cocheese256
Gawd
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I currently have a Creative XFi Fatality installed in my Vista 64 system with 5.1 surround sound. I am having issues with this card and quite a few games. I use Alchemy to gain surround sound in some D3D and EAX games. My biggest problem is crashing in some newer games such as UT3. If I disable OpenAL in games, then they will not randomly crash. If it is enabled it may crash 5 minutes into the game or 2 hours in. If I use my onboard audio with OpenAL on the games do not crash, but I can not get 5.1 surround sound in D3D games such as Half Life 2 Series.
Can some one give me a suggestion on a sound card that can provide 5.1 sound for "older" d3d/EAX games without the use of an external program such as alchemy and also provide stable use of OpenAL. I am currently considering one of th Asus cards. I have had real good luck with other products of theirs.
Thanx.
Can some one give me a suggestion on a sound card that can provide 5.1 sound for "older" d3d/EAX games without the use of an external program such as alchemy and also provide stable use of OpenAL. I am currently considering one of th Asus cards. I have had real good luck with other products of theirs.
Thanx.