How come no other soundcards support EAX3? Other than Audigys

[BlueEyedBeezlebub]

I ordered a nforce2 motherboard and can't wait for it to throw out the Kt266a and via forever, along with creative labs audigy and have a stable athlon setup once and for all. but why dont any other soundcards (cirrus logic, nforce) support eax3 (eax advanced hd)?

it sounds great and of course with no competing standards it will be used more frequently than any others but myself have quit caring if i have it or not.

but sounds like the soundstorm could pretty much do whatever it takes to be a audigy/audigy2.. do they have to pay creative for the licensing?

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: BlueEyedBeezlebub
I ordered a nforce2 motherboard and can't wait for it to throw out the Kt266a and via forever, along with creative labs audigy and have a stable athlon setup once and for all. but why dont any other soundcards (cirrus logic, nforce) support eax3 (eax advanced hd)?

it sounds great and of course with no competing standards it will be used more frequently than any others but myself have quit caring if i have it or not.

but sounds like the soundstorm could pretty much do whatever it takes to be a audigy/audigy2.. do they have to pay creative for the licensing?

The EAX API is owned by Crative... they open sourced EAX1/2 to get a braoder adoption of the technology industry wide. With EAX3(HD) Creative choose to keep it Audigy1/2 specific. It's their API and their choice whether it gets open sourced.