No Digital Decoder or option to use optical digital ports X-FI PCIe sound blas

Hi,I'm new to this board and I just got the new Soundblaster X-FI PCI express card. I'm dual booting both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows XP and I don't seem to have any access to my digital optical ports. I dont have the doby digital decoder tabs in the sound settings on either windows or the Creative software. I'm a bit confused as I thought that would have installed when I ran the setup from the disk. I feel kind of dumb since im going to assume something either didnt install right or I might have to download something. I know the card has to support digital audio as it has the ports so maybe something is not set right? I tried doing a search but couldnt find anything specific to my problem. Thanks in adavance,SDB

Well, after a more detailed search I have found out that the Creative Labs PCI express X-Fi xtreem audio sound card can not decode DTS or Dolby. I was confused as I didnt know it didnt have that ability. Poop. I have to say that it might behoove Creative to make that clear on their website as I would have bought a better one had I known. Otherwise the card is awsome and I'm just going to have to pay the restocking fee but at least I can get most of my money back from where I got it. Seriously, I should have done a better job at doing my homework. I'll probably get another X-Fi card cux it sounds awsome with my new creative 7. speakers. Just wish I had known before hand. Anyway, maybe this will be helpful to other people.

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