x-fi xtreme music. currently on like the 20th reinstall. the driver will work fine, but i can't get any of the 500 consoles required to actually control the sound to work, so anything other than windows default sounds sounds like ass. i'm currently trying to install off the disk that came with it, since i've now been through every single combination of drivers and software, including betas, offered on creative's website for my card. i don't hold out much hope for this, since the disk is for XP and dated from 2005. although IIRC there WAS some stuff i had to install off the disk to get it to work last time.
i REALLY don't want to contact support. last time i did that, there were 2 day delays for emails that were nothing more than automated responses saying the same useless **** as the readmes on the website. i don't think a real person EVER saw my requests.