I agree with Silvertones above. I have just completed the installation of a new DAW with Windows 7 and a Creative FXi Titanium Card, the latter giving me more problems than the rest of the installation put together. In the past, Creative has produced Soundcards primarily for the Gaming fraternity with music creation as an afterthought. FXi has a Music Creation Mode and has superior sound to my old Audigy card. However, Creative have added numerous extra options which take a while to sort out.

I have struggled for two days just to record a track, working through all the various option combinations one at a time only to find, finally, that all I needed to do was switch from MME to the ASIO driver to get results. Further exploration is still needed.