Will A Soundblaster card work in a Boot Camp Mac Pro?

Just what the topic says I run my surround sound on the Mac 10.5 side through the Griffin FireWave gadget to the Klipsch 5.1 speakers and that works great for WoW on the mac side but I have started playing games under Boot Camp and Windows XP and the only sound I can get is via the mac output to an old pair of cheap computer speakers... having access to surround sound is a big help both in shooters like Orange Box and in MMORPG like Lord of the Rings Online and it seems that there are no windows drivers for the FireWave

I wrote Creative Labs asking about a sound acrd solution for the Mac. They suggested getting their 2.1 speakers with the Creative Xmod. I looked it up on Amazon.com. It looks like a decent solution for now.

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