Wich PCI sound card .........?

[Redwine]

Hi all....

Please, can you tell wich PCI sound card are you using and if it works fine and with no sound bugs into SH3 ?

I was using an onboard SoundMax from my Asus motherboard, it works fine, no bugs, but it take too much CPU resourses.

Then i decide to back to my old Creative Sound Blaster 1024 Live! Gamer.
It works better because i have more FPS, but has some sound bugs, extremelly anoying sopunds, i was enforced to reduce hardware acelleration and change the default SB Live! Synthesizer by SB Live! SW Synthesizer into the settings.

The mnather is i understand SW means Soft Ware, then it not use sound board hardware acelleration and back to use my CPU resources.

Is there a good sound card to buy, PCI slot wich works fine with SH3, and if posible ready for DX 10 ?

Any help will be welcome....

Thanks in advance.


PD :

This is my card, i found this article on the web, aparently there was many people with problems with this card, due to it was an OEM and Creative DO NOT provide drivers for this card to end users....

Look how the autor tells "Drivers Hell"

http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/sblive/live_ct4830.shtml

I have another old one, wich do not use EAX (Enviromental Audio) instead it uses AVx (Aureal Vortex) wich in my opinion is so much better than EAX, but it is so old, only 324 voices.

I need to buy a new one but i need comments about the cards on stores and feedback from users confirming they works properly on SH3 .

Many thanks in advance....