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...We’ve still yet to receive any kind of response from Creative about this, but Kawakami says that he’s been told that he can continue with his mods, ‘except the “forbidden” ones, and that he’s also ‘allowed to receive donations.’
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Kawakami explains that ‘Creative purposefully modified the Audigy drivers to disable some features when Vista is detected, and also purposefully introduced some bugs to prevent some XP utilities from running. I did a complete analysis of the driver to determine where all the checks and bugs were introduced and started modding.’
He lists the features that he’s successfully enabled in the Vista driver, which include:
* Dolby/DTS decoding
* CMSS, CMSS2 and Stereo Surround (originally only CMSS was available, but this setting also affects ALchemy/OpenAL and Kawakami notes that it’s thus particularly useful)
* Advanced EQ and Special FX presets
* DVD Audio
* Hardware MIDI synthesizer (Kawakami says he wrote a small utility that automatically detects and changes the default Vista MIDI Synth during driver install or can change it later using its GUI. Some media players let you choose the MIDI synthesizer)
* Equalizer
* WaveRT
He lists the features that he’s successfully enabled in the Vista driver, which include:
* Dolby/DTS decoding
* CMSS, CMSS2 and Stereo Surround (originally only CMSS was available, but this setting also affects ALchemy/OpenAL and Kawakami notes that it’s thus particularly useful)
* Advanced EQ and Special FX presets
* DVD Audio
* Hardware MIDI synthesizer (Kawakami says he wrote a small utility that automatically detects and changes the default Vista MIDI Synth during driver install or can change it later using its GUI. Some media players let you choose the MIDI synthesizer)
* Equalizer
* WaveRT
...We’ve still yet to receive any kind of response from Creative about this, but Kawakami says that he’s been told that he can continue with his mods, ‘except the “forbidden” ones, and that he’s also ‘allowed to receive donations.’
Read the whole article HERE
