I'm using a Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS card on a clean install of Win 7 64bit and I DID NOT install the Creative drivers. Instead I let windows install it's own drivers. It still shows up properly in the hardware manager and works fine. But you don't have all the useless garbage that Creative packs in their software.

In my experience, a driver from Creative does nothing but create problems, even for their own hardware. Generic has always worked better for me. Go figure.

My next soundcard will not be Creative. It sounds fine and has some good features, but any company that can't deliver working drivers for their own equipment should find a new line of work.

Last edited by bobcflatpicker; 10/28/10 12:42 AM.