Creative: Asus Misleading Customers on EAX Drivers
Responding to an announcement by Asus that newly released drivers for its Xonar line of sound cards support EAX, Creative communications VP Phil O'Shaughnessy said that the drivers effectively trick games into outputting EAX-capable sound.
"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," O'Shaughnessy said.
"The new Asus drivers are falsely reporting EAX 5 capabilities in order to get these games to output 3D audio on Asus sound cards. Asus customers are not getting a genuine EAX Advanced HD experience with this driver update," he added.
High-definition sound and environmental effects have become an increasingly important feature for PC gamers, with complaints prompting Creative to release a software fix to remedy the lack of EAX effects in legacy titles on Windows Vista.
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replySo Xonar is just 5.1 WITHOUT the eax effects? Yeah that X-FI purchase is looking much better now thanks. Pay more for less? Fuck that. Creative may have shitty drivers but at least I get 100% functionality.
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Asus is telling the games that support EAX 5, to output EAX 5. Nowheres does it say that the Asus cards are incapable of producing EAX 5.
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What are you talking about? I get 5.1 + EAX in Vista. Thats what I wanted when I was searching for a card, and it turns out Xonar didn't have it. I almost bought one because of the massive problems the X-FI series had caused. Yet I have one and it's working wonders right now.
The only issue I had was due to not uninstalling my audigy correctly. Right now I enjoy better sound than I had back with XP, so I'm happy.
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