I have an audigy and I am dissapointed in Creative's driver support. It took them quite sometime for them to release drivers for XP and even then I had problems listening to heaphones on the card (the sound would reset to the highest level whenever I rebooted).
My friend has a Hercules Fortisssimo card and I am impressed with the level of control the drivers/software give you. You can change the volume for individual speakers (front-right, back-left, etc.) if you have a 4.1 or above set up. Creative as far as I can find only can change the volume for each channel (right or left). If I needed a new card right now, that is what I would go with.
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