Driver teams if they combined which one would be the biggest nightmare
Which combined driver team would have waking up in the night covered in a cold sweat??? 
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50Creative and Via0%26Creative and ATI0%8ATI and Via0%3ATI, Via and Creative0%13 -
ATI isn't half bad lately... since their recent acquisitions.
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And anything Creative or VIA does is poison.....
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Have the creative team write drivers for the s3 chip built onto a Diamond motherboard. Run away!Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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hmmm...look who's the winner so far...
basically that's why I still have my Aureal Vortex sq2500 and newer installed on this system via drivers (runs good on xp ms ones...)
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that's exactly what i was thinking...Originally posted by Wombat
Have the creative team write drivers for the s3 chip built onto a Diamond motherboard. Run away!
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Well, I couldn't vote since there isn't a non of the above option. I have all 3 of those in my system and it has been mostly trouble free. Sure, I have the occasional problem, but I really think it comes down to the mobo manufacturer. I have bought Asus for a long time now and I would get nothing else. I do have one annoying video related bug in 2d, but it disappears for a month sometimes.
How about annoying software that ****s up your entire system like ICQ or Norton System Works. Some antivirus software blows too. Those are far worse than any of the above combo I've had. Oooh! Don't forget about Zip drives! ahhhh! I hated my zip drive.
DaveLadies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.Comment
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I never had ICQ screw up my system. But 99b was the last version I ran, so maybe it got worse as AOL digested it.
I can't believe Creative software never messed up your computer....Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Honestly, I have never had creative cause my computer to crash(excetp for a bug with Unreal2, not sure if it us Unreal2 ro creative) but I have had proboems with the software. Littel things like EAX not shutting off after closing a game, changes not tkaing effect after a reboot, etc...Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.Comment
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Add in to that a bit of Sierra software that when uninstalling decided to wipe EVERY program file off the machine... how on earth did they manage that !?!?
I voted for the first option - I only have first hand experience of Creative (the most troublesome hardware I have ever had in this machine...) - but Via I have heard lots of bad things about. From all I hear ATi has improved significantly recently.DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.netComment
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Via just chewed up my performance. Changed mobo, and things flew....
Burning is faster, games, appps, all is faster.
I'm never getting a via chipset again.
Creative has been good to me, never had any probs.
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Not had any probs with Creative's drivers. VIA on the other hand ... That being said I have my ancient KT133/Duron700/G400/Audigy2 running reasonably well at the mo, but can't wait to replace it with 746FX/Athlon2GHz/Parhelia next month or earlier.[size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
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I voted nr #1.
ATI has improved a lot, IMO they're just as good as any other company with a good driver record at the moment.Comment
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Wait till u guys mess with ALi
wait.. it's probably the fact that their chipsets suck
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I had a sierra product that wanted to uninstall IE6.
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