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How to get the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro THX working correctly on Windows Server 2016

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How to get the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro THX working correctly on Windows Server 2016 Not able to get the Creative Entertainment Console working after installing the drivers from the original driver CD on Windows Server 2016 for your Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro THX ? Although the Sound Blaster device is able to playback sounds without any issue, Creative Entertainment Console will just refuse to launch and complaint that the driver is not present. Looking at the Device Manager, there is no error or missing drivers. How do you go about fixing this issue? After some trial and error, I have managed to get it working. You will need to download the Windows 10  version of the driver from Creative support page, but not all revision of the Windows 10 driver will work.  The version used in this blog post is the [5 Nov 19] release. To get the original CD's Creative Entertainment Console(version 3.00.64) working correctly in Windows 2016, do the foll