Gibbo - Any update on when Preludes hit retail?

same here mate. i don't game very much at all .im more in to music not sure what to go for myself
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you have to wonder whats going to happen in the market now that MS have dropped eax support from vista. will we see more and more coders going for openAL ?
 
james.miller said:
you have to wonder whats going to happen in the market now that MS have dropped eax support from vista. will we see more and more coders going for openAL ?
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Havent creative released a patch for that though? Alchemy i think it is :)
 
Each game has to be patched individually with that. No developers are going to use Directsound3D now that it has offically been dropped.

Also, I thought OpenAL was a open standard... if so, why have no companies bar Creative included driver support?

Edit: Oh my bad, Xonar has it. :p
 
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is it me or is this the mother of all soundcards?

best of xi-fi range and the best of the X-meridian all rolled into one card?

in not tech litterate on all the audio specs anyone spot anything not so good?
 
Does this 4GB issue affect ALL X-Fi cards or only an unlucky several? I ask because I'm getting another 2GB shortly and want to know if I will suffer this issue with my Xtreme Music.
 
Pretty sure it affects everyone. Maybe Creative will fix it in their next driver (if we're lucky)... as it stands, my onboard Realtek is being used instead until they get their act together.

...Or I buy a Xonar. :p
 
Can I just confirm that the Prelude will be able to encode all sounds (like sound from games) to Dolby Digital/DTS for output through the optical/coax connection? or only sounds that are already in DD like the crap way the current creative cards do it?

If it does then I might seriously consider this card I've been looking for an excuse to leave creative.
 
Yes the card will encode dolby digital and dts on the fly - so you can play games in surround sound over optical - but these features won't be immediately implemented in drivers. Auzentech are currently indicating Q4 2007 for DD Live and Q1 2008 for DTS connect.

I'm not buying it until at least DD live is up and running.
 
Vista 64bit here with 4gb ram. And i have either a vacuum cleaner when i speak on my mic (using XFi xtreme pants here) or i have an apache hovering around my head to the point where it hurts all my gaming friends ears :mad:

can someone confirm the prelude works in vista 64bit with 4gb of ram and no issues with crackling or mic problems. :)

thanks in advance
 
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