Creative Releases ALchemy For Vista Users
by Maarten Goldstein, Jan 22, 2007 2:23pm PSTThe people at Creative send along word that a beta version of the Creative ALchemy software is now available for Sound Blaster X-Fi owners. Microsoft's new Vista OS removes the hardware audio abstraction layer, resulting in issues with some EAX and DirectSound3D games ("usually resulting in stereo output without any effects"). ALchemy takes DS3D and EAX calls and translates them into OpenAL calls.
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And are those X-Fi cards really better than the older SoundBlaster Audigy cards, or all those new EAX functions really just bloatware which screw up audio in games more than they improve them? (Back in the days EAX in Half-Life made everything sound really artificially echoy, for example).
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I.e, do I need to get it?
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