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Creative: Asus EAX Support Lacking

[Mar 25, 2008, 09:18 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Creative Labs sends along a statement refuting claims by Asus that their latest audio cards offer EAX 5 support:

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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Mar 25, 2008, 17:06

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So much misinformation in this thread. Someone who has some facts should shed some light on all these claims especially the situation of vista and direct sound etc. Without reverse engineering, how could the new asus card support eax 3, 4, or 5, since eax 3, 4, and 5 are completely closed and proprietary to creative labs? I gave up on creative labs because of the driver bloat, the questionable call home apps in their driver suite, and the slow fixing of problems in general. I gave up on creative labs after my negative soundblaster live experience. Creative labs dumped supporting older cards just as soon as a new line of cards was introduced, leaving the older cards without issues. This happened with every single generation of sound cards creative released including my sb live. I currently use an m-audio revolution 7.1. Not because I need 7.1 output, but because the signal to noise ratio is superior to onboard sound cards and with quality headphones, I definitely hear the difference.

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