Must have had a dozen or so Creative cards over the years, the last being a X-Fi Fatality around 2005. However, never had a issue with the drivers. I did used to have an issue with the size of the driver packages until I looked deeper into the payload and found that 300MB+ of the 400MB were pointless test files/samples that could be deleted.
Currently using onboard on my Asus X99 through a cheap Fiio Taishan optical DAC.
Currently using onboard on my Asus X99 through a cheap Fiio Taishan optical DAC.