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Very, Very Old
Before you buy this, ask yourself if you want to pay $100 for a ten year old sound card. The included CD contains Windows 7 software. The instructions talk about Windows 7 and 8. No mention at all of 10. This is apparently because it was manufactured a long time ago, boxed up, and sat on a shelf. And the price never came down.
Does it work in Windows 10? Yes, it appears to work ok. You have to live with all the old fashioned looking installers and software. And you have to wonder if it will continue to be supported, since it's already so old.
I remember buying a Sound Blaster card for my Macintosh back in the day. Creative made a lot of promises, but they actually never completely supported the card and abandoned it almost immediately, leaving me with a very costly paperweight. My irritation over this faded during the last 15 years. Now it's back, because apparently I'm paying 100 dollars for Windows Vista junk.
Come on, Creative. If you care about your customers at all, you have to lower the price of your nearly obsolete offerings.
June 2019 · Electronics · verified purchase