Albert on 20/2/2010 at 04:27
Huh, well I recently found this youtube video of a thief gold fm where someone was actually using EAX and it worked fine for them. It's the weirdest thing.
Has anyone ever considered making a patch that copies some of the T2 settings and Dark engine features and combines them with T1/G? It'd be like that mod where SS2 was mixed with T1, but with some more obvious benefits.
NoMis on 23/2/2010 at 11:05
Quote Posted by lost_soul
I have long been hoping for someone to make a software emulator for EAX, because a lot of new sound cards do not support it. It can't possibly be that hard for a modern CPU to do. I've got a module player going right now with echo/surround effects applied, and though it is mixing 30+ instruments simultaneously, it only uses 1% of a relatively modest CPU.
This has already been done actually. Asus implemented EAX software emulation in their xonar d2 line of soundcards (they call it DS3D GX). Although that was more a marketing gag as it did not work or made problems in a considerable number of games (Dark engine games included), which I can tell by my own experience, since I had a xonar at one point but switched back to my X-Fi because of EAX. Even new drivers don't solve the bulk of problems.
Then there is Creative themselves that saw more competition from onbord audio and decided to do a software implementation called (
http://www.creative.com/oem/products/software/x-fimb.asp) X-Fi MB. Unfortunatly this is only a product that OEM's can buy and include with their PC's or mainbords and it only works on specific audio chips (I think realtek was actually the only one). I don't have any personal experience with the MB product but I guess since Creative should know their DSP that their software implementation would also work.
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2279009,00.asp) Here is an article about X-Fi MB.
