occ,

I had/still have a realtek sound add-on to my Vista HP pc.
Screwed round and round with it. Came to conclusion with some help
to install my Audigy 2 ZS soundcard in the system.

The main problems I had were levels. The Audigy Card works just fine, albeit
Creative driver content suffers for the newer O.S. system.
Ha Vista is now old.

I "had" the Audigy, so used it, but maybe you'd be better off with an
external USB unit.

Several members are using them.

Good Luck!

FrankB

Down The Street vs2015 12-03-2014
Win7, AMD QuadA8-5500,16GB,2TeraHD, Komplete 10
PG Ultra Plus 2016,Alesis 12USB, Sonar Platinum