While I agree with you Matthew, your sound card is an old model, and not exactly high end which doesn't support PAP so the audio will be downgraded.
You should direct your ire at Creative as they write the drivers, they really don't care about customers unless they are embarrassed into writing working drivers. I should know, I have a high end card a X-Fi Fatality well back in the day and it took them forever, loads of complaints and one person who got there drivers working for them.
By the way I also have your card as well.
As far as stuttering playback could be a number of things SATA, Video, or Audio drivers, conflicting codecs, Blu ray drive firmware needs updating, other software conflicts i.e. anti-virus, PowerDVD needs reinstalling etc...
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