Recommend this + SRS Audio Sandbox
Makes music sound WAY better even on these chepo Sweex 5.1 system
+ can I install this WITH the ATI HDMI Driver? as I didnt bite the bullet as I was worried it wouldnt work?
Recommend this + SRS Audio Sandbox
Makes music sound WAY better even on these chepo Sweex 5.1 system
+ can I install this WITH the ATI HDMI Driver? as I didnt bite the bullet as I was worried it wouldnt work?
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The HDMI driver installed fine for me, so no reason to think it wont for you
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"Works" Will test tomorow on the Tele
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Can I ask how you started modding drivers etc... as i'm very much interested in getting into it myself
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Only works with EAX 4.0.
EAX 5 has always been an EMU20Kx-only feature, since using this through software alone would probably cripple most mid-end CPUs.
Beware with emulating EAX 4.0 on non-Creative hardware though. It brings many ~2Ghz dualies to their knees.
Theres no emulation taking place AFAIK, which means the Realtek chip can do it AFAIK all the way up to EAX 4.0 anyway its all software doing the job, EAX 5 is hardware with a X-Fi.
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Vote with your feet, buy a Xonar
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Using them right now on vista 64. Noticeable difference. Not the same as the real thing tho...i miss my x-fi. Have to get another one now.
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Buy a Xonar ZERO problems with drivers nomatter the OS your using
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+ 1 on Xonar,
X-Fi sucks took mine out about a month ago had it for about 3 days and literally gave it away
silly thing
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Giving it away is too good for a X-Fi... should of smashed it into a million bits with a sledgehammer, then blowtorched it, then attached a post-it note to it reading "I sincerely hope the company go the way of this soundcard" and posted it to crapative
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Downloading now to use on Vista x64
so I only need:
X-Fi MB Software 138MB (recompressed for much smaller DL size)
and
Realtek Vista X-Fi mod driver R2.17 15MB
right?
Many many thanks Ket
Don't use the X-Fi software, doesn't work on Vista. Driver does tho.
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EMU20K1 and EMU20K2 (X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium except for XtremeAudio, notebook and USB versions): Accelerates all EAX versions through hardware.
EMU10K2 (Audigy 1 and 2, except for SE, Value, LS and notebook/USB versions): Accelerates EAX 4.0 and inferior through hardware.
EMU10K1 (Live! except for "24 bit" version) and nVidia Soundstorm: Accelerates EAX 1.0 and 2.0 through hardware.
Everything else does any EAX version through the CPU. There's no DSP functionality in realtek's codecs or in (your beloved) Xonar's rebranded CMI8788 from C-Media, because they're just simple codecs.
Having the CPU to emulate EAX 4.0 is heavy. I know this because I'm using a X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB card (non-eax capable hardware), and turning on EAX 4.0 or emulating OpenAL hardware will give me better surround sound, but it will also lower my framerate in newer games, because my C2D T7200 2.0Ghz gets overloaded.
With a quad-core or a 3+Ghz dual-core I don't think this would happen, though.
Blatant advertising and any anti-company cheap trolling is forbidden in this forum. Reported.
Last edited by ToTTenTranz; 03-10-2009 at 07:46 AM.
Just tried your drivers and to be honest i found them to have lower quality than the original realtek drivers.
Just went back to latest realtek ones as i like the quality and i don't expect wonders from an onboard sound card
thank you though for your effort
Here are some results a TPU user done with RMAA(LINK). Quality is CERTAINLY better. First SS are with 2.17 vanilla, 2nd SS are with 2.17 "X-Fi".
Last edited by Ket; 03-10-2009 at 08:33 AM.
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Your sounding very much like a troll. I'm recommending people buy a Xonar over a X-Fi for clear reasons - its a better card. Next you will be saying other members are "blatantly advertising" and being "anti-company" in the audio section where people recommend the Xonar, Auzentech prelude, X-Plosion, etc, over a X-Fi You will also notice I have recommended the Xonar when people have bought soundcards up, otherwise keeping to the point of this thread (and even the sidenotes are still relative). Idiot. For the sake of NOT taking this thread off topic I'll refrain from picking the rest of your post apart.
ED - Heres a review of the Xonar DX @ The Tech Report. Now, back to the topic in hand, peoples experiences with the driver.
Last edited by Ket; 03-10-2009 at 08:42 AM.
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I'm using a T7200 because it's the CPU that came with my laptop. And since it's a Merom, there's nothing really worth upgrading to
There's no difference at all between emulated and hardware in the way it sounds.
Just like comparing the difference in image quality between a 9500GT and a 9800GTX+... if you apply the same settings, they will render the exact same pixels in each frame. Performance, on the other hand, differs greatly.
I have no doubt a tri/quad-core or even a faster dual-core could handle EAX 4.0 with no problems (my T7200 only "complains" with last-gen games). But I'd advise the low-end CPU users to refrain from using this software, unless they upgrade the CPU or get an actual X-Fi.
Right I'll end it....
If you have a lower specced computer i.e maybe a laptop or a lower-end dual/single core processor it might give you a bit of a performance hit
And People are entitled to their opinions on what hardware they like etc....
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//James
OK. try this: Change your power settings to throttle the CPU to 100%, then come back and say software emulation of sound makes your games lag. You do realize your cpu is being dynamically adjusted, even more aggressively then a desktop one. For battery life.
BTW, if you're using Vista you're getting software emulation anyways.
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