- Dec 22, 2005
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I have been reading about Vista and the changes Microsoft has made to the audio system. From what I am reading it sounds like current high end consumer sound cards (such as the X-fi) won't even have hardware accelleration anymore.
Given Creatives track record of very poor driver support, and releasing "new" hardware only to enable functionality they could have in previous hardware, I have to wonder - are Creative X-fi cards about to be worth a whole lot less when (if) Vista takes hold? Is it possible Creative will leave the X-fi series crippled and release a new series to replace them?
If so maybe it's a good idea to sell our X-fi cards before they completely devalue?
Given Creatives track record of very poor driver support, and releasing "new" hardware only to enable functionality they could have in previous hardware, I have to wonder - are Creative X-fi cards about to be worth a whole lot less when (if) Vista takes hold? Is it possible Creative will leave the X-fi series crippled and release a new series to replace them?
If so maybe it's a good idea to sell our X-fi cards before they completely devalue?