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Monster Sound MX300 drivers anywhere?

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Chriz

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Ok, i just installed Windows 2000. It has Vortex 2 drivers that i can use with my MX300 but they totally suck. Half of the time when i boot up the sound doesn't work at all. Plus, the sound is pretty choppy. www.aureal.com has nothing. support.aureal.com doesn't work. I went to S3's website at www.s3.com and all they have is Windows 98 drivers from February of 99. Does anyone know where i can get some better 2000 drivers? This sucks.
 
<<Does anyone know where i can get some better 2000 drivers? This sucks.>>

Yea... go get yourself a SoundBlaster Live!, they have *much* better 2000 drivers. Aureal bankrupt and was bought by Creative. You can forget about future driver support for your Vortex2.
 
I am running the W2K drivers just fine with my M300. Unfortunatly, with the death of Aureal and Diamond/S3 having non-existant support, I'm afraid we're SOL.

You car try here Aureal but I'm content right now but best of luck sorting through it all.

Windogg
 
I've had the strangest fascination lately. Have you ever gone clay pigeon shooting? Well, I've had this weird fascination with loading my MX300 into the launcher and blasting it with my shotgun like a clay pigeon. I think that would be so cool. Too bad I payed so much for the damn thing.
 
I'm in the midst of replacing my mx300, too, with a Live! 5.1. The mx300 served me well and still would be fine if aureal hadn't tanked and a3d was the preemo 3d sound api. Oh well, go with the punches.
 
Doomguy: Nope, it didnt happen. Creative delivered, took them pretty long but worked perfectly.
 
Yes, I agree if Aureal's management hadn't embezzled all of the company's money and thrown it to the sharks, I would probably still be quite satisfied with it as driver updates would undoubtedly continue to be released. As it stands now, I am starting to feel it slip away into oblivion. Aureal's drivers have never done a good job with Windows 2000. I remember when Windows 2000 first came out, I was running a dual PIII 500 machine with the MX300 and the aureal drivers would just not work in a dual CPU environment under win2k. You see this fact mentioned a couple of times in Anandtech's Buyers Guides from back before Aureal's troubles began. They repeatedly passed it over in the high end recommendation b/c it would not work with dual or more cpus running win2k while Creatives Live worked with no problems...
 
A3D in games like Thief really add a ton of atmosphere. Thief was the first game I played where listening to your environment was truly important. Sure you could argue stereo sound in the Doom was similarly revolutionary but if an Imp comes from the left or right it really didn't matter did it? 😉

I'm looking forward to the Live! 5.1. I'll move up to a digital connection, get a 3D api that doesn't lockup in newer games (hopefully), and with the Live Drive IR the ability (finally!) to make some high quality recordings of some music I have on VHS! Add a neato-keen game bundle to the mix: UT, MDK2, Thief 2, Deus Ex... for $169 and I'll be happy!
 
JellyBaby: Hm... I thought Thief actually sounded better in EAX. CL is proud of the support Thief had and bundled the game in with their X-gamer.
 
<< JellyBaby: Hm... I thought Thief actually sounded better in EAX. >>

Beats me, LXi. I've played Thief 1 under MX300 and the positional sounds were excellent. I don't know how well EAX sounds in that title (or in Thief 2 for that matter) but soon I'll be able to experiment with both games and EAX 2.0.
 
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