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sound card upgrade
Hi,
I have seen the new X-FI gamers cards claim to improve FPS by offloading dx hardware sound acceleration from the system. Is this true and how much difference can a sound card make to game performance? |
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sound card upgrade
In article , joanne fee
says... Hi, I have seen the new X-FI gamers cards claim to improve FPS by offloading dx hardware sound acceleration from the system. Is this true and how much difference can a sound card make to game performance? Yes it is true, especially when "virtualising 3D", i.e mimicking surround sound with only two speakers. In addition to that, there's massive differences in sound quality, mainly in the upper ranges. No matter how much I've tried, I cannot get onboard sound to sound as clear in the upper ranges as a Creative card. FPS wise though, I doubt you'd notice whilst playing unless you were displaying a realtime FPS counter. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |
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