Hi
I had a moment of madness at the start of the year and purchased a new set of Sennheiser G4ME headphones (which are superb) and also thought i'd throw in the top dog STX II to pair it up with
The problem is however, i did very little research on the sound card (very unlike me, it was an impulse purchase remember!), and now realise that literally all i use the PC for is gaming, so it was a dumb purchase really.
I don't listen to music on here, don't watch films, don't have any stereo equipment setup to it etc, literally just the Sennheiser headphones.
I'm not even using all the Dolby features. I've played around with it loads and read everywhere Dolby Headphone is brilliant for FPS gaming and positional audio, but under my tests i just can't see why, it sounds too echoey for my liking, and doesn't (to me) improve positional audio or accentuate better what i can hear or am supposed to hear.
So i literally have it set to 8Ch audio, 192kz, which i'm aware a £30 Xonar DG could do.....
I was drawn in by all the Opamps, high quality caps this, high quality chipset that etc, and to be fair the sound is crystal clear, but it's wasted on me for what i'm using it for.
Therefore could somebody please spec me a downgrade, for purely gaming? (FPS games), because as much as this is a truly brilliant soundcard, i am just not using it to its potential!
Either that or could somebody please point me to where i am going wrong and how i can get the most out of this for FPS games
I had a moment of madness at the start of the year and purchased a new set of Sennheiser G4ME headphones (which are superb) and also thought i'd throw in the top dog STX II to pair it up with
The problem is however, i did very little research on the sound card (very unlike me, it was an impulse purchase remember!), and now realise that literally all i use the PC for is gaming, so it was a dumb purchase really.
I don't listen to music on here, don't watch films, don't have any stereo equipment setup to it etc, literally just the Sennheiser headphones.
I'm not even using all the Dolby features. I've played around with it loads and read everywhere Dolby Headphone is brilliant for FPS gaming and positional audio, but under my tests i just can't see why, it sounds too echoey for my liking, and doesn't (to me) improve positional audio or accentuate better what i can hear or am supposed to hear.
So i literally have it set to 8Ch audio, 192kz, which i'm aware a £30 Xonar DG could do.....
I was drawn in by all the Opamps, high quality caps this, high quality chipset that etc, and to be fair the sound is crystal clear, but it's wasted on me for what i'm using it for.
Therefore could somebody please spec me a downgrade, for purely gaming? (FPS games), because as much as this is a truly brilliant soundcard, i am just not using it to its potential!
Either that or could somebody please point me to where i am going wrong and how i can get the most out of this for FPS games