New Sound Card

[Himself]

http://www.gamersdepot.com/hardware/...c_edge/001.htm

Sounds too good to be true.

[HollyBerri]

WOW!!!!

Thanks for the heads-up!

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Holly

[Wombat]

Okay, that review has me impressed. However, I wouldn't consider this card unless it supports EAX and/or A3D2. Too many games are coded with these standards in mind.

Also, no info about CPU utilization.

[kjliew]

Another good candidate to compete with SBLive!.

Wombat,
Have you ever come across any non Aureal-based soundcards that are capable of supportting A3D 2.0??

Anyone has any real experience with Santa Cruz??

For all you SBLive! folks out there, is the latest SBLive! driver for Win2k and WinME WDM-based driver??

[Himself]

Hmm, there seems to be a new liveware 3 archive on Creative's site dated 10/19/00.

Downloading it now.

I couldn't tell you if the drivers were WDM or not.

EDIT:

Nope, same shit, different day.



[This message has been edited by Himself (edited 10 November 2000).]

[EchoWars]

Let's see Creative sue **-PHILLIPS-** and try to put 'em out of buisness!!! Haha! I need to play with this sound card!! Way cool!

Die Creative Die!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DentyCracker]

The latest Windows 2000 drivers are, and will be hardware accelerated with the impending installation of the official DX8 being downloaded now
edit- The drivers I am talking about are those from the 5.1 installation CD
emu10k1f,sys 5.12.01.3204
Can't talk about Me the pos is uninstalled and will remain so until I'm bored/suffer a memory lapse

[This message has been edited by DentyCracker (edited 10 November 2000).]

[DuRaNgO]

CompUSA has them in stock already, think I'll give it a spin
jim

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and 384k DSL!

[Gurm]

Durango,

Let us know how it is under Win2k - enquiring minds want to know!

- Gurm

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[fds]

Note that at the end of the review it says

There are some things about this card and how it was shipped that should be noted. At the time of this review, Windows 2000 drivers were not available. Philips says that Win2K drivers will be included in the final retail version of the card, but I would have given my eye-teeth for them.

Also on one of the screenshots it says the card is using VXD drivers, so looks like there are no WDM drivers for WinMe here either.

It would have been interesting too to check the AC3 passthrough support. I wouldn't want to be forced to PowerDVD all the time. I wonder whether it works with CinePlayer 2000 and WinDVD as well.