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Boycott Creative *UPDATE*

For those of you that don’t know, Creative is a company that manufacturers sound cards. If you wanted a good sound card, typically you went with Creative. For a while now, however, Creative as been getting worse and worse to the point where their products have become not much more than expansive crap; but they still dominate the sound card market. The main problem has been their drivers. Even with XP, their drivers were crap.

Back when I built my first desktop, I went to the local Staples and bought a Creative sound card. Nothing special, just a regular 24bit 5.1 sound card. As I have always done when I get a piece of hardware, I went online to get the latest drivers. However, I couldn’t find drivers for the specific model I had, so I got the drivers for the root model that should have worked. The only problem was they didn’t. Turns out the sound card I bought was a special model that was apparently only sold in stores like Staples because it had been discontinued; a model which wasn’t supported with new drivers on their website. They didn’t even have old drivers on the website, so I was forced to use the ones off the CD.

Strike one for Creative.

So I used the drivers from the CD and all was well. Then one day, for no reason, I started getting a crackling noise. I uninstalled the drivers, removed the card and then reinstalled everything. That did not fix the problem, and since I couldn’t get updated drivers, I now had a useless sound card.

Strike two for Creative.

Now, we have strike three.

Creative’s drivers for Vista where so crappy that it took one of their customers to make them work correctly. This one man did what the entire Creative driver team couldn’t, he made drivers that worked. Ha. So what did Creative do? Embrace him? Offer him a job? Ask him what he did to make them work so they could fix their own drivers?

Nope. They told him to stop. This in turn has spawned many angry replies from customers that where only still using their Creative sound cards on Vista because of this one man. Many said they would never use a Creative product again and even started a new thread on the Creative forums with the title, “Post here if your done with Creative.“

I, for one, was done with Creative before this. A couple of months ago when I was browsing Newegg to price parts for a new computer, I chose not to go with Creative and instead with an Asus card.

Bye Creative.

*UPDATE* As a result of the backlash Creative has gotten over this, they have backed down and even reinstated all the posts made by Daniel_K.