Actually, Aureal developed in house WDM-certified drivers for the Vortex2 chipset, and the MX300 is near enough to reference design for them to work perfectly on the card.

I do agree with you on the aspect about driver updates, but I must say in *someone's* defense that neither Diamond nor Creative have a good track record for software updates. If you want to know more about Creative's troubles, just go to ANY of their product support newsgroups. The Savage4 (Which I own) went for six months with no driver upgrade from Creative, even though S3 had released new driver sets. Creative promised to have drivers ready in two weeks.

About eight or nine months later, Creative finally put out those drivers.
Let's not even get into how the Live! behaves with SMP systems...And I know the MX300 doesn't support it in Windows NT, but the Win2K drivers DO support SMP.

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