Do pc games have real time encoding to DD 5.1 sound?

Azagoth · 30 Dec 2008 at 20:04

His book? I'm still waiting for him to post the benchmarks, and/or screenshots, of him running Crysis at High settings on his £450 budget PC like he claimed.

dvdbunny said:
it is trust me, i am currently running it on a dual core with 1gb ddr1 ram, 512MB 8800GT, in high detail, at 1600x1050 with 8xaf and 4xFSAA and i am getting like 50 frames per second without the FSAA and AF it's way above 60 frames per second. I plan on getting more Ram so i can run it in ultra high detail. my gaming pc costs under £500 new excluding monitor and included vat and delivery. this is pretty top end on a low budget.

Strife212 · 30 Dec 2008 at 20:06

The answer was in the first post

james.miller · 30 Dec 2008 at 20:28

Strife212 said:
The answer was in the first post

which is not the best answer, no offense to the poster in question (you)

dvdbunny · 31 Dec 2008 at 16:30

james.miller said:
what speakers?

if your speakers do have analgoeu 5.1 inputs on them, then you can use a 5.1 soundcard with analogue outputs. you do not need DD/DTS encoding.

Many thanks for your replies especially this one

But my surround sound system is about 12 years old and it still blows me away with it's sound quality. In dolby digital movies it's incredible. I have already tried playing PC games through the optical connection that I use when watchinf DD 5.1 DVD movies. But the sound is really awful which is why I want a dolby digital live sound card. But the problem is as the receiver is so old I don't think it can playback all the latest PC surround sound gaming formats. My receiver only supports stereo, 2 channel PCM, and DD 5.1.