I've recently upgraded from an old hercules digifire to a sb x-fi fatality fps and noticed a nice little improvement in fps in quake 4. Reading posts on other forums such as esreality it seems quite a lot of people are suffering from bad fps due to their soundcard.
Its the first time i myself have come across a soundcard as a major bottleneck in a game but it appears that its something to do with openAL or EAX. I dont know if there is a similar problem with any other games that have been released other than quake4 so if anyone knows of them please reply.
Has anyone seen any benchmarks for games between recent soundcards as all i've been able to find is comparing cpus + gfx? I think this would be quite an interesting read.
Its the first time i myself have come across a soundcard as a major bottleneck in a game but it appears that its something to do with openAL or EAX. I dont know if there is a similar problem with any other games that have been released other than quake4 so if anyone knows of them please reply.
Has anyone seen any benchmarks for games between recent soundcards as all i've been able to find is comparing cpus + gfx? I think this would be quite an interesting read.
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