After the Creative/Daniel K. fiasco, Daniel has decided to move on from modifying creative drivers for the general public. This is likely the best choice for him and I for one do not blame him for choosing this path. I’m sure many Creative customers would prefer to continue to get updated support packs. Daniel has posted a goodbye message on the Creative forums.
Daniel says:
"Although I still have my doubts, they've said I would not be threatened if I provided patches instead of the actual binaries, because of licensed technologies built into them (Dolby/DTS).
While this could even be true, most of the disabled features are Creative's own technologies, which means they've disabled them on their own choice.
Daniel goes on to say:
They were after me and, on a chat session, they asked me what I'd like from them, as if I were expecting something.
They've promised me a free X-Fi 2, but I told them it was not necessary, because I was getting a couple of cards from other companies that contacted me.
Well, at least they are getting flammed all over the web and they are certainly mad about it and I could feel it while chatting with them. That is an enough reward for my hard work."
In the goodbye post Daniel has put links to his forum posts with the driver support packs. I’m going to go ahead and link to the filefront pages as well as post the file hashes.
SB Audigy series Vista Support Pack v2.15.0004EQ with Equalizer (02/24/2008)
Download from Filefront
File hashes:
- CRC32: C99B3CF8
- MD5: 133B743BAAFADD9D681C56B0A0E0DEF2
- SHA1: D8C979C6E1BED6C3C3AB1C6FB425AD417D74A09C
SB Live! series Vista Support Pack 2.10.0001A (03/07/2008)
Download from Filefront
File hashes:
- CRC32: 15AFA064
- MD5: BBED0409A6941767ED263634B7A420EC
- SHA1: B84E8E37DDA0504204DA79AA8B8B585FD37D8461
Gameport support pack for Vista 32-bit (x86), updated on 02/01/2008
Download from Filefront
File Hashes:
- CRC32: 44585B0B
- MD5: F52B755900825968C4F5687CBA0E4C08
- SHA1: 9C4D1016DD79570F5BCA56C9A651148883532271
SB Audigy Value/SE/LS & Live! 24-bit Windows Vista Pack 1.04.0077B (02/06/2008)
Download from Filefront.
File Hashes:
- CRC32: 2218C974
- MD5: 3087EBB1C27F0DE19459F9FEECA1E7B7
- SHA1: 6C95377A0777D39ADC99193A43D43B2F764E68DD
SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio Windows Vista Pack 1.04.0078A (02/06/2008)
Download from Filefront.
File Hashes:
- CRC32: 837372DB
- MD5: 0FF904877BA557E8E4DDBBE04F89EDEA
- SHA1: A2CF2FFF4816DBBC005A24D4E5E6BBA89A12AD05
Hopefully the above links will survive the test of time. I have stored the above files safely but do not have the bandwidth to host them. Should the filefront links fail I will find mirrors.
Daniel, I wish you the best. Publicity like this doesn’t come everyday, I would not blame you a bit for exploiting it a bit to get your foot in the door at Creative or a competitor if that is what you want to do. Who knows, you may be very happy with your current employment. I can’t help but wonder if your Paypal account is tipping the scales with donations…
Good Luck Daniel!
UPDATE: 07.01.08
Well it looks like Daniel has edited some of his original posts. The drivers are also no longer on filefront. I have found an alternate location here.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Please upload this files and share with us because these links don’t work.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Yes, the filefront links don’t work and he deleted his post on the forums. I have searched for a long time for these drivers, and can’t find them