New Sound Card Worth it?

[Minicoop503]

why is there a full copy of my HJT log in one of my posts....... strange..... didnt notice that before.

yea, I was wondering what that was lol. :laugh:

[Jakg]

No, and how do you know what they sound like? They aren't releasing any x-fi pcie cards, all the new ones will be using the new x-fi2 sound chip.

...because i know that placing an em sheild between the X-Fi and your video card makes it sound better because it gets less interference from the GFX card - and the PCI-e slots are nearer the GFX card.

I know someone that mods lots of X-Fi's for better sound cards

[Rambo]

Since sound card are going to be obsolete with vista and future computers in mainstream i think onboard like me is fine

[duggerh2001@yahoo.com]

I just bought an extreme gamer and am running Vista premium(32).
and an Logitech 350 usb headset and with the gamer its really choppy at the begging of a map but with the Logitech it runs smooth as silk and since its running with the standard sound drivers since its usb its seen as a sound card it runs smooth as silk. Go figure so my point is boy is my face red.BF 2
runs better with my $20 headphones rather than my $100 sound card.
duggerh2001
p.s. yes i still suck

[Stormy{CAN}]

Since sound card are going to be obsolete with vista and future computers in mainstream i think onboard like me is fine

You keep thinking those happy thoughts.

If a game is written to use OpenAL (and BF2 is one of them) then with an Audigy/X-Fi it will sound the same in Vista as it does in XP, and use the cards capabilities (full EAX, hardware acceleration, etc).

I just bought an extreme gamer and am running Vista premium(32).
and an Logitech 350 usb headset and with the gamer its really choppy at the begging of a map but with the Logitech it runs smooth as silk and since its running with the standard sound drivers since its usb its seen as a sound card it runs smooth as silk. Go figure so my point is boy is my face red.BF 2
runs better with my $20 headphones rather than my $100 sound card.
duggerh2001
p.s. yes i still suck

And what are you plugging into the sound card? You do realize that USB headphones DO NOT use your sound card (either onboard or PCI).

Also for the X-Fi to work properly with games you need to set it to Game mode.

[duggerh2001@yahoo.com]

Yes I realize that it is seen as another soundcard and yes I have it on game mode,thats the only mode its ever in.
Thats why I wrote that the $20 dollar soundcard works better for me,than the $100 soundcard,not really whinning just one of those things that make you go "huh".
duggerh2001

[Stormy{CAN}]

That doesn't answer the question,

And what are you plugging into the sound card?

[duggerh2001@yahoo.com]

Soory 'bout that.
5.1 logitech speakers are plugged intop that and the soundcard is plugged into T Force PCI slot which is powered by an AMD64 3800 and 2 gigs of RAM.
No biggie just waiting like the rest of us for better drivers.Was driving me nuts,I suck anyway but this didint help either.Thanks for replying by the way.
I first thought it was my video card(Nvidia 7600GS) but after playing with the headset I noticed the problem dos'nt exist,but when I play with the headset off it reappers.
duggerh2001
It does really good with FEAR,RB Vegas and HL 2.

[Stormy{CAN}]

Make sure you are using the latest drivers from Creative's download page,

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

Will probably also help if you update the OpenAL that comes with the game. After updating your drivers go to Windows\System32 and look for wrap_oal.dll. Check the version number and if it isn't 2.1.4.0 go here,

http://developer.creative.com/articl...&top=38&aid=46

and get the latest. Then make a copy of wrap_oal.dll and put it someplace else (desktop is good), and rename it to BF2OpenAL.dll. Next go to your BF2 folder and locate and make a back up of the original (renaming it BF2OpenAL.dll.old works) and paste in the renamed one.

[duggerh2001@yahoo.com]

Will Do
Thanks
duggerh2001
Checked it its 2.1.4.0
and I have the latest drivers.
Thanks