What is the best sound card that can pass through spdif DD & DTS (from DVD's) through programs such as Theatertek but also works inmodern games? I currently own a Chaintek AV-710 and use optical SPDIF to my reciever to a pair of Axiom speakers. But this chaintek card really sucks in games. I'm not the biggest gamer (yet happen to own a 7800GTX 512 meg card, go figure) but when my relative was playing BF2 on my PC the sound popped like something awful. WHen I ran the FEAR demo the machine guns seemed like they were clipping, for each bullet shot the sound card couldn't create the sound for the bullet.... Not to mention I really hate this Chaintek card...
So what is the best card for DD. DTS to a receiver (using Theaterk via optical out to a reciever) that is also good for games (IE the game won't pop and sound like crap..). Looking at these creative X-Fi cards it seems as though they do no have SPDIF out or support DD and DTS. While the opposite is true for even the cheapest budget cards (IE they support SPDIF optical out, Dolby Digital, DTS etc, yet suck for games) So... which is the best sound card for both worlds? Does such a card even exist?
So what is the best card for DD. DTS to a receiver (using Theaterk via optical out to a reciever) that is also good for games (IE the game won't pop and sound like crap..). Looking at these creative X-Fi cards it seems as though they do no have SPDIF out or support DD and DTS. While the opposite is true for even the cheapest budget cards (IE they support SPDIF optical out, Dolby Digital, DTS etc, yet suck for games) So... which is the best sound card for both worlds? Does such a card even exist?
