What do you think of the professional version?
If its anything like vista, i will be staying well clear. Had it on my vaio laptop and it was haddock. got it removed and put the most up to date xp on. took ages to get all the right drivers but miles better os. ugh i get a sore head thinking about how bad vista is! enough of my rant. i will wait till i see this windows 7 under pressure before i comment on it!
Been running windows 7 RC on my pc for ages runs fine and faster than my xp tho that installation had issues hence the change.
I do have one big gripe tho if you have a creative labs sound card STAY AWAY from vista and win 7 or ditch it as i have had nothing but trouble and this is a common theme Creative fault for poor driver support not microsoft I believe. I will not be buying another creative sound card howeve I actually am considering Windows 7 over XP for now.
Have you tried installing the driver update through Windows Update? Even after installing the latest driver from Creative's website, a driver update kept showing up in Windows Update. I've also run this exact same card (in the same rig of course) under Windows 7 RC and it worked just fine. It even retained all the functionality.
Ain't the Xtreme Gamer one of the early cards made before Vista came out? The newer Titaniums were made to be Vista compatible. And since 7 is pretty much Vista SE, they work fairly well under it.
Just checked to be sure and yes, the Titanium cards do use a different or at least revised chip. The older ones such as your use the older EMU20K1 chip while the Titaniums use the newer EMU20K2 chip.
Also Auzentech sells some cards that use X-Fi chips. There are 2 models with the newer EMU20K2 they are the Forte and HomeTheater HD. Their Prelude card still uses the older EMU20K1 chip.
And upon further reading I have discovered that the EMU20K2 does indeed fix problems related to the older chip that drivers couldn't solve such as a constant popping noise. My Audigy had that problem even in XP.
Just wondering what people think? My first impressions weren't very good... a friend was DJ'ing last night with all the software running off his laptop and windows 7 decided it wanted to update itself and restart in the middle of a set. I did have to laugh very hard, just thought id share it with you guys... here are some pics