[wombar]

I stopped buying any creative products quite a few years ago because of their shoddy drivers and terrible support. I bought a Soundblaster Platinum and had no end of trouble getting the front panel to work properly in XP because of their drivers.

Since then, I've bought a Terratec DMX6Fire that has performed admirably and I doubt I'll ever buy another Creative product ever again after seeing that thread. I agree the guy shouldn't be enabling features that weren't made for the cards, but at the end of the day, he was providing working drivers where Creative weren't.

If they had perfectly performing drivers, I could see their point, but if they can't even do that, don't stir up a hornets nest until you've got a product that actually works. One things for sure, I will not recommend any kind of creative product to people who ask me, especially after seeing that thread.