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Stability, bus issues, interoperability quirks between hardware/drivers for the APIs, etc.
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Mess with enough Aureal, Creative, Philips, Turtle Beach, Cmedia, ESS, etc PCI 3D audio cards in Windows 98 and Windows XP, and you might notice common problems among them. The problem with hardware audio is it was quirky and not everyone cared to pay for it so it was niche.
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>_< on what's become acceptable now a day.
#X FI XTREME GAMER SB0770 DRIVERS#
It also lacks all hardware acceleration for DS3D (no xp drivers also), EAX and OpenAL. The best SBX can do is blend HRTF between 7.1 audio channels in software. I dislike however that they are now over reliant on SBX (a rebranded THX TruStudio) post processing 3D effects. The new Audigy's are proof that there was no reason to phase out that older chip, and all they really need is that software support (of course they adapted it over to PCI-e with a bridge chip). Just lacking quality first party driver support.ĭrivers.always the bane of any hardware's lifespan. If it wasn't plagued by so many software problems and the few speaker hiss issues in the earlier versions hardware design, it would be a really nice card all in all. The new SB-Z series use the same quartet DSP but have the mips core removed, so the X-FI is better suited for offloading CPU usage as shown by the many benchmarks. Spec-wise the X-FI should have a nicer processor than the Audigy2, able to work with 128 DS3D/OpenAL audio streams vs the Audigy's 64, and support for EAX5 along with higher s/n ratios. He eventually upgraded to the X-FI Fatal1ty and immediately ran into issues involving major pops and speaker noise, and compatibilities running with SLI, so he gave it away to his friend. My cousin was a big fan of the Audigy2zs and never encountered any major issues with it.