Creative Goes After Driver Modder

FreedomFighter writes "Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being 'Vista Ready'. Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers. Creative insisted that features such as Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS(TM) signals and DVD-Audio which worked fine in WinXP, would not work on windows Vista. With Creative releasing less than one new driver a year, things seemed bleak. Fortunately, a talented user, Daniel_K, was recently able to 'fix' many of the drivers, enabling the incompatible features and also fixing many bugs. Just today Creative has decided to put a stop to this. They removed all links to his modified drivers, and banned several users who were posting links to the now banned drivers."

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Good gaming sound card?

[Alari]

Kinda OT: I'm looking for a good gaming sound card. My on-board one is a joke, and while I'm currently using a lower-end Creative card, I would like to get something better. I read about the problems with Creative in the comments on Newegg for their current offerings, but I didn't see anything else that really stood out. That said, does anyone have any recommendations for a good gaming sound card, ideally one that supports as many as possible of the modern acceleration features? Thank you.