Pros: Installed it. Have not tried to run it.

Cons: DRM instantly kills any software review as far as I am concerned. I pay for my gaming software. I am fully aware of the problem with game cracks and perceived income to game publishers (did not say developers, I said publishers). I don't crack my games.

Other Thoughts: I come from a time when you the protection game software used was to ask the owner to enter a random series of characters from text book gaming manual. That was good DRM to me. I know you an PDF the same thing these days, but that was acceptable DRM to me. Annoying, but 100% available to me.
If I lost the book, it was my fault. But I had control over that.

If UPlay is unreachable, does the game play? Saves work?

That is a rating killer for me regardless of the design, complexity, beauty, and epic story of any gaming title.

Pros: Creative brand name. Wanted to like it. Intended to replace a still working SB0460 X-FI card (PCI 32bit card).
Went back to the old card and the problems with the new card went away.

Cons: Experience ...
Seems buggy and prone to software crashes. Might be board compatibility, not sure.
Plugged into lowest PCIE_8 slot on my z68 board.
Driver it up.

Strike 1:
In experimenting with the different profile settings, encountered logged service stopped responding in "Creative Audio Service" and it's parent "Windows Audio" (NT Services). The profile panel would go blank.

Strike 2:
There is a red desktop knob with with built-in microphone. I cannot use it due to feedback over the speakers I have even with all of the "CrystalVoice" smart volume, noise reductuion, acoustic echo cancellation and focus settings being used. It's basically an expensive volume knob on my desk.

Strike 3:
I was considering trying to troubleshoot further, but my breaking point was popping noises I get while in headphones and a maximized Chrome browser window with Adobe Flash content running. The previous card doesn't do that.

Glad I didn't mail order this card and went to an actual store to buy it.

See other thoughts.

Other Thoughts: I may be running into a strange partial compatibility issue. This card occupies the bottom-most PCIE_8 slot in an SLI PCIE_16 setup using an NF200 chip to multiplex the PCIE lanes.

I DID NOT BUY THIS FROM NEWEGG. Got it from a store that 'flies' (sounds like).

Been running Creative Labs hardware since the SB16 ISA cards. Loved the AWE32 back in the day. Simpler, I guess.