Vista gaming sound card

[imported_MadHatter]

Creative's latest X-Fi drivers get the distinct honor of giving me my very first Vista blue screen...and that's using Vista on 4 different machines with varying hardware over the past year. I've had it with their piece of $hit drivers, randomly cutting out, deciding that the rear left speaker is actually my front right and then randomly correcting itself.

Someone please tell me there is an alternative for gaming in Vista in surround sound. Please!

 

[postmortemIA]

the best-rest does EAX 2.0 in software emulation and sounds like shite.

ever played half-life in software mode? and then in directx/open gl mode? that is the difference.

 

[imported_MadHatter]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
the best-rest does EAX 2.0 in software emulation and sounds like shite.

ever played half-life in software mode? and then in directx/open gl mode? that is the difference.

Yeah, I don't want to give up quality gaming audio, I just hoped that someone else has made progress in the market that is better at writing drivers.

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: MadHatter

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
the best-rest does EAX 2.0 in software emulation and sounds like shite.

ever played half-life in software mode? and then in directx/open gl mode? that is the difference.

Yeah, I don't want to give up quality gaming audio, I just hoped that someone else has made progress in the market that is better at writing drivers.

asus xonar

 

[ourfpshero]

for gaming its a one horse race- x-fi
even the best of the rest- asus and razer cards- are a very distant 2nd in gaming 3d audio. the c-media chips on those cards sound absoultely horrible in newer eax games when 3d audio is enabled. they still use 6 year old 3d algorithms developed by Sensaura b4 it was swallowed by creative labs
the new asus cards have a special driver that 'tricks' games into thinking that eax5 hardware is present but still gives out eax2 effects. pathetic.
real competition is needed and welcome

 

[themisfit610]

the best-rest does EAX 2.0 in software emulation and sounds like shite.

ever played half-life in software mode? and then in directx/open gl mode? that is the difference.

That's a huge overstatement. What game sounds _that_ much better in EAX 5.0 hardware vs pure software?

~MiSfit

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: themisfit610

the best-rest does EAX 2.0 in software emulation and sounds like shite.

ever played half-life in software mode? and then in directx/open gl mode? that is the difference.

That's a huge overstatement. What game sounds _that_ much better in EAX 5.0 hardware vs pure software?

~MiSfit

I enjoyed recently

Medieval total war ii
Bioshock

I've tried MTW II on a card that had only EAX 2.0 support, and it was totally different, you could tell that there's no depth in any of voices.

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: MadHatter

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
the best-rest does EAX 2.0 in software emulation and sounds like shite.

ever played half-life in software mode? and then in directx/open gl mode? that is the difference.

Yeah, I don't want to give up quality gaming audio, I just hoped that someone else has made progress in the market that is better at writing drivers.

from my understanding i dont think your explanation is entirely correct but i dont know enough to argue

 

[ourfpshero]

Originally posted by: themisfit610

the best-rest does EAX 2.0 in software emulation and sounds like shite.

ever played half-life in software mode? and then in directx/open gl mode? that is the difference.

That's a huge overstatement. What game sounds _that_ much better in EAX 5.0 hardware vs pure software?

~MiSfit

ut3 and bf2142