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    Exclamation Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Ok, ok you could well ask "yeah, but what year?"

    ...but if you're waiting for drivers from the guys at creative (or 1 guy possibly) then bookmark this page:

    http://support.creative.com/KB/showa...sid=61105&h=13
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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    I wonder what features they'll disable with their windows 8 drivers

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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    I pulled my XFi Titanium a few months ago to give a little more airflow for my gfx cards.....haven't missed it in the slightest and the on-board (Realtek) is working fine with Windows 8 OOTB drivers.
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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN View Post
    I wonder what features they'll disable with their windows 8 drivers
    Well for me it was er.. "sound" - the sound disappearing on reboot bug came back.

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    I pulled my XFi Titanium a few months ago to give a little more airflow for my gfx cards.....haven't missed it in the slightest and the on-board (Realtek) is working fine with Windows 8 OOTB drivers.
    I tried (very hard - onboard and xonar) not to miss my XFI Titanium Pro but in the end the quality of sound is far better over my Z-5500's and I do (god help me) like the audio enhancements too. Eventually things got fixed for 7 and i've been happy with it since - 8 came along and broke all that (well not 8 as such but..). ATM i'm dual booting and 7 is still my primary OS.

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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Quote Originally Posted by dangel View Post
    Well for me it was er.. "sound" - the sound disappearing on reboot bug came back.



    I tried (very hard - onboard and xonar) not to miss my XFI Titanium Pro but in the end the quality of sound is far better over my Z-5500's and I do (god help me) like the audio enhancements too. Eventually things got fixed for 7 and i've been happy with it since - 8 came along and broke all that (well not 8 as such but..). ATM i'm dual booting and 7 is still my primary OS.

    Airflow? Pshhaarr! Waterflow for me
    Hi dangle - did you find the Asus card that much different to the titanium through the 5500's?





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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Quote Originally Posted by Syd View Post
    Hi dangle - did you find the Asus card that much different to the titanium through the 5500's?
    Personally yes - but it's highly subjective and I'd struggle to recommend creative cards because the software support is (and has always) been really poor. The hardware IMHO works well it's just they're obviously not investing in their software side nearly enough. As you see a lot of people are fine with onboard sound (it's much better than it once was) - but that sounds miles worse than the xfi through the z5500's as (for PC speakers) they are remarkably good. The same applies to the xonar though, discreet audio still has the benefits of better SNR and circuitry that's better isolated from electrical noise.
    I suspect i'm so used to the XFI's sound that I'm probably unhappy with other solutions because they're different
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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    I have gone right off Creative due to there Driver issues, I had an expensive Creative card in my Windows XP machine and when Windows 7 came out the drivers were not forth coming and the sound card and amp never worked the same again, the said Card and amp are back in there box under the stairs, always used the sound off the motherboard since thinking that I would never fall into that trap again, a shame really as I thought Creative were a good company.

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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Which Xonar did you have? the quality on my D2X is fantastic but i don't have an XFI to compare it too!

    I would also like to point out Asus have already got drivers out for Win 8
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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    I have the X-FI Elite Pro.

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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff I View Post
    I have the X-FI Elite Pro.
    I was asking Dangel

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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Sorry Biscuit

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    Re: Creative working on Windows 8 drivers - pro titanium promised for 30th + others.

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    Which Xonar did you have? the quality on my D2X is fantastic but i don't have an XFI to compare it too!

    I would also like to point out Asus have already got drivers out for Win 8
    I had the same one - I'm not saying it wasn't good, just that I preferred the XFI (and I missed crystalizer etc). I also had some bad experiences with the card being identified incorrectly as the PCI version (and worse experiences with scan's RMA which put an end to me using them as a supplier but that's another story) and the drivers not installing correctly. I could get it up and running by re-flashing the hardware id's on the card (eeek) but wasn't happy that something else wasn't awry.
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