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EAX® ADVANCED HD? GAMING feature...feedbacks plz

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PurePeon

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I am looking for a cheap sound card that supports EAX and I see this one had EAX 1.0 and 2.0 support. Does anyone have any feedback on it? I would go for audigy 2 but I am not spending $200Can on it. The Live is 100 bucks and the Audigy is 150. This card I can get for 75 bucks. I only got 2 speaker setup so I won't be taking advantage of the 7.1 anyways.

Thanks in advance for any feedback 🙂
 
i'm guessing it's no good 🙂

i noticed the audigy 2 has some good gaming features such as the EAX® ADVANCED HD? GAMING, does anyone have any feedback on how good this feature is?
 
Only the Audigy/Audigy2 support EAX Advanced HD. Unlike EAX 1.0/2.0, which is supported by every 3d sound card out there, EAX Advanced HD is proprietary to Creative so the only the newer Creative cards will see this support.

While the old EAX 1.0/2.0 standard may not have been all that great, EAX Advanced HD is another story completely. It's quite excellent in all the games I've played around with. To my ears, it's on par with A3D 2.0 before Aureal tanked.
 
Originally posted by: Brian48
Only the Audigy/Audigy2 support EAX Advanced HD. Unlike EAX 1.0/2.0, which is supported by every 3d sound card out there, EAX Advanced HD is proprietary to Creative so the only the newer Creative cards will see this support.

While the old EAX 1.0/2.0 standard may not have been all that great, EAX Advanced HD is another story completely. It's quite excellent in all the games I've played around with. To my ears, it's on par with A3D 2.0 before Aureal tanked.
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I don't know about the Audigy 2, but EAX HD totally kills the Audigy, performance wise.
 
Yes, it definitely does, but the Audigy2 has support for the additional hardware voices and the impact is not as severe. A good test vehicle for this is Jedi Outcast. Runs much better under Audigy2 than Audigy1 with EAX HD enabled. This reminds me of the Aureal days. A3D 2.0 sounded absolutely great, especially with games like HL, but you paid for it with a massive performance hit.
 
Originally posted by: Brian48
Yes, it definitely does, but the Audigy2 has support for the additional hardware voices and the impact is not as severe. A good test vehicle for this is Jedi Outcast. Runs much better under Audigy2 than Audigy1 with EAX HD enabled. This reminds me of the Aureal days. A3D 2.0 sounded absolutely great, especially with games like HL, but you paid for it with a massive performance hit.
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Well, I had an SQ2500 and never noticed a performance hit near as bad as EAX HD and my Audigy, EAX HD is nearly useless on the Audigy, IMO.
 
The difference is quite pronounced in games like SoF2, where positional sound from gunshots and footsteps makes a huge difference in gameplay. Its not such a big deal in games like WC3, where everything is pretty much in front of you anyways (from a sound field standpoint), but works well for build queues and sounds from the sides. As Brian mentioned, JK2 is an excellent game to demo EAX HD. Positional sound FX and speech are excellent with HD enabled.

I haven't noticed any significant performance hits when using EAX in Advanced HD enabled games, but the effect is probably more pronounced on slower CPUs. The benches from Tom's with standard EAX enabled showed the Audigy 1 and 2 using the least CPU cycles, no more than 5-10% performance hit. Advanced EAX HD also has some non-gaming applications that are quite nice, like DD-EX and 6.1 upmixing, as well as sound clean-up and time shifting. (I think those features are limited to the Audigy 2 though).

Chiz
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
Well, I had an SQ2500 and never noticed a performance hit near as bad as EAX HD and my Audigy, EAX HD is nearly useless on the Audigy, IMO.
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I was refering to the original iteration of the Vortex2 like the MX300 I had. The SQ2500 was the final revision and was little bit better in terms of performance, much like the Audigy2 is to the Audigy1 (almost). A3D 2.0 caused a horrendous performance hit back then, even on a relatively "high-end" system of the time like the PII333 (o/c'd 400mhz) + Voodoo2 I had. True, EAX HD may suck for you if you have an Audigy1 or slower system, but for those with an Audigy2, the difference is very apparent. I hope more games support this in the future 'cause it really adds to the game. SOF2 is like night and day with it disabled/enabled through a 5.1 setup.
 
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