Another hardware acceleration problem..... - by Enchantermon
Bjossi on 13/9/2006 at 14:59
It's not my fault that they are overpricing the Audigy 2. :p
Aekeron on 13/9/2006 at 15:56
Indeed - see my earlier point /re "£100 or so not worth it" :)
Bjossi on 13/9/2006 at 18:47
Yep, when it comes to price/power ratio, the Audigy 2 ain't the way to go. Although it is a good APU, just needs to be cheaper. :)
Enchantermon on 13/9/2006 at 20:20
Well, the Realtek HD drivers didn't change anything. I can still turn HA and EAX on, but they don't change the sound. Any other suggestions, or am I sunk?
Bjossi on 13/9/2006 at 21:26
I think you sunk long time ago and still don't know that you are drowned. :p
Enchantermon on 14/9/2006 at 02:20
Oh. Well.....that's depressing.
Matthew on 14/9/2006 at 08:20
Given that Creative don't (yet) produce an external X-Fi box, the Audigy 2 is the ONLY option for some people.
Bomb Bloke on 14/9/2006 at 10:20
I plug headphones into my old Intel box's on board sound card, and I can hear well enough to work out where the hybrids are hiding.
I don't really know much about EAX though. Does it use more then two speakers?
Enchantermon on 14/9/2006 at 11:35
No, what EAX does is it makes large, enclosed areas echo like they would in real life, and it fades a sound in as you get closer to it (for example, if a hybrid was running at you screaming from the end of a long hallway, the scream would start faint and grow louder as he got closer). There are other things too, I'm sure, but basically it makes the game sound more real. I'm not sure if you need it to make sounds come from only the left speaker when the source of the sound is on the player's left, from the right speaker when it is on the right, etc.
