Daniel Kawakami has posted a farewell to the Creative Labs community. In his post on the Creative Labs Forums, he elaborates further on the purposely disabled driver features.
daniel_k
Super Contributor
My goodbye message to all supporters with some clarification and my legacy
Unfortunately, the situation did not change for us.They did say an updated Audigy driver would eventually be released, but don’t be optimistic about it (their priority is the launch of X-Fi 2).What I can say for sure is the features I’ve enabled will not be made available in an official driver update.Although I still have my doubts, they’ve said I would not be threatened if I provided patches instead of the actual binaries, because of licensed technologies built into them (Dolby/DTS).While this could even be true, most of the disabled features are Creative’s own technologies, which means they’ve disabled them on their own choice.That’s funny when people think you are an idiot.They were after me and, on a chat session, they asked me what I’d like from them, as if I were expecting something.They’ve promised me a free X-Fi 2, but I told them it was not necessary, because I was getting a couple of cards from other companies that contacted me.
Well, at least they are getting flammed all over the web and they are certainly mad about it and I could feel it while chatting with them. That is an enough reward for my hard work.
I’m not releasing a patch to enable DDL on any X-Fi neither Crystalizer for Audigy because, as they’ve pointed out to me, providing an alternative for their customers is good for them and increase their sales, specially when someone is doing it for free. Given the current situation, I cannot let this happen.
I just hope their competitor companies do something about it.
And I really hope people don’t forget this.
Thank you very much for your support and your donations.
Best regards,
Daniel Kawakami
Below are the links for my drivers, beware where you download them from, I’ll add CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 hashes to all files:
SB Audigy series Vista Support Pack v2.15.0004EQ with Equalizer (02/24/2008)SB Live! series Vista Support Pack 2.10.0001A (03/07/2008)
Gameport support pack for Vista 32-bit (x86), updated on 02/01/2008
SB Audigy Value/SE/LS & Live! 24-bit Windows Vista Pack 1.04.0077B (02/06/2008)
SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio Windows Vista Pack 1.04.0078A (02/06/2008)
There are people asking my PayPal account (dkbox2000@hotmail.com), so I’ll leave this link. Thanks again.
I really felt sad as I was reading through it. Daniel has helped thousands of people world-wide. Then I reached “I just hope their competitor companies do something about it” part. Now that part sounds promising.
A sad day indeed. We’re on our own now guys.
To be continued…
“We Need You daniel_K”.
We will miss you mate… You’ve made my card come to life in Vista…
Now I’m only left with one choice - either use KX Drivers OR use another card…
Amen
You know, the latest and greatest package (Feb 08), returned by Audigy2 zs to its former glory. Superb, bright, powerful.
It’s a shame to see you bow out of the arena. Creative have not silenced a hero, but created a legend.
Thank you and may God guide your hand.
daniel_k may have given up supporting Audigy series - but here at nomoregoatsoup we aren’t done yet. Not until our Audigy’s work correct.
There are several interesting Audigy driver projects under construction, and not just on this site either! There are YouPax offerings, kX-Mixer and many other modded sets under construction. I’ve seen a couple of audigy crystalizer and working dts/dd decoders in the making too..
Watch this space…
Peace out, Goat
I hope youre right Goat….
I would be very happy to see the Crystalizer and DTS/DD decoder on my Audigy…
Having just installed Daniel_K’s drivers for A2ZSPP on Windows XP, I have to say the man is a genius of magnificent proportions. The installation was painless as opposed to YouP_PAX, which I suffered with for many years, in some cases having to even do a complete fresh install of XP. I seriously hope he continues his work in secrecy. God knows we need people like him to make us feel we haven’t wasted our hard earned money on products that by all means deserve more support and enthusiasm than Creative gives them.
One thing’s for sure, X-Fi 2 can go fuck itself. Auzentech’s X-Fi Prelude is the closest I can get to utilising Creative’s fancy features without directly buying their crap.
This is to a guy that did nothing than support a bunch of people, i was about to go crazy with my x-fi card running on vista and was ready to trash it, but then i found Daniel K’s drivers and all i can say is THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I bought my card not knowing all the problems that it had on vista, and the fucked up support from creative (like if they care, cause they already got my money) blaming everybody else instead of backup his products, and yeah creative might have an increase in sales but to make a profit they need to fire all the bunch of lazy stupid motherF**** programmers that keep getting paid for drinking coffe and just a thought when some company hires Daniel and we know his writing the drivers, who do you think we are going to support your “Fatal1ty” or the “X-fi 2″ or the “Kawakami X-fi 3″ card….
I need the Audigy SE drivers, the ones I tried here didn’t work and those links he gives are DOA
Yep. The PayPal link still works though
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