X-fi Fatality Titanium "What u hear" Vista Problem

Now let me begin.
I Recently bought a Creative Fatality Pro, and i was recieving constant Blue Screen of Deaths, and i figured it was a faulty card, and my warranty expired.
I do ALOT of audio editing for church, work and a forum where i am the admin of. My most used feature is the "What u Hear" feature, which is excellent. I've always used it since i was young. However... this week i paid $400+ for the Creative Fatality titanium professional champion, the big mamma, and from what i've been told here and there, Titanium does NOT support this feature on Vista...
Why the hell not? I mean.. i paid big money and i get less features than the OLDER cards?
. Is there a legit Reason why there is no "What u hear" in Vista? (i have checked recording and selected show hidden and unused devices)
2. Is there a work around to fix this? (Installing XP drivers over the Vista ones)
3. Will this be fixed in the future?
Im fuming at Customer Service for basically not knowing the card existed... And then having no idea what to do.
Can someone PLEASE help me with this? I've been browsing all day to no avail... Cheers.

The Titanium does not have "What u hear". I think it's because of DRM in Vista.

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Hi,
at first, sorry for my bad english, but without practice, its not easy
Last week I bought an brand new Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium Fatalty Professional. I?m using Vista Ultimate x64 an the drivers from the original CD (Driver version 2.7.).
On my old X-Fi Extreme Music, I had a recording Device which was called "What you hear" (or "What U hear" , the original german description is "Was Sie h?ren"). It has the same function like "Stereomix" on other soundcards.
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