Dolby Sorround

[ohwell78]

I am pissed nforce 4 boards do not have sound storm! I run my audio into my home theater reciever and currently I do not get surround sound in games such as Doom 3. I am wondering what are some soundstorm like alternatives?

My current sound is the integrated MSI neo 4 platinum sound. Its ran out through a optical line into the reciever. But again I do not get true surround in games.

I have looked at the Montego DDL sound card, and was wondering what Intel's High Definition Audio is in terms of game play back. I am also considering the new Audigy, but the card does not have an optical out for the receiver.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Does your receiver have 5.1 analog input?

In addition to the Montego, there is also the HDA X-Mystique as a DDL card.

The entire audigy line does not support DDL.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1671938&enterthread=y ?

 

[alcoholbob]

Hah...Dolby Surround is 2.0.

You are thinking of Dolby Digital

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
Hah...Dolby Surround is 2.0.

You are thinking of Dolby Digital

No, he said "Dolby Sorround"

 

[Stretchman]

I am pissed nforce 4 boards do not have sound storm!

Ahhh, good old Soundstorm. I miss those days - it seemed like a fine thing to add, and saved me from having to take up one of the two pci slots on my mini-pc. Why did Nvidia ditch soundstorm anyway?

 

[alcoholbob]

Possibly involving the poor sound quality (low bitrate) of Dolby Digital (just imagine a 128kbps mp3 ripped from material that was low bitrate to start with, as most games are). It would only do for people who happen to insist on 1 connection only (digital) to a receiver.

It involves very few users, so they probably ditched it for that.