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OK ! OK ! ENOUGH FLAMING CREATIVE LABS !!

7 posts by 4 people · 16 Dec 1996 - 18 Dec 1996

R Gre 16 Dec 1996#348828
Sorry Eric. I got a 3D Blaster, not the Reactor. I Wonder how many of you guys use a SoundBlaster??? or 100% compatable??? Anyway, I do not want too start a Industry standard string here (Which Creative Labs has got)...Du, Nuf said. I think the more companies that support rendition the better. And C-Labs is a major driving force. BIG TIME!!!! I hope they bring out THE PATCH for indycar2 soon. Would like too get it by other means, Any help is much appreciated. ICR2-3D works with the 3D Blaster. no problem Can someone please help me. I own Icr2 anyway,+ I am supporting rendition based cards by buying the Blaster. No? Also.. VQuake is Awesome on the card. Great job RENDITION!!! Final note... HEY CREATIVE LABS......Don't***up. I expect some serious support for this card. take example from Intergraph... Top notch!! Empires have fallen for smaller reasons. oohhh.. You must be scared now, eh? Thankyou fellow simmers, please don't Flame me too much.
Phil Bowe 16 Dec 1996#348829
Sorry to rain on your CL party, but I build systems for a living and I can tell You, Between Creative Labs and Diamond Multimedia, I dont know who holds the record for the longest period on hold for a customer calling tech support, BUT ITS ONE OF THEM!
Phil Bowe 16 Dec 1996#348830
PS, Sierra Online Has THE SLOWEST WEB SITE ON THE PLANET, and there is no close second place. In my year + on the Web, I have never seen a site as slow. Granted, I'm on the East coast, Their site is in the midwest. NO EXCUSE. It's 4:20 AM and in 26 Minutes I Have now seen the front page and one other link to some buy 2 get one free that i hit by mistake. Go creative labs!
R Gre 16 Dec 1996#348831
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gee, you sure sre sensitive. Did Creative Labs really shaft you some time? I think Sound Blaster is the best next too Turtle Beach then any Pro card Blows them all away. Anyway you seem too be very bias and just love your Reactors/Intergraph. When I was a Kid we use too argue who's Dad had the better lawnmower One made by Sears / One by The Bay... funny thing is they both had Briggs&Stratton engines ! ! They were both junk! Oh Well, them were the days. See you ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: OK! OK! Enough FLAMING CREATIVE LABS!!!!! Date: 15 Dec 1996 18:44:21 GMT Organization: Emory University I use a Sound Blaster (like most people), but not by choice. It's a crappy noisy card, but I don't have any compatibility problems. If another card would be guaranteed to work as well with all my games I would buy it in a second. Being the standard doesn't mean you have a quality product. If you want the 3D Blaster that's fine with me. But the way I see it, the Reactor is cheaper, it comes with ICR2, and Intergraph has incredible support. It beats the 3D Blaster on all accounts. BTW, asking Creative Labs for great support is an exercise in futility.
paul 17 Dec 1996#349013
Having briefly owned a 3D Blaster, I would have to agree that Creative Labs Support is weak bordering on a don't really care attitude. First off no where in the documentation or on the packaging did they list a Technical Support Number, No big deal just a bit of an inconvenience. Upon talking to the tech he really wasn't very helpful and didn't seem interested in getting any specifics on the nature of my problem. I own an IBM aptiva (lately I have really started believing integrated systems cause more problems than they solve) and feel considering how common these types of systems are becoming these days they may have spent a little time getting more information, maybe not to immediately solve my problem but to better improve future releases of their product. Anyways my problems seems to be with the 3D blaster conflicting with the system board, it deactivates the power switch so the only way I have shutting off my computer is by unplugging it, also win95 hangs on startup if the Rapid Resume feature is disabled. I have ordered a Reactor figuring that it couldn't be any worse and from what I have heard from this group is that there support is excellent, also it seems rendition ICR2 is only available if you purchase either the intergraph or sierra cards. It just kind of sucks that you have to mail order the reactor, the CL card seems to be the only one sold in Edmonton.
I guess you've never heard the Emu 8mb patch set on an AWE32? Blow the Roland and Yamaha cards away. And the AWE, 8mb of RAM, and the EMU patch set is still cheaper then the Roland card. Mike
So, you're blaming your widely documented Rapid Resume problems on the 3D Blaster? C'mon.... Mike

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