How to get X-FI to actually work on Vi

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1. Uninstall Creative Programs
2. Uninstall Creative Drivers
3. Use Driver Sweeper to clean the last traces of 'em off
4. Install Daniel K's drivers.
Fixed everything for me. Stupid musical-chairs bug with the speaker channels sometimes rotating one or two channels to the left, lack of CMSS support, sound randomly turning off... EVERYTHING.
Honestly, Creative. What's going on How is it that one guy released a set of drivers back in FEBRUARY that got everything working for your pathetic equipment, when it's taken you four more months to release beta drivers that frankly DON'T WORK How sad is it for a multi-billion-dollar international company with history going back 20 years to not only get scooped by one guy on his home computer, but also fail to figure out how HE got YOUR equipment working better than you, half a year after the fact
Maybe Creative needs to reevaluate itself. Look around Google. Look at your own forums. People HATE you and your products. Maybe you guys need to stop rushing to rebadge all your crap with all the latest-and-greatest when none of it actually works. I believe that's called false advertising. Maybe you need to stop trying to slap "Fatalty" on all your products so spoiled little teenagers think they really need a $200 sound card to compete in games. Maybe you need to just stop thinking dollars and cents and focus on product quality.
You might have a monopoly on the soundcard market now, but the rate you're going, it won't last. And if you don't get your act together, your customers are going to wise up and leave for greener pastures soon.
Oh, and I should add: I only bought your X-Fi Platinum because my onboard audio had an annoying interference problem, and your soundcard was on clearance for $60. So I took a chance. And honestly, I regret it. If I could, I'd return it. I would NEVER have paid $00-200 for your junk, your poor driver support, and your attitude, and I'm never going to pay for it again.

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Acutally, i dont feel the difference between original and modded one. Got Vistax64 X-fi gamer fatality pro, phenom 9850 and dual EN8800GTX.
Im not involved in Creative Company Issues, but as a common user from my point of view it looks like this:
Creative got swift kick in da nuts from micro$oft because they had created EAX and whole equipment relying on DirectSound shell by micro$oft that micro$soft for inconvincing reason (for them developed for many years DirectSound shell suddenly are useless) that software sound processors are less demanding (!) for system than DirectSound+memory on creative X-fi's . So they left Creative in situation that in what i truly symphatise with them. they've developed 5th(or 4th) generation of EAX that was relying on micro$oft shell (they left DirectX thought, but restricted it as a Vista Native. the point is (proved) that they developed it on XP) and suddenly, for no serious reason they just dropped this technology. Got it m8 There is a clone of DirectSound - OpenAL that came for linux but whole vista system doesnt created to work with. Try to implement driver which are able to communicate between processor and x-fi without DirectSound shell on which most x-fi features are based on, and stop whining, m8 . They can make stable driver but then you would whine about loss of EAX, Crystaliser and hardware support, which are unable to work with vista[tm] system. You will got stable driver though. Do you know hot the swift kick in the nuts taste, m8 I think that they should work to make driver with their own compatible shell instead of looking of compatibility with vista. POINT!