Don Phillipson wrote:

The worst feature of this sound card is that its driver CD
(including Win98SE drivers) is copy-proofed against piracy

What is the possible reason for that?

Driver software that's copy-protected?

It appears only a single model of Audigy card (i.e. 24-bit)
has drivers to run under Win98SE.

Does Creative currently have that driver available for download?

The OP says he has an "Audigy SE". I'm not very familiar with the
Audigy line, but there appears to be an Audigy and Audigy2 line. Is
the "Audigy SE" part of the Audigy2 family, or can it use Audigy2
drivers?