ASUS XONAR D2X GETS EAX 5.0

Just to let anyone know facts.

The Asus cards do not have EAX in the real sence, its an emulation (sounds as near as it so wont matter).

You can read that from the horses mouth on Techreport (about 1 week ago).

Also Asus have near as bad support as Creative and also dont give a monkey about peeps.
 
helmutcheese said:
Just to let anyone know facts.

The Asus cards do not have EAX in the real sence, its an emulation (sounds as near as it so wont matter).

You can read that from the horses mouth on Techreport (about 1 week ago).

Also Asus have near as bad support as Creative and also dont give a monkey about peeps.
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still it has to be better than creative
 
helmutcheese said:
Also Asus have near as bad support as Creative and also dont give a monkey about peeps.
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The part 'near as' is the big factor though, nobody is able to not support products like creative can, no matter how hard they don't try. :D

Sound cards are quite hard to code for but you have to give it to asus for their xonar being worked on more than creative do to their cards. :)
 
Ok i am now confused! I always thought that the D2 and D2X were the same thing and the only difference was that one used a PCI interface and the other a PCI-E interface.
Is the new driver available with the EAX5 support for the PCI version aswell (Xonar D2) or is it only a D2X driver only?
I have read a review compairing the Asus Xonar D2(using the drivers available at release) and D2X using the latest version of the drivers and it seemed that the D2X performed better at the tests. Anyone cares to shed some light into this?
Is the hardware of the 2 models exactly identical?
 
The Asus Xonar cards have had good reviews and look nice as well :), but i am a bit confused about the DS3D GX :confused:

Out of the 2 cards this one mentions the DS3D GX and is a lot more expensive http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-001-AS

The Xonar D2 PCI card doesnt mention it in the product description but on the asus product page http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
its drivers update you to DS3D GX 2.0 :confused:

So what do you get for a extra £24 with the pcie version :)
 
lay-z-boy said:
The part 'near as' is the big factor though, nobody is able to not support products like creative can, no matter how hard they don't try. :D

Sound cards are quite hard to code for but you have to give it to asus for their xonar being worked on more than creative do to their cards. :)
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I know the score with Asus, used them since 2001, all ok if nothing goes wrong, if it does your in for a long RMA process if you even get a reply.

And all I want is for peeps to not buy the Asus thinking it has EAX 5.0 or otherwise because it is not, again its an emulation.

If your happy with that cool, but Asus should really be stating this on the box, not false claims.
 
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UltraDad said:
So what do you get for a extra £24 with the pcie version :)
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Monkeynut said:
Isn't it the same, but the PCI-E version has a bridge chip?
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Yes the PCI-E version uses a bridge chip and requires a floppy-drive power connector (because PCI-Express supplies different power than PCI and Asus used the same design as the PCI version so it isn't a native PCI-Express card).

You are paying the extra £24 for PCI-E which may be worth it if you think you may be holding onto it until motherboards loose PCI slots (I did have my Audigy card for 5 years).
 
helmutcheese said:
I know the score with Asus, used them since 2001, all ok if nothing goes wrong, if it does your in for a long RMA process if you even get a reply.

And all I want is for peeps to not buy the Asus thinking it has EAX 5.0 or otherwise because it is not, again its an emulation.

If your happy with that cool, but Asus should really be stating this on the box, not false claims.
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being compatible with eax5 and producing something that is 90% comparable,at a guess, is better than nothing. or, in other words, better than the eax2 it would have otherwise. all asus state is that its eax5.0 compatible, which is exactly with DSD GX aims to do. emulation or otherwise, if it works it works.
 
james.miller said:
you arent though. your saying it doesnt have eax5.0 - it does, albeit emulated effects.
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I aint, ASUS admit it, is artifical Diamonds the same as real Diamonds ?. NO :)

The FACT remains the Asus does not do REAL EAX anything never mind 5.0, this may not matter 1 bit soundwise but its still something that may lead peeps to buy on the strength of.
 
Well they do not have 5.0, or even 4.0 or even 3.0.

This is 2008, who wants EAX 2.0, I think I had that back in 2001.

Did you even read the Techreport link ?.

I have had 1st hand lack of support from both Asus and Creative, so I laugh at the hate Creative love Asus threads now appearing, they are both bad when it comes to keeping customers happy.

The Asus card could sound good, even better than a X-FI inc the artifical emulated EAX, but its still a FACT its not a EAX 5.0 card so anyone buying it thinking it is having the wool pulled over their eyes.
 
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All the OpenAL games that use EAX work 100% in vista such as Bioshock (Bioshock uses EAX 5.0), Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Brian Lara's International Cricket 2007 , Cold War, Colin McRae Rally DiRT, Doom3, El Matador, Gears of War, Mage Knight Apocalypse, Prey, Quake 4, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Star Wars Republic Commando, The Regiment, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, UFO Afterlight, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 3 and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

It is all of the older games that use DirectSound3D Creative and Asus have problems with:o

Creative try to get EAX working in Vista for DirectSound3D games by using software called ALchemy that does not realy work but hey they tryed:(

I hope this helped the ones that are :confused: by this:)
 
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