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To: stribe30 who wrote (35544)	4/12/2001 11:47:11 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Scott: A bit of advice for those upgrading: if you use Windows ME, Creative Labs products seem to not have very good drivers for it We all have our favorite accessories companies, I guess. Pete's post indicates he quite likes Creative Labs... personally, my favorite is Guillemot (French company - but then that's not really their fault... or maybe it is ;-)). They've gone the traditional route of buying up any small-medium sized accessories maker that does a good job. Their main brands now are Hercules (graphics) and Thrustmaster (game controllers). I'm using one of each atm (a Thrustmaster force feedback wheel and a Hercules GeForce1 DDR w. TV-Out) and am immensely pleased with both. Creative garnered a lot of respect from me a couple of years ago when they really put a lot of extra effort into their graphics drivers (e.g. by making a Glide to OpenGL wrapper for their NVIDIA graphics cards). Most other manufacturers just recompiled NVIDIA's standard drivers, adding only their name and logo. Guillemot, btw, was also the first company to sign on to produce a board based on the Kyro2 chip. Interestingly enough, Creative just added their name to that list ;-). Besides game controllers and graphics products, Guillemot also makes other stuff under their own brand (i.e. Guillemot). Although I haven't had the chance to try any of them, their sound cards do support both A3D and EAX (as well as some SensAura positional stuff). From my experience with their other products alone, I will probably go for a Guillemot sound board next time I need one. Guillemot's biggest fault is their downright pathetic web site. Half the country versions don't work properly (incl. the US one) and the rest are rather confusing. -fyo

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