Realtek HD Audio For Vista Help?

Sorry but simply put your Audio card must not support 7.1 surround. As for the Control Panel, most of them do look lame, like Win98 lame, but that's the way it's been, even with my Realtek HD card for my laptop and my built-in RealTek AC '97 audio card in my Vista PC. Just so you know nothing's wrong, that's just how it is.