Audigy 2 ZS- what to install?

[Zygar]

I've finished building my new computer, and it's my first computer with a soundcard in it, an Audigy 2 ZS. Anyway, I put in the driver CD to install drivers, and there are 50 different applications! Naturally I got confused, as I have never owned a soundcard before. Anyway, I'm keeping this computer fairly minimal on the extras as I'm a gamer- I don't want unneccessary bloat slowning down games and lengthening boot times. I don't have surround sound, but I will probably want to watch DVD's on it at some point. I just have headphones. I'm not interested in using Creative's software to create my own audio files, as I have a few fast and small alternatives. Anyway, I want to get the max quality out of my soundcard for the smallest amount of programs bogging down my gaming performance. Can anyone help me here? Thanks.

 

[Bucksnort]

I have an audigy and all i install is creative mixer, drivers, audio hq, manual, creative diagnostics

 

[joecool]

creative does indeed introduce bloat but i'm not sure if you can really prevent it - most of it comes from the drivers themselves, while it installs a lot of apps i don't think any of them run in the background. good luck!