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I am currently using my mobos Intel Audio Studio 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem, S/PDIF digital audio output (optical) using the Sigmatel* 9274D audio codec with Logitech Z-5500 Speakers. Does anybody have the same speakers and/or had/have the same setup I have that can say it it worth upgrading to creatives new Sounds Cards?

The following responses will not help,* creative is the best, creative rocks, etc*

Thanks:up:

I want to enjoy SH4 to the fullest. When is patch 1.3 coming out by the way?

No mother board to my (limited) knowlage supports EAX. it is highly proprietary. from what i understand, maybe... in the future they may license it. that being said...

our games are programed to use EAX (im pretty sure SH4 uses it?) so why not take full advantage of it rather than emulate it.

i just upgraded rigs, my old rig used a Audigy 2ZS platinum, i now run XFI gamer (~70 bucks at newegg). to be honest, i cant really tell the difference in sound between the two cards... but the game has always sounded great to me in 5.1 with my creative speakers. I think a creative card will be a step up from any MB audio, but i didnt find any change when i 'moved up' from audigy to the XFI. however, people rave about XFI?

ps. this thread may get better exposure in the main forum...

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Originally Posted by ATR-42

You are probably right about both, posting in the main forum and about EAX. Heres a link that describes my onboard soundcard. It supports all Dolby standards ,Dolby Pro, Dolby II etc,even DTS. The max it supports is eight channels at 192 kHz/32-bit quality http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/hdaudio.htm Still might get a new card that supports a optical connection.

Still waiting for the proper VISTA app from Creative for my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - Fatal1ty Professional...pretty bad suport there :(

Yes!...your absolutely right, Captain......

Creatives support for Vista OS is not good and slow comming, for some reason....I have several games, Like Medieval II TW, that need EAX to get the best sound quality.

....although SH4 is very nice in 5.1 througn the X-Fi Xtreme Gamer.

I guess we wait...:damn:

What i can say is you will improve a lot your FPS using a PCI sound card with hardware acceleration for sounds.

It save lot of your processor resources, i was using my motherboard sound card and having lot of FPS troubles in SH III, after upgarde to a X-Fi, FPS rise up a lot.

There is an X-Fi with build-in own 64Mb RAM memory.

Thanks for that tid bit of information REDWINE , you reminded me of the fact that soundcards take some load of the CPU. That basically tells ya I have just got back into gaming. Made a trip to newegg and got the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series. I am using fiber so I needed that special little box you stick in a rom drives spot :up: . Hopefully it will get here in a few days.

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Originally Posted by Torps

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I was surprised about the FPS improvement i reach after the X-Fi installation, i have the version with no build in memory, it is souposed that with build in memory must to run much better.

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Found and installed this just now. Has the "Creative Console Launcher" "Auto Update" and all.
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ssage.id=17369

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