As I was stat­ing here, there is some­thing wrong with the way peo­ple are treated by giant com­pa­nies. It strikes me as odd, that now there actu­ally IS a response from Cre­ative. Of course, there were some state­ments before but now they’re finally com­ing up with some details. Check it out here.

Obvi­ously, every gamer who’s expe­ri­enc­ing the popping/​crackling issues owns a high-​​end gam­ing sys­tem. Most of these prob­lems could be reme­died with a BIOS update or a mem­ory adjust­ment but this didn’t resolve the issues for all cus­tomers. Cur­rently, Cre­ative is work­ing with promi­nent moth­er­board and chipset man­u­fac­tur­ers and will report back within the next 2 weeks. Now, that’s the atti­tude I like to see …