Does Audigy 4 Work on Vista

I can't get my Audigy 4 to work reliably on my Vista Ultimate 64 bit machine and I'm wondering if the problem affects everyone with this combination.
I've tried all the different driver versions I can find and in every case I get the following problem.
The driver installs OK and the sound is fine when it works. (i.e. I get 5. sound that sounds great with all channels working normally)
At random intervals, the sound starts crackling. After a while the crackling gets worse and starts to sound distorted. The distortion makes everything quieter and echo a lot. Some time after this I lose all sound: there's just silence.
Some things seem to reset the sound and the cycle starts again. e.g. reloading a save game or restarting a game.
The problem makes games unplayable. e.g. in Medieval Total War II the sound will last from 5 to 20 minutes before dying. Restarting the game fixes the problem. Company of Heroes does it too but simply loading a game will fix it.
The same hardware worked absolutely under Windows 2000. It doesn't matter whether the on board sound is disabled or not. The on board Realtek sound works just fine. (But sounds rubbish compared to the Audigy 4)
I've been waiting for a year for a decent driver but no luck.
My question for everyone is "do any of you run an Audigy 4 on Vista 64 without problems". I'm wondering if the problem is related to my hardware even though it all works under Windows 2000.
I'm using a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI mBoard (NForce 4 SLI) and an nVidia 7800 GTX graphics card. I'm using the latest nVidia drivers for everything. Please note that I'm talking about an Audigy 4 not an Audigy 4 Pro.
Thanks

None of the problems you describe here,
A8N-SLI SE, x2 3800+ (@2600 Mhz), X950 Pro, Audigy 4 (same as yours), Vista Ultimate 64 w/SP
using this driver (best one for me so far),
http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=2700
never had anything like you describe both before and after installing SP. One thing that I do know about Vista is that when you uninstall drivers they are never truly gone, Vista keeps a folder with all previous driver versions. have a look through your "System32\DriverStore\FileRepository" folder for any folders named "wdma_emu.inf", and I will bet you will find several of them.
If you find you have a few of them in there and want to try the drivers linked above (if you haven't already), uninstall your current driver and then delete all those wdma_emu.inf folders. One thing you will need to take ownership of them before deleting. The easiest way to do that is to copy and paste the following,
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas]p"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas\command]keown /f \"%\" && icacls \"%\" /grant administrators:F"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%\" && icacls \"%\" /grant administrators:F"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]p"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]keown /f \"%\" /r /d y && icacls \"%\" /grant administrators:F /t"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%\" /r /d y && icacls \"%\" /grant administrators:F /t"
into Notepad and save it as TakeOwnership.reg. Once saved double click on it to add it to the registry. Then go back to those wdma folders, right click on each and select Take Ownership, now you can delete them. Then install the drivers.

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