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Creative Labs: Asus is Misleading Users
Posted by Regeneration on March 26th, 2008, 08:59 AM

With respect for you and your readers, we wish to share this important information. With its recent driver updates, Asus is misleading its customers by suggesting that its sound cards now support EAX 5. Asus sound cards do not support EAX 5, nor do they support EAX 3 or EAX 4. There are a small number of PC game titles that specifically query the audio device on the system to see if EAX 5 is available before they will attempt to render more than 64 3D simultaneous audio voices. The new Asus drivers are falsely reporting EAX 5 capabilities in order to get these games to ouptut 3D audio on Asus sound cards. Asus customers are not getting a genuine EAX Advanced HD experience with this driver update. Furthermore, the several hundred games that support EAX 3 or EAX 4 for delivering in-game effects will not provide those effects from Asus sound cards.

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so what? Asus are doing in software what Creative does on its shoddy hardware, its nothing new.
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Asus customers are not getting a genuine EAX Advanced HD experience
Great, so no crackling eh ?
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Well it seems the cant even spell...unless ouptut is a new word i dont know about, anyways, thats a little catty
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Asus are dumbasses too though. They said having EAX1-2 support wins over having EAX1-5 support on some of their marketing slides for the Xonar D2.
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EAX is just some lame effect, I can easily live without it. Most of the latest games can run 5.1 without EAX.
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depends on the age, many new games use OpenAL, rather then EAX, but many older titles only had 5.1 via EAX, ... StarLancer for instance, either used Aureal3D, or EAX, unlike newer titles, 5.1 weren't enableable otherwise....

im glad i installed an OpenAL output mode into Unreal Tournament,.. the positional audio actually works.
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