Creative Live/Audigy drivers have never worked properly on SMP machines, regardless of the operating system.
I have gone through all the Windows' (NT/2000/XP) and the Linux driver on several dual machines with different hardware and none of them work. The sound cracks, pops and skips randomly. It seems to randomly spawn multiple instances of the driver, one on every processor, which then conflict with each other. On Windows-machines it helps if you turn down all acceleration features but its still not flawless.
They are aware of the problem, have been for a loooong time, but just don't care. I wonder what happens when the "hyper-threading" Intel processors hit the market? Might get interesting:-)
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Creative Live/Audigy drivers have never worked properly on SMP machines, regardless of the operating system.
I have gone through all the Windows' (NT/2000/XP) and the Linux driver on several dual machines with different hardware and none of them work. The sound cracks, pops and skips randomly. It seems to randomly spawn multiple instances of the driver, one on every processor, which then conflict with each other. On Windows-machines it helps if you turn down all acceleration features but its still not flawless.
They are aware of the problem, have been for a loooong time, but just don't care. I wonder what happens when the "hyper-threading" Intel processors hit the market? Might get interesting