EAX, who likes it? Good, bad, indifferent?

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: EAX, who likes it? Good, bad, indifferent?

i use a sb live! and i dont really notice a big diff between eax and no eax unless i listen really closely to the echoes...i sometimes just turn it off for performance

[-[MDS]-Stormy]

Re: EAX, who likes it? Good, bad, indifferent?

PLus X-Fi has this CMSS technology to make headphones sound more 3D, and a 24-bit crystalizer that makes compressed MP3 sounds seem like uncompressed CD quality.

CMSS is available on all Audigy series cards as well, not just the X-Fi.

The Crystalizer is X-fi only.

And I'm with Talus all the way, EAX on always.

[Talus]

Re: EAX, who likes it? Good, bad, indifferent?

Holy moly...ditch those SBLive cards and at LEAST pick up a cheap Audigy 2

The X-Fi Xtreme Music is not very expensive either.

[)-SiN-( Max666]

Re: EAX, who likes it? Good, bad, indifferent?

Yeah, EAX and 5.1 all the way.

I'm running an X-Fi Xtreme Music on a Logitech Z-5300 5.1 speaker system (or my LTB Platinum 5.1 headphones when I need to be quiet).

Running BF2 in X-Fi and Ultra High audio mode.

I can hear artillery being fired from a fair distance...couple that with a recently capped flag = MOVE, SOLDIER!

I can hear vehicles and armor LONG before they get close.

I can hear snipers from quite a fair distance..couple that with the 5.1 positional audio and I can find 'em every time...even while piloting an attack chopper (my copilot is always amazed)

I can hear footsteps and can even tell if they are in the same room or on the other side of a wall.

If I hear enemy radio chatter with a little echo, I can tell it's coming from within the building or hangar.

BF2 is a GREAT aural experience

Hummmm every time i try ultra high it kicks me from 60fps or more down to 30fps . Mind you all i play are 64 player servers , noticed it wasnt as bad with 32 players . Allso on ultra high it shutters like crazy for me . Ive done the open al fix and all my Pci latency are set at 64 ?? Allso the sound and gfx cards are on there own IRQ??

Amd 64x2 3800+
Asus A8v DX mobo
2 gigs ddr 400 Ocz platinum
Ati x850xt 256mb agp
x-fi extreme music

[Talus]

Re: EAX, who likes it? Good, bad, indifferent?

I have no FPS slowdown (that I'm aware of) with Ultra High mode. Also, I'm NOT using the OpenAL fix.

Maybe I'll try playing a few matches in regular 'High' mode...but I just don't wanna :cry: