Has anyone tryed the Audigy 1&2 EAX Advanced HD Performance Beta? Link inside.

[BoomAM]

Hi, i`ve just noticed these on the Creative Labs Website. Has anyone tryed them.
http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/product.asp?bypass=1&category=2&os=10&driverlang=1&prod=226&drivertype=1
Heres the official info on them.

EAX ADVANCED HD Performance Beta Release 07/05/2003 19:58:00



This package is an official Creative Labs Beta Release but is NOT provided for download by Creative.
The link below will take you to www.tomshardware.com where you will be able to download the beta package. This release is primarily for Sound Blaster Audigy users and significantly improves gaming performance for all cards in the Sound Blaster Audigy range. It does however also provide benefits for the Audigy 2 family of cards (as shown below).

This release is ideal for high-end gamers who want even better performance than they currently enjoy. This release has been tested by Creative Labs for gaming use ONLY. No other functionality has been tested. It should be noted that the Sound Blaster applications provided with your card may not function after installation of this driver. For mixer and speaker configuration the standard Windows apps can be used.

This release will be followed up with a final official driver update that will integrate the performance features with the core driver and application set. The beta release is designed to stop functioning on the 1st of August 2003 by which time the final release previously mentioned will be available.

This update is exclusively for Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy 2 users running on Windows 2000 or XP ONLY.

Fixes & Features:
Sound Blaster Audigy Specific
Sound Blaster Audigy performance increased by 10%-15% for EAX ADVANCED HD
Number of simultaneous voices has been doubled from 32 to 64
Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy 2 Benefits
Reverb presets setting by game audio engine is now on average 10X faster
EAX Morphing performance enhanced, typically yielding a 2X improvement in frame-rates for morphed sections.




Operating Systems:
Windows XP
Languages:
English
Downloads:
1262 (Yesterday)
Size:
13.956 MBytes (approx 48 minutes @ 56.6Kbits/s)
Filename:
aud_betadrv_030417.exe

 

[Rand]

Would be interested in hearing anyone's comments if they've given them a try.

 

[foofoo]

installed them last night on my audigy 1. they seem to be working just fine, though i havent tried anything fancy. i didnt benchmark the cpu usage before installing so i cant tell if they are really any better that way.
so far, so good.

 

[BoomAM]

foofoo,
do you have any games that ran badly/slowly with EAX/EAX HD switched on before? If so, can you check them with these beta drivers please.

 

[NFS4]

Creative...Beta Drivers...

Whoosh, I'd run!!!

 

[BoomAM]

34520 posts, OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG......and so on.
Thats alot. No, scrub that, thats an insainly high amount of posts.
Everyone bow at NFS4s feet...
lol

 

[Brian48]

This has already be posted a while back. You might want to scroll back a few days. There was some, but not a lot of feedback on it though.

 

[RyanVM]

Couldn't tell ya. I'm already running the .383 drivers (the beta ones are .381) that were released for the Audigy2. It takes extremely little work to make them work with Audigy/Live cards and they work great!

 

[foofoo]

do you have any games that ran badly/slowly with EAX/EAX HD switched on before? If so, can you check them with these beta drivers please.

sorry, this is in my secondary machine and i usually play games on my main one. my friends that use this machine hadnt had any problems before and i cant do a real compare.
if you tell me a game that you want me to try and i have it, i'll play a level and let you know how it is....

 

[IncendiaryLemon]

They tweaked the default mixer settings or something of the sort, the sound is clearer.

I've really had no problems with them which is tickertape territory for a creative product.

 

[BoomAM]

Unreal2, Splinter Cell, any game that uses EAX really.