The only reason to use a modified driver pack is if there is something it adds or fixes that is specifically relevant to you. However later, blind listening tests showed that their changes were not for the better, at least not with normal music (they'd been heavily focused on a test file LAME had trouble with). The LAME devs got interested and took their advice. A bunch of audiophile types started messing around and suggesting changes and presets and such. This kind of thing happened with the LAME MP3 encoder. They hear something different, so they figure it must be an improvement. Since there are now official vista drivers, it isn't relevant.Īlso you have to be real careful of the self proclaimed audiophiles that'll tweak things and tell you it is better. As always, it was still Creative's software running it, he didn't code a new driver or anything. The PAX guy got a hold of a beta version of it, modded up the inf files, mixed in older software when necessary, and released a "Vista driver" before there was an official one.
Driver worked mostly fine, but the software had problems. Basically the X-Fi wasn't fully Vista compatible. The PAX drivers gained notice back in the Vista days. They just didn't want to get sued by Dolby and DTS is all. Once he stopped doing that, they had no problem with his activities and now he's quite active on their forums. It wasn't "deliberate crippling" it was "Abiding by the terms of licensing." To use them on the X-Fis, you have to buy a separate pack that gets you a license. Creative got mad because that IS a violation of the license from Dolby Labs and DTS Coherent Acoustics. So he modded the Auzentech drivers to install for Creative cards, and left DD and DTS on.
Auzentech secured that license for their cards under Vista, and thus their drivers came with it enabled by default, and still do. However DD and DTS are owned by different companies, not Creative. I don't know if they do the encoding on chip or just pass it through from software, but whatever. All X-Fis can do it, hardware wise at least. This is all related to Dolby Digital and DTS outputs.
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