Creative finally released drivers for their X-Fi cards just after Christmas installed them today and I now have sound. Once that was working 3 reboots later I decided to check if there was any new video drivers. nVidia released some new drivers for Vista on Jan 5th. I was hoping with them that I would be able to run Vista without the fan on my video card run full blast all the time. Instead the installer fails, Vista thinks that it is Age of Empires 2, I am not sure if the installer fails and Vista incorrectly tells me it was Age of Empires, or that Vista is killing it telling me it isn't compatible.
I wonder if all my hardware will be working correctly by the Jan 29th launch date.
On the plus side my computer now boots faster.