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Almost everybody's heard of this one before, but for those who haven't, you can do a small driver modification to get this functionality back in Vista. The reason I'm posting this is because it's been an annoyance for many people including myself, and because I've had so many problems with my X-Fi with Vista, I've posted fixes for my problems so others don't have to experience them.
Basically Dell has a working driver with the X-Fi on Vista that allows these features, and it's one simple file that does it. First you have to download the full driver archive from Dell here:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R144728.EXE
(The archive is 25MB - I considered making a new archive with just the necessary files for this modification, but didn't want to be accused of posting viruses)
Next, unpack it (select the default directory in the unpacker) and select one of the following ctac32k.sys files in one of the following folders (based on your OS version):
Vista 32bit: X:\Dell\Drivers\R144728\Drivers\WDM\win2k_xp\i386\ctac32k.sys
Vista 64bit: X:\Dell\Drivers\R144728\Drivers\WDM\win2k_xp\amd64\ctac32k.sys
And once you've selected this file, copy it to the C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ folder. It may be a good idea to make a backup of the original file before doing so, as it seems to be smart with any modification of important files.
After that, restart your computer, and open the Creative Audio Console and the Decoder tab and all other decoder options (Such as in the SPDIF settings) should be present.
Hope this works for everybody like it did for me, good luck.
Wer das so macht wie im Text hat den Dolby und Dts decoder unter Vista bei mir ging es
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