To be brief, i have a x-fi and under vista x64 and 4gb or ram nothing works properly. Creative supposedly related a driver pack on oct1st but that did little actually. Before the drivers i would get popping and crackling after the drivers the sound works well for music but under gaming it produces a BSOD.
A quick look at the creative forums shows that there are many people with this problem..I am a bit sick of this..
http://forums.creative.com/creativel…board.id=Vista

Anyway my purpose to this thread is to ask if other have tried other sound cards that would yield nice performance and good effects under gaming. To be honest under XP my X-FI sounded great and exceeded my expectation but under vista creatives support/drivers are far from perfect almost a year after vistas release.

Does anyone have suggestions ? Alternatives to creative sound cards ?

Thanks
Pete