Quote Originally Posted by Sarg View Post
Thanks for the info & for all that provided assistnce and theuir thoughts as well as tips. I know I'm a bit late here in thuis reply, but I have run in other issues here with this old Rig of mine and not to mention my Monitor, as welol as some personal family issues. But I will try and exchange the Striker Sound card in the next few weeks for the Claro halo or Claro halo XT.

Sarg.
I hope things are going better for ya'.

EAX is completely worthless, especially now days. Games have great positional audio without having to use the proprietary EAX crap.
Asus, Rocketfish, MSI, Microsoft and Auzentech have EAX licenses.

There seems to be a tiny bit of Misinformation. Just as some Hate Creative cards, some folks like them. But clearly they are not for every user. I've had luck with them but they create problems for others. I'd NEVER buy an On-Board sound chipset stuck on a discrete card and called something its not!

EAX = Environmental Audio Effects and has nothing to do with surround sound. This has been explained but some folks have short memories.

EAX doesn't need Alchemy to work in OpenAL=P EAX ads more voices, occludes, obstructs, reverbs, elevation, distance and etc.. effects to the surround sound OpenAL is already doing.

Alchemy is used ONLY for DS3D and NOT much else. Alchemy has NOTHING to do with OpenAL.

Since many of the things EAX does is written into homegrown Sound Engines, EAX as a separate feature isn't as important as it used to be. Creative will make sure it and or OpenAL doesn't completely die!

For gaming, Local Sound Card Hardware Processing isn't about FPS but low latency Game Sounds for no Lip-Sync issues. You pull the trigger on a weapon you want to go BOOM in mil-seconds, not tents of seconds LOL! Stalker CoP has very nice EAX effects.