• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory

Uncle Petey said:
I just listened to that and I didn't think it was that great. Nice stereo effects/panning and maybe a bit of behind the head action, but nothing in front that I could notice.
Click to expand...

It doesn't work so well for front positioning - though your brain fills some of it in when your actually playing a game and can see stuff in front of you thats emitting the sound.
 
AMD's definitely on to something with the audio, despite all the criticism about it not being graphics. Immersion is a massive thing now that games are getting very realistic and people have big displays/multi-monitors etc.
 
FoxEye said:
They had the money to kill their only competition with lawyers. They didn't have a case, but they knew that they didn't need one. They could bankrupt Aureal with legal costs regardless. Very calculated move, and also shows how crap the legal system is. The winner is the one with the most lawyers, not the one who is in the right.

Also, when they acquired Aureal's patents and tech, they buried them. Leaving us with the inferior EAX or nothing. And later versions of EAX only ran on Creative hardware.

Sure you can understand why they did it... doesn't mean we have to agree with it. It was a crap thing to do, and a lot of people hate Creative for it.
Click to expand...

One reason I dont buy creative hardware.
asus ;)

Nightglow said:
T

Over at Tweak Town,Dirt 3 spanned across three 4K monitors via the R9 290X.

Read more at http://www.tweaktown.com/news/33154...ia-the-r9-290x/index.html#qC24sD6ysvwWtRCF.99
Click to expand...

ouchi, so spanking good.

teppic said:
AMD's definitely on to something with the audio, despite all the criticism about it not being graphics. Immersion is a massive thing now that games are getting very realistic and people have big displays/multi-monitors etc.
Click to expand...

audio adds a ton of things, check any movie or tv show.
the 3d positioning seems to be awesome down the road.
 
Boomstick777 said:
So I listened to that and sure enough, impressive sound effects, but here's the thing if I can listen to it with my current setup and it sounds pretty damn good, why would I need any additional hardware?
Click to expand...

That's just an audio track. With Truesound, it's all done dynamically as part of the game, with lower CPU usage, and many more sounds all accurately positioned in 3D space.
 
FoxEye said:
They had the money to kill their only competition with lawyers. They didn't have a case, but they knew that they didn't need one. They could bankrupt Aureal with legal costs regardless. Very calculated move, and also shows how crap the legal system is. The winner is the one with the most lawyers, not the one who is in the right.

Also, when they acquired Aureal's patents and tech, they buried them. Leaving us with the inferior EAX or nothing. And later versions of EAX only ran on Creative hardware.

Sure you can understand why they did it... doesn't mean we have to agree with it. It was a crap thing to do, and a lot of people hate Creative for it.
Click to expand...

Never bought a Creative product since and never will.
 
Last edited:
What put me off Creative:

1. Crappy drivers that would hang onto the PCI bus too long and cause things to crash.
2. Refusing to put new drivers on their websites, and forcing you to pay for a disc.
3. Killing off Aureal, and then burying the tech.
4. The ten megs of setting crap they would put into the registry (back when ten megs were a lot under Windows).
5. The earbuds they make that are just cheap rip-offs of Senhauser.

I LOLed when MS killed hardware sound off in DirectX, and sure enough, Creative have been continuing into insignificance.
 
Steampunk said:
That's just an audio track. With Truesound, it's all done dynamically as part of the game, with lower CPU usage, and many more sounds all accurately positioned in 3D space.
Click to expand...

Ah ok that makes sense.

Another thing I was wondering is this, I use a 1440P monitor which has to use Dual Link DVI, as the audio from the 290X would be passed through HDMI, does this mean I wouldn't get the audio anyway?
 
LtMatt said:
Good spot Greg.

Its funny when a few days back we have Ryan saying on oc.net forums that his 'source' in the AMD driver team said the fix may not be coming for months and that was his reason for his part in the 'AMD Has Issues' marketing campaign and posting it just before the Hawaii event. We've been holding onto this data for months, honest. :D


Ug73uav.jpg


Hwq7uZM.jpg.png
Click to expand...

Ryan may have to eat his words 'yet again' but he seems to have got much more 'involved' since this whole thing blew up OC.net, which for all the ripping chunks out of eachother i though ended quite constructively, if you saw the last few questions i put to him?

Sometimes a good argument can do a lot of good for all sides.
 
Hades said:
It sounded ok but nothing more than Aureal A3D back in the late 90's.
Click to expand...

Aureal was 20 years ahead of its time - towards the end they were working on proper distance and geometry/material interactions that made EAX look like the work of amateurs. I for one wouldn't be sorry to see it revisited.
 
I'm confused about the placement of the 7950's refresh the 270x. Its price looks promising but why the cut in vram? All the specs been thrown about for BF4 (AMD's big tie-in) an increase for the top card but a decrease for a card that many may have looked at CF. It will need to be sub £150 to warrant its purchase over a 3GB 7950.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom