Sound Blaster Sigma config

Hi all....
I have a simple, and probably stupid, question.....
I bought a Sound Blaster Sigma headset some days ago and still have a sound blaster X-Fi Extreme Music sound card.....
To have the better 360° 3D audio, have I to use the X-Fi sound card or the USB sound card that comes with the headphones? Which is better (not only in terms of audio quality, but specifically for 3D gaming audio)?
Hope that the X-Fi is good too......hope it's better also....
Sorry for my english....
Thx in advice for the answers....
Cya

The following is the responses I have received from Creative customer support regarding the THX controller software NOT working (the controller software just hangs) with my X-fi Platinum. I am very confused by the contradicting responses help please!
Detailed Problem Description:
Ok I have installed the Alpha/Sigma software and the cotrol panel just hangs when it opens. I uninstalled, reinstalled in safe mode, restarted, ran update with the same results . . . WTF these are sold as high-eng! I have been in tech support, I am a Intel Product Dealer, and a MS System builder for years. Windows 7 prem 64, Creative SB X-FI Titanium . . . seems like the head set should work with this. Please help...
Thank you for contacting Creative Technical Support.
Are you connecting the headset thru the 3.5mm plug or USB connection?
If using the USB headset connection, please note that you won't be able to use it with the X-fi Titanium soundcard.
Please follow the steps carefully below when installing Sound Blaster Tactic3D Sigma in your Windows 7 computer.
http://support.creative.com/kb/showa...aspx?sid=81537
Solution ID: 81537
How to Install Sound Blaster Tactic 3D Sigma in Windows
The driver for the headset is Sound Blaster Tactic3D Sigma Pack for Windows 1.01.0001.
Download link: http://support.creative.com/Downloads/searchdownloads.aspx?strString=SBTS_PCDRV_LD_1_01_ 0001.exe&Sho...
Requirements:
* Microsoft® Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows Vista® 32-bit or 64-bit with Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows XP Professional x64
Edition or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher
* Sound Blaster Tactic3D Sigma
Notes:
* To install this pack
1. Download the file onto your local hard disk.
2. Double-click the downloaded file.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.
Hope this helps.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused. Thank you for your patience and understanding on this matter.
Please retain all the previous correspondence when replying to this email.
Best Regards,
**bleep**
Worldwide Customer Response
Creative
Thank you for answering,
I can use the mini jacks but not the features I bought the headset for? The mini jack functioning of this headset seem no better than any $25 headset . . . and I have spent years plugged in in recording studios.
So the features of this headset are not available if I am using your High-end soundcard?!?!?!?!? How is this possible?!?!?!? And why does the box not say this???? Now that I have spent hundreds of dollars on your soundcard and nearly another $100 on your headphones I am just out of luck!!!???
I think this needs a website of its own. What am I to do with this useless waste of money at this point?
So, please, tell me what I am to do?
And please send me contact information for the marketing product leads for both of these products!
Awaiting a reasonable answer,
Thank you for writing to Creative Technical Support.
Please note that when in USB connection, USB devices such as your SB Tactic3D Sigma Headset will create its own USB Audio Device and it will bypass the onboard sound card and the X-fi Titanium card.
Make sure that the headset is properly detected in Device Manager and selected as the default playback and recording device.
When using the mini-jack, please ensure that the X-fi Titanium card is selected as the default playback and recording device.
Thank you for your patience and understanding on this matter.
Please retain all the previous correspondence when replying to this email.
Best Regards,
**bleep**
Worldwide Customer Response
Creative
PLEASE READ YOUR OWN PRIOR RESPONSES YOU ALREADY SAID IT WON"T WORK!!!!!!
Mod notes: Advisor name removed.

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    It saddens me that i had to buy a discontinued product off e-bay because it's a better product than what your company currently offers. I wish this wasn't the way things turned out. When you dropped the fun presets and finite control of the EAX effects during the transition from the Audigy to the X-Fi line of cards I noticed but since they were not the main reason I owned a Creative card I tolerated it. But now you've gone and ruined the features that were the reasons i bought Creative cards, and this I will not oblige.
    My Creative Hardware.jpg

    @To the OP:
    I own a X-Fi Elite Pro for the past 8 years now.
    Since there, this card has faithfullly seen me through 3 major PC upgrades.
    I'm currently at a point where, very sadly, much of what you've described is also weighing on my decision to not go for a Z line.
    @Creative:
    I do hope you're listening and can come up with a solution to a simply design feature - namely a fully working Stereo Surround, like the one that was available in the X-Fi line of cards via CMSS-3D.
    Regards,

  • Set up can not detect any Sound Blaster L

    When trying to update my driver I get the message that the system on my computor. However the Sound Blaster system is working fine. The reason for wanting to update the drivers is that I get a resourceconflict when trying to install a FireWire PCI-card.
    Can any help me?
    Best regards

    Otterman wrote:
    Hello, here is the result (without the Firewirecard installed)
    Confilicts/sharing
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    Hello,
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  • A message from Creative to the Sound Blaster forum participa

    We have read the strong feedback about Creative's forum post regarding driver development by Daniel_k and other outside parties. Creative's message posted on our behalf by our Company spokesperson tried to address our concern about the improper distribution of certain software which is the property of other companies. However, we did not make it as clear as we would have liked that we do support driver development by independent third parties. The huge task of developing driver updates to accommodate the many changes in the Vista operating system and the extensi've testing required, including the lengthy Vista certification requirements for audio, makes it very difficult for Creative to develop updates for all past products. Outside developers have been very helpful to Creative and our customers by developing updates for many of our Sound Blaster products, and we do support and appreciate these efforts. This however does not extend to the unauthorized distribution of other companies' property. We hope to work out a mutually agreeable method for working with Daniel_k in supporting his efforts in driver development. Going forward, we are committed to doing a better job of working more closely with third parties to support their development for our products and our customers.

    May I be the first to say:
    Thank you for finally responding. :smileyvery-happy:
    It may be the beginning of repairing Creative's unfathomably huge PR snafu. Hopefully you guys can pull this one off, starting with this thread. If you can actually take this and turn the whole company around with it, I'm sure many Creative swear-offers may once again return to your products. By turning around, I mean:
    - Quit crippling hardware with bad (or intentionally bad) software. Yes, other companies (like nVidia, Intel, AMD, etc...) do this to maintain low production cost, but when it does work, it works well, and their products are branded as "lower priced alternati'ves". Everyone's seen unpopulated component pads on hardware boards, which entices people to want to buy the full featured version. But doing it between operating systems is absolutely ridiculous!
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    - Rethink your corporate strategy. Everyone now knows about Creative's history of buying up companies to stifle competition... you've got to quit that stuff. It may give you more capital, but doing it in a Microsoftian fashion is just bound to get you bad press that your company isn't Microsoft-sized enough to handle. Again.
    - While Windows Vista may be the worst operating system in existence, that in no way gives you the right to refuse support on older hardware when it's darn well capable of being supported. nVidia and ATI are shining examples of this - they still support their most ancient of hardware in the newest operating systems. That's what's given me the ability to put [url="http://nliteos.com">nLite[/url]ned versions of Windows XP on darn near every computer I come across, and make it run better than ever. You need to quit spewing out excuses and start spewing out working drivers.
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    With that, let's see the news flow right on in.
    Message Edited by FalconFour on 04-0-2008 09:58 PM

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    HI!
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    Julien

    estebandit wrote:
    Is there a known issue for this
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