I have been looking for a cheap but good sound card that is good for gaming. I dont want to go over $150 or any creative sound cards because i always run into problems with the drivers. any suggestions?
For the very reason you mentioned about drivers, plus Creative support, I wouldn't use creative, also the fact that Asus make probably the best sound cards, even from a budget orientated purchase, they outperform the higher end cards from other manufacturers
I have a Creative X-Fi xTreme Gamer Edition sound card, and I will agree that the drivers are a pain to work with sometimes, but once I got everything sorted out, it's been perfect for me.
Even though I do like my sound card, and it does give me VERY nice 5.1 surround sound, I would actually recommend the cards Aastii mentioned, simply because, you guessed it, better driver support.
i had a creative card for about 2 years and idk if it was the drivers or the card but at random times the audio just randomly stopped and i had to reboot to get it back, it slowly got worst so i just took it out. now its sitting in its box.