jamyskis
January 25th, 2007, 10:56 PM
Has anyone here had experience with hardware that runs flawlessly on Linux, but causes Windows to stutter and crash (more than usual) at the first mention of it.
My case in hand is the Terratec Aureon 7.1 PCI sound card. If you've heard of it, you'll probably know that the Windows drivers are an unmitigated mess and cause most DirectSound applications to stutter at best, bluescreen or crash at worst (and most of the time it is a worst-case scenario). I've been on the phone to Terratec and they've ensured me that they are working on negotiations with their chipset manufacturer to get a new set of drivers sorted, and in the meantime I've been feeding them a comprehensive list of the games which refuse to work with the card (about 40% of my rather large collection).
Here's the cracker - this very same card works absolutely flawlessly with Ubuntu. Not only that - but I get full surround sound with it, no modifying config files or anything. Yet the guy at Terratec said to me that they cannot comment on Linux compatibility as they don't support it.
It beggars belief that third-party programmers reverse engineering the card can write better drivers than the company itself... :confused:
My case in hand is the Terratec Aureon 7.1 PCI sound card. If you've heard of it, you'll probably know that the Windows drivers are an unmitigated mess and cause most DirectSound applications to stutter at best, bluescreen or crash at worst (and most of the time it is a worst-case scenario). I've been on the phone to Terratec and they've ensured me that they are working on negotiations with their chipset manufacturer to get a new set of drivers sorted, and in the meantime I've been feeding them a comprehensive list of the games which refuse to work with the card (about 40% of my rather large collection).
Here's the cracker - this very same card works absolutely flawlessly with Ubuntu. Not only that - but I get full surround sound with it, no modifying config files or anything. Yet the guy at Terratec said to me that they cannot comment on Linux compatibility as they don't support it.
It beggars belief that third-party programmers reverse engineering the card can write better drivers than the company itself... :confused: