SB Audigy ZS EAX prol

I have installed the sb adudigy zs and then updated the drivers but when i go to play games that use eax the game does not recognize that the card has that ability. the wierd thing is i also have windows xp 64bit installed on another partition on my computer and everything works fine there except i cant seem to get this sub to work with it.
the way i have the hardware configured is i have the creative home theater cables hooked up to my pioneer reci'ver in a 5. output.
if there is anything anyone can do to walk me through getting this working...i would be much apreciati've...for i have been trying to get this working for almost 2 days and it is getting agrivating because i know this is a great card.
thnx....Eric

BigBoss. From all the reading I did and the questions that I asked Creative, including using the X-Fi driver, the word from the top really is that it isn't recommended. It's just not a supported configuration. It may work, but I'm betting there may be some problems like your seeing now. I just downloaded and installed the latest drivers that do support the Audigy 2ZS card, and so far (knock on wood), everything seems to be working extremely well.
I decided to download the driver first and let the install do its thing. When it couldn't erase all the driver files, obviously because they were still acti've, I rebooted in safe mode and ran DriverCleaner Pro. It removed all the rest of the files. Rebooted normally and continued the installation. So far, as I've said, all is good! But I'll keep testing to see for sure. Good luck!

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http://www.ask.asia.creative.com/wwimages/audio_int/xfi/xfi_cmss_entertainment.JPG
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