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You are probably silly like me and went and purchased Vista didn’t you? You’re probably swearing allot if again, like me, you’ve purchased a creative sound card for your PC.
2 very dull moves since Creative and Vista are both significant pieces of shit, lesson learned, let’s try to live with our mistakes.

Here’s a few things I’ve done to fix the snap, crackle, pop that comes with the onslaught of drivers combos that don’t work with Vista. Chances are you’ve got to this point because you’ve noticed that Creative’s latest drivers, combined with Vista does not let you properly have 5.1 audio. So you’ve had to dig and dig to finally find the hacked ones that do enable proper 5.1 sound.

Here’s what I did.

First try this:
Mute all levels: Line in, line in 2, mic, mic 2, aux, aux 2 and whatever else you don’t need.

Next, open creative’s audio console, make sure 5.1 speakers are chosen ( or whatever your speakers are ), change stuff till the crackling stops.

Still no go ? Turn CMSS off

That should do it… If not, uninstall everything, delete all things creative, shut down. Remove your card, reboot. Shut down, put your card in a different slot, reboot. Install drivers.

Good luck and always remember this lesson you’ve learned.

Cheers.