Reviewing 2.58 (Mar 4, 2011)
These seem to cause trouble on my Windows XP systems but help on my Windows 7 system. Mixed bag, as usual.
Given that Microsoft has pretty much ripped out the sound code and rewrote it all in software, and that multi-core systems are in place in many homes, onboard sound can give very, very good results compared to dedicated cards.
Given how inconsistent Creative drivers have been over the years, it's no wonder that most people are not upset about the change in the way sound is processed in Vista and Win 7 and the push for onboard sound has taken hold so substantially .
Regardless, I'm not that happy about the combined codec download and codebase. I wish that they would optimize code for each chipset on each platform. As it is, if they tweak stuff for Win 7, they sometimes goof up something in Windows XP, and that kinda sucks.
But it is what it is and it works ok for now I guess. I can always just leave the XP systems at the earlier versions.
NOTE:
R257 = version 6299
R258 = version 6316
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