasn't until then I realized there were no x64 drivers.

It's bad enough they don't exsist but they don't even prompt you even you insert the disc and try to install the drivers, lol. It's not a major concern with me. If I want to play FarCry, I'll just enable onboard sound and disable it in the WinXP Pro device manager.

In defense to the original poster, us enthusiasts aren't used to looking at the side of the box! Besides, I knew it would run under WinXP 32-bit and x64 is an after thought for me. I might have checked the box if x64 was my sole OS but I more than likely would have assumed they'd support it. All of my other hardware as x64 driver even my printer which is brand new to the market.
 
Originally posted by: Darkstar757
Ok


So I go to best buy over the weekend to get the new X-FI sound card. I get home and install the card, I got to the creative web site to find the 64bit drivers because since they have audigy drivers I just know they have them for the newer card X-FI. Lo and behold these asshats have not written 64bit drivers yet. WTF this is a brand new 200 plus dollar sound card and you have no F&Vcking Drivers. I was so pissed I posted on there forum and guess what my thread was deleted and I was not even the least bit nasy in it. So after this im like Fsck Creative Labs and the first company that offers something that competes with the Audigy and has 64bit drivers I am go.

Errrrr

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That is why I always check and or download the driver before I buy any new product for my PC. I think this would have saved you some headache. As for what to do with the sound card: It does not make sence to hang on to this card and wait for drivers to be realeased since creative is slower than a snail with arthritis when it comes to driver realeses. I would return it to Worst Buy and get my money back. When 64bit drivers are avalable, the X-FI should be much cheaper. I would head back to the store and re-purchase it for a lower price at a future date.
 
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