yeah I found it only worked with SB live 24bit under win 2k and only the drivers that came on the CD, did not work with any of the public driver releases on the net. That was the only and last time I had EAX working until about a month afo when I got my first Xonar card.
Worked well for all games except one where it was over exaggerated and the sound stops after 5 min. I have no idea why only that game does it, but it is the only one that uses the windows included direct sound dll's via the registry values rather than the game's own dll's. So basically it's using the windows included EAX libraries not it's own which all my other games do.
I wish I knew enough how to mod the registry to tell it to look in it's own directory which would allow me to experiment with alternative dll's to try fix it.
I am going to try the same game on my daily PC with win 7 and this Phoebus card and see if it works. My retro PC is using win server 2003 x64 as normal XP lacks functionality and support for the hardware I am using.
But I can say ut2004 sounds amazing with EAX working once again which I haven't heard since the game was brand new.
I heard some people use a bit of paid software from creative called Alchemy MB or something like that which emulates EAX on any card on new OSs to restore function to games. Because it's creative and it's a paid software I would not risk my money given 90% of their products I have had were not fit for their purpose.