Quick ALchemy + Non BETA drivers question... for C

Hello,?I've been reading posts in this forum for the last two days... Wow... so much info!?Anyway, from what I've gathered so far (and please correct me if I'm wrong) the situation is as follows:
Official (non-BETA) drivers should be available for Vista sometime in March, these drivers should include all functionality (previously available in XP), including EAX, through the ASIO or OpenAL stacks, right?<So any game that boast EAX and uses the OpenAL/ASIO stack will work faultlessly, right?<
Meanwhile, old games that use DirectSound3D will only work with the ALchemy wrapper (that simulates a DirectSound HAL), correct?<
Assuming the above is all correct, does Creative plan to release the ALchemy wrapper with their official (non-BETA) driver? This would be great as then the new driver would (theoretically) support any EAX game (DirectSound or OpenAL)...
Thanks in advance.

g26,
I don't have any more information for everyone on what else will be included in the driver at the moment. As far as EAX goes, if a game is OpenAL it should be fine, OpenAL still works and hasn't been removed. Games with EAX that use DirectSound 3D will have to go through ALchemy instead, because of the changes in the OS. At the moment ALchemy is beta as well but keep an eye on the forums and the preview page for more updates on that. When there is more news on ALchemy I'll try to add it to the FAQ thread for that too.
Cat

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