Buying Creative and using Vista is a big mistake. Creative has purposely crippled their cards on Vista through poor drivers in hopes you'll by the X-Fi 2 card when it arrives. Go Asus or if you must have an X-Fi check out the Auzentech X-Fi's as Ive heard nothing but good things about them. My X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sounds like **** in vista and every time I try to upgrade or remove the drivers I get a BSOD, every time! Safe to say it will be my last Creative product period.
Same here, my first was a SB Live.
I have also heard they are disabling features in Vista by forcing firmware upgrades when you update the drivers with their new versions. I don't know how much truth is in that but wouldn't put it past them after all the BS with the Audigy's. After they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar they immediately released new drivers to appease the irate customers on the forums. This is after not releasing drivers for certain products since the introduction of Vista. What does that say about them as a company?