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Anyone using a SB XFI for a soundcard in their setup? Any scp?
XF-I for soundcard
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Same here. Several months of use and it plays without problems.
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I've been using an X-Fi Elite Pro on an nForce4 SLI motherboard for many months now, and I never got the infamous case of snap, crackle and pop. These characteristics make for one hell of a breakfast cereal though.![]()
Same here. Several months of use and it plays without problems.
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I have the Extreme Music version and it has been awesome since day 1. Never any issues. Worth every penny.
I really don't remember much about the CDs included with the X-Fi, but it was really simple to just install what you want. You can simply just install the core drivers and the "Creative Console Launcher."
The launcher lets you change between the three listening modes. It also includes a fairly comprehensive speaker calibration and bass management setup. Among the usual volume adjustments, there is a neat option to adjust the volume of EAX effects, so that these effects can be accentuated or attenuated (even muted) to a degree that you like.
I really don't remember much about the CDs included with the X-Fi, but it was really simple to just install what you want. You can simply just install the core drivers and the "Creative Console Launcher."
The launcher lets you change between the three listening modes. It also includes a fairly comprehensive speaker calibration and bass management setup. Among the usual volume adjustments, there is a neat option to adjust the volume of EAX effects, so that these effects can be accentuated or attenuated (even muted) to a degree that you like.
I have my X-Fi connected to a Pioneer Elite VSX-84TXSi via SPDIF and 7.1 analog. I use SPDIF for DD, DTS, and WMA9 Pro bitstreams, and analog for everything else (e.g., games).
The X-Fi handles the decoding of legacy codecs really well, but my receiver has more processing and room correction options.
I have my X-Fi connected to a Pioneer Elite VSX-84TXSi via SPDIF and 7.1 analog. I use SPDIF for DD, DTS, and WMA9 Pro bitstreams, and analog for everything else (e.g., games).
The X-Fi handles the decoding of legacy codecs really well, but my receiver has more processing and room correction options.
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sound in games on computers isn't quite like the console world. Like msmith described as having it hooked up via 7.1 analog out and digital, doing surround sound in games via digital doesn't happen much (with only limited exceptions like the nforce 2 soundstorm motherboards and some newer non-creative sound cards) as it requires something to encode it into a digital stream (dolby digital/dts) so for the most part, getting 5.1/7.1 sound in games can only be done though analog outputs..as far as support in games goes, as long as the game supports some kind of 3d sound format (openal, directsound 3d for example) the game itself shouldn't care how many speakers you have hooked up since the sound card will render things accordingly
sound in games on computers isn't quite like the console world. Like msmith described as having it hooked up via 7.1 analog out and digital, doing surround sound in games via digital doesn't happen much (with only limited exceptions like the nforce 2 soundstorm motherboards and some newer non-creative sound cards) as it requires something to encode it into a digital stream (dolby digital/dts) so for the most part, getting 5.1/7.1 sound in games can only be done though analog outputs..as far as support in games goes, as long as the game supports some kind of 3d sound format (openal, directsound 3d for example) the game itself shouldn't care how many speakers you have hooked up since the sound card will render things accordingly
I use the xfi elite pro with the gigaworks s750 7.1 surround speakers and the sound for games movies music and home recording studio is just amazing.However I havn't upgraded to vista yet and by the looks of thing I don't think Ill ever be able to get full functionality with this card in vista.Creative isn't interested in giving us anything more than basic beta drivers and apperantly has no plans to take vista support for these cards any further.I realy hope they get their heads out of their arses but as it stands realtec onboard audio will currently outpreform creative cards in vista.
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