In article <47f08daf@news.povray.org>, initialsurname@sentech says...
> 
> "Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] rraznet> wrote in message
> news:MPG.225a3139b1ec29f598a135@news.povray.org...
> 
> > Basically, one guy figured out that Creative Labs has been lying about
> > incompatibility between some cards and Vista, that they could fix it
> > over night, if they wanted to
> 
> I'm really not happy with creative at the Moment.
> 
> I have an X-fi card and am running Windows 2000. According to Creative, t
he
> X-Fi drivers don't work on 2000. Actually, they do, perfectly. The only
> problem is that there's an explicit check for XP somewhere in the install
er.
> 
> I have the X-Fi working on 2000, because someone found out how to disable
> that check.
> 
> Now, is there any way to get working drivers for the X-Fi in Vista?
> 
After about the first 900+ posts from people telling them they have 
destroyed and/or thrown away their cards, and would never buy anything 
from them again, they reinstated the threads specific to *some* of the 
cards. The X-Fi is probably not one of them, since its newer. So, the 
answer would be, "Not until Creative gets their heads out of their asses 
and fixes the bugs themselves, which they clearly don't intend to so, 
since one of their comments was *specifically* that if they 'chose not 
to release features with one card that come with another, its our right 
to do so'." In other words, your X-Fi is a brick on Vista, because they 
***wanted*** it to be a brick, and you will have to buy their 
"patch/fix/addon" to fix it. Maybe the drivers that are not available 
again also cover it too, but.. who knows.

Everyone, except some morons that fail to grasp the fact that Creative 
may be in violation of their *own* EULA by failing to provide the 
functionality, not to mention Warp's point, is saying, "Too little, too 
late.", and crying for Creative to be hoisted on a pittard for, "false 
advertising", since their own boxes "claim" all sorts of features that 
the cards are "supposed" to have, some of which Creative now admits it 
doesn't want working in Vista at this point, and a lot that just doesn't 
work.

All in all, I thought Microsoft shot itself in the foot a few times 
recently, including with the release of Vista, but they couldn't top 
this if Gates got drunk tomorrow some place and admitted in front of TV 
cameras that he intentionally broke the law and tried to screw his 
customers the entire time he was in charge.

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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