Creative: Asus EAX Support Lacking - Blue's News Comments

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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Re: No subject
Mar 25, 2008, 15:58

Prez

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Re: No subject Mar 25, 2008, 15:58

Mar 25, 2008, 15:58

Prez

I use my X-Fi for gaming and music creation, and it does a wonderful job with both. I don't have any complaints. In fact, I've never had a single problem with any Creative card, and I've been using them since my first SB Live Value over a decade ago.

Considering all of the problems documented here, I guess I should consider myself lucky!

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