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Topic: Gaming soundcards in the post-EAX era (Read 2465 times) previous topic - next topic
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Gaming soundcards in the post-EAX era

I moved to Windows Vista earlier this year and, as you know, EAX is dead with Vista because the OS can no longer communicate directly with the hardware. Therefore this is no doubt going to be replaced by OpenAL, something I don't know much about.

Creative's Vista drivers are in a sorry state right now. Despite having had the spec for years they're still beta and still problematic, not that that's all that different from their official releases.

Thing is, in the post-EAX era is Creative still the way for the discerning gamer to go?

Gaming soundcards in the post-EAX era

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Seeing how OpenAL i largely developed by Creative (Link1, Link2). I'd say that that's pretty much a given. It's certainly not impossible that SOMEONE will support it just as good, but hardly better. Creative will definitely put a lot of effort into Vista drivers for the X-Fi series, since it's their current focus sound card line.

+ Creative cards aren't that bad nowadays.