• Daniel K Driver Page

This is a sad state of affairs that I wanted to bring to everyone's attention. As you know Creative has been more than lacking in their driver development area for Windows Vista. A hero known as DanielK came to our rescue and was able to fix Creative's software and restore full functionality for Vista users. Creative has decided to ban DanielK and many other users from their forums and have removed all links to his modified driver package.

Without Daniel's work hundreds of thousands of people would have worthless sound cards sitting in their computer. The stupid thing is that I like the XFI and I have not found another product that works like it does (the Surround sound and huge number of simultanious sounds ability in XFI games with Headphones is amazing!), but Creative cant make drivers worth shit for it. I wish creative would let a quality company pick the hardware up and write good drivers for it. I am sick of the hissing under Vista (which BTW in the same machine dual boots under XP and has no issues ) Anyone find the XFI Drivers Daniel made? I would love to try them out (never actually had heard of them before this).

Daniel_K's Official Blog. Windows 10 drivers for ASUS Xonar family and other C-Media Oxygen HD based. Please DO NOT re-release my modified packages in any. This software/driver pack is unofficial. It's nice to see daniel_k back in action with Windows 10 drivers. (I've been away from this forum a while.).

All that is on torrents are for the Audigy series. It's hilarious, really.

You're a company that makes a product. People are pissed because they can't use your product. A lone man with more coding skill than every developer you've hired in the last decade comes by and write drivers that work and let your customers use your product, making them incredibly happy. Do you: (A) Thank him and offer to host his drivers (B) Offer him a job (C) Offer him a job and lay off the rest of your incompetent staff (D) Tell him to never let anyone see the drivers again under threat of legal action If you picked (D), you may be qualified for a management position at a rapidly failing tech company! It's hilarious, really.

You're a company that makes a product. People are pissed because they can't use your product. A lone man with more coding skill than every developer you've hired in the last decade comes by and write drivers that work and let your customers use your product, making them incredibly happy. Do you: (A) Thank him and offer to host his drivers (B) Offer him a job (C) Offer him a job and lay off the rest of your incompetent staff (D) Tell him to never let anyone see the drivers again under threat of legal action If you picked (D), you may be qualified for a management position at a rapidly failing tech company! Decompiling isn't a walk in the park. Modifying a compiled program without access to the original source code can be just as difficult as writing the original program.QUOTE In his own words: 'danielk Super Contributor Posts: 344 Registered: Message 14 of 76 Viewed 2,024 times - cartel wrote: Ok I guess I'm in the minority. Although the 2002 driver is old as the hills, it remains the'best sounding' but you have come the closest I seen, and for the average user, this is quite acceptable.

Can you tell me what I need to make my own driver? Any tools or compilers I need?

Maybe a site explaining it? Thanks so much - I didn't 'make' my own driver. It is just a working mix of different driver sets. You can't make these old drivers Vista-compatible, unless you have the skills to reverse engineer it. Even so, it is not worth the work. ' He mixes creative's work. So he is effectively asking to be paid for creative's work.

Click to expand.People pay GeekSquad all the time to make up for a company's inability to deliver a working product. The results may vary, but they still get their cut. When you have a product that doesn't work the way it's supposed to, and someone comes along and fixes that product, getting it to work the way they're supposed to, I don't look at it as paying them for someone else's work.

I look at it as paying them for fixing my problem. That may not be the way it ultimately boils down to, but that's irrelelvant to me. I have a working product now, that the company couldn't deliver in the first place.

Daniel K Driver Page

The person responsible for my happiness deserves their due. Anyone willing to go as far as DanielK did to make things work deserves more than a simple thank you in my eyes. At least someone cares enough to make things right. Creative certainly doesn't, or else they'd have a working driver in the first place.

The thing is, hes not programming the drivers. He just changing a line here and their.

And copying files here and there. He not really reprogramming the drivers from the start. I used to do something like this when I was modding Razer vista drivers, when Razer didnt have any.

And I did the same thing.With the X-merdian drivers and the Razer XP drivers. Getting them to go around the whql thing in Vista. With a simple file copy. Plus asking for cash for something you do not own and all you did is change lines and copy files over, is a mistake. That be like me walking into target changing a design on a shirt and then asking for donations to keep doing it. He was perfectly fine not asking for donations.

He ruin it when he started to ask people to donate him cash to work on the drivers. Unless he hosting it on his site, then he dont need donations. It would had been something diffent.

If he was hosting them on his site but he wasnt. If he was programming he wouldnt be using creative code. Now those people who makes the KX drivers, their the ones who are programing/coding drivers. You can mod drivers but that dont make you a programmer or a coder.

You just changing lines and copying and pasting files. Like the ATI and Nvidia driver modders are doing So creative couldnt hire him any way, he not really doing any thing that a normal person cant do. If they needed some one, they would hire the KX driver team since their actually programing the drivers. Theres a diffents between programing/coding drivers and modding drivers. Their not the same thing. I dont agree with daniel because, he wouldnt be in this mess thats hes in if he never done the donation.

In my view he was just looking for a quick buck since he has no page to host the drivers, So all of those donations is going into his pocket for his own use. To me thats selling modded drivers. He was trying to do was making cash off some one esle IP and got upset when he couldnt do it any more. Now I would actual agree with Daniel if he Actually programing this and that from scratch without the use of any of creative code.

Or if he was hosting the drivers on his site which he isnt.