This thread prompted me to make this poll post.
As far back as i can remember, and trust me that's a long time. Creative has had only one really good sound card. Sound Blaster 16 anyone? Everything since then has sucked, and continued to suck more and more every time they make a new version. Oh of course they add new features. The cards can play X Million simultaneous voices now, and they have 128bit DAC and blah blah blah. How about a driver set that doesn't suck and bloat the life out of my system, and actual hardware features that work as intended. I can't remember the last time I actually got 3D sound out of my creative sound cards if ever.
Here's the list of cards that I have owned from Creative:
Sound Blaster
Sound Blaster 16 (Multiple)
Sound Blaster Live
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
I gave up after the Audigy still didn't do the basic things that I thought a sound card should do for more than $200 dollars and didn't even do the things that were advertized on the box.
As far back as i can remember, and trust me that's a long time. Creative has had only one really good sound card. Sound Blaster 16 anyone? Everything since then has sucked, and continued to suck more and more every time they make a new version. Oh of course they add new features. The cards can play X Million simultaneous voices now, and they have 128bit DAC and blah blah blah. How about a driver set that doesn't suck and bloat the life out of my system, and actual hardware features that work as intended. I can't remember the last time I actually got 3D sound out of my creative sound cards if ever.
Here's the list of cards that I have owned from Creative:
Sound Blaster
Sound Blaster 16 (Multiple)
Sound Blaster Live
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
I gave up after the Audigy still didn't do the basic things that I thought a sound card should do for more than $200 dollars and didn't even do the things that were advertized on the box.