14 pages of complaints and the releasing of a beta driver suggest that there is definitely a problem.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=142502

I still think it is 64bit Vista which is particularly prone to the problem.

I suppose it is possible that the MS OS updates (I got another 8 this morning!) keep making that Creative driver redundant but is definitely the driver because when I tried reverting to the old driver, the problem went away. Actually my operating system is still claiming the old driver is in place, whereas the Creative update process says the new one is in place.

I am going to try the beta driver. I'll probably do it after work tonight - just in case anything critical is affected.


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