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Onboard Audio Enhancers?

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TerranUp16

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I got an X-Fi XtremeGamer a little bit back and have had problems with it ever since- the card itself, apparently, is fine, but it just doesn't play well w/my Asus A8N-SLI nForce 4 mobo. Unwilling to get a new mobo and need to replace my RAM and CPU as well atm, I am planning to just tough it out and use my onboard audio for a bit (waiting for either 9800GX2 prices to drop from $600 to $400- providing the card is what it's supposed to be, or for the next generation of gpu's; just something that warrants upgrading from an 8800GTS SSC for a reasonable price). A friend suggested that I use the SRS Audio Sandbox, but that refuses to install (probably because I'm running Vista x64). Are there any other, similar programs which might be more Vista (or more 64-bit) friendly?
 
Don't bother with software 'sound enhancers', they're all pretty much snake oil. They may add a little presence or reverb, but generally that's it.
 
I have to disagree that audio enhancers are phony. I use a fantastic program called OSS3D that's unfortunately for macs and the Windows version is somewhat defunct (last update I believe was in 06). For music these programs can be great, although my main interest is in EQ. For games, I wouldn't think they are terribly useful. Some audio drivers include software that does similar things. I have a realtek onboard audio and their software has built in 'environments' (reverb) and EQ (in my desktop). I don't use any audio modification stuff on my desktop which is more or less exclusively for games.
 
I read somewhere that if you have windows Vista and Direct X 10 installed that the new API sends the audio to your CPU to be processed instead of the sound card...the excuse is that newer CPU's can handle the workload and reduces lag from added circuitry of a soundcard. They did mention you would have to get a 3rd party software that overrides the DX10 API but I can't remember what it was off the top of my head...hope the info is accurate and helpful.
 
If that's true it would probably be preferable, actually. Even when I used my Audigy 2 Value I was still running modern games with sound set to High, so I'm pretty sure my cpu was handling at least some of that already, and the Opteron has proven quite capable of handling cpu-intensive games very well so far, despite the fact that I intend to OC it, xD
 
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