Re: Creative X-Fi is out

The driver interface is good, but yes, it does look like it was inspired
by audio hardware, and it could use a few tweaks. There is also an
alternative audio console that looks more like traditional driver interfaces
with tabs, but I find it less useful. The way the card has "modes" might
seem odd at first, but once you get used to it, you can setup a "game" mode
that has seperate settings from the "entertainment" mode, and just switch
between the two modes- it also reconfigures the hardware to perform
differently- listening to music in the game mode for instance, even with
similar settings, doesn't have the same effect it does when using the music
mode.

One thing I would do differently is have the tray icon have a mode
selector, similar to NVidia's tray settings icon- currently it takes a few
clicks more than it should to switch modes. But overall it is a better
design than the early Audigy drivers, where features very often were
scattered around.


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