Vista and sound cards

I'm no expert, but I run Vista Home Premium 64 bit for most of my games; with the last Creative Driver Update in Nov 2007, and Open AL the sound is excellent.

I have an X-Fi extreme music card and Klipsch Promedia 5.1 ver. 2.
 
i have an Xfi and vista 64 on an Abit ip35 pro with the latest xfi drivers i ahve had no trouble at all and sound is great
 
The XFI card will work under Vista with the latest drivers. However there may be some quirks that you may run into when gaming. If you search the net you will see that some people are having trouble with not getting 5.1 surround as well as a popping/crackling noise in some games and applications in Vista. I have Vista 64 Ultimate. I had the no 5.1 surround problem in some games (especially the Half Life2 games). I had to also install the Alchemy program for the XFI cards. That fixed my 5.1 problem but created the popping/crackling noise. I had to adjust the buffer and duration settings to eliminate the noise. Now so far all my games and apps are sounding correctly. Some people have this card and have zero issues under Vista, others have had similar problems like me but were able to fix them, and others have had the same problems and have not been able to fix them yet. But until someone makes a card designed from the ground up to run in Vista, I think the XFI cards are some of the better cards to get if using Vista IMO.

**EDIT** I noticed you are using Z5500. I am also using the same speakers paired with the XFI Gamer Card.
 
is the new auzentech xfi card good with vista right now? hopefully early next year creative will have fixed the issue. I wonder if there are any estimates for when that is supposed to happen.
 
I should not have bragged about the XFI. I went home at lunch to play a round of Unreal Tournament 3 and now I don't have any surround sound in that game. All other games still work though. I will have to wait until tonight to troubleshoot the problem:(.
 
Nevermind, I got home and now everything is working again. I hate it when something "fixes itself". I like to know what the problem is, but anyway.....game on.
 
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