Soldato
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I have had what I can only describe as a weird issue for a while now and I’ve found what is causing it finally.
I have had a Sound blasterX G6 for about 2 years now and realised this is what is causing my pain.
I have always been a Battlefield/Apex fps type of game player; I’ve never been the best but I do reasonably well. I noticed a while back I was suddenly finding online fps games more difficult than previous years and my kills per game and general ability to get through a fight increasingly difficult.
Me reaching my mid 40s I presumed my reaction were getting worse as I age and this was the cause of it all but, I knew something felt off like I was a step behind what I was seeing on the screen to where players actually were.
It felt like lag but the pings and my pc were more than capable for the games I was playing. This year I’ve replaced my PSU as it was getting old and when I did this my G6 died around the same time and was thrown in the bin.
I still had my Sennheiser GSX1000 on the shelf so I plugged it in while I ordered another sound device. Suddenly the guns in games felt like I was firing bullets and not rubber versions of them and enemies started falling more often than they had in a while. Never thought too much of it until my new G6 arrived.
I installed the G6 and all seemed ok for a day or so and then suddenly I was getting killed everywhere again and guns that were fine a few days before were back to feeling meh again.
So it clicked, I uninstalled the G6 and I’m currently using the GSX1000 again and my gaming ability is back to more what I was used to before I bought my G6 again.
So a long story short for what ever reason the G6 and creative software cause me some kind of delay while I’m gaming which I found hard to diagnose as in latencymon it didn’t seem to show up and I’ve not found many reports of this issue, I did find one thread about it on the G6 but not many others.
I can reproduce this on 2 different G6`s (friend has one still – he replaced his now) and wondering if anyone else has this issue without realizing.
So, I’m now unsure what to buy sound card/device wise for my AKG 712 pro`s the GSX1000 is good in some ways but sounds very `tin` like to me and lacks punch and quality to me. The positional sound is ok but that’s about it, plus whenever I shut my pc down with this connected it gives off a loud noise to the speakers as if a static issue or something.
Long post hope it helps someone, hope everyone is keeping well and thanks for getting this far down the post lol.
PS. I have latest version of firmware and software.
Also i tried the G6 in both usb 3 and 2 ports and direct to back of motherboard and usb hub.
I have had a Sound blasterX G6 for about 2 years now and realised this is what is causing my pain.
I have always been a Battlefield/Apex fps type of game player; I’ve never been the best but I do reasonably well. I noticed a while back I was suddenly finding online fps games more difficult than previous years and my kills per game and general ability to get through a fight increasingly difficult.
Me reaching my mid 40s I presumed my reaction were getting worse as I age and this was the cause of it all but, I knew something felt off like I was a step behind what I was seeing on the screen to where players actually were.
It felt like lag but the pings and my pc were more than capable for the games I was playing. This year I’ve replaced my PSU as it was getting old and when I did this my G6 died around the same time and was thrown in the bin.
I still had my Sennheiser GSX1000 on the shelf so I plugged it in while I ordered another sound device. Suddenly the guns in games felt like I was firing bullets and not rubber versions of them and enemies started falling more often than they had in a while. Never thought too much of it until my new G6 arrived.
I installed the G6 and all seemed ok for a day or so and then suddenly I was getting killed everywhere again and guns that were fine a few days before were back to feeling meh again.
So it clicked, I uninstalled the G6 and I’m currently using the GSX1000 again and my gaming ability is back to more what I was used to before I bought my G6 again.
So a long story short for what ever reason the G6 and creative software cause me some kind of delay while I’m gaming which I found hard to diagnose as in latencymon it didn’t seem to show up and I’ve not found many reports of this issue, I did find one thread about it on the G6 but not many others.
I can reproduce this on 2 different G6`s (friend has one still – he replaced his now) and wondering if anyone else has this issue without realizing.
So, I’m now unsure what to buy sound card/device wise for my AKG 712 pro`s the GSX1000 is good in some ways but sounds very `tin` like to me and lacks punch and quality to me. The positional sound is ok but that’s about it, plus whenever I shut my pc down with this connected it gives off a loud noise to the speakers as if a static issue or something.
Long post hope it helps someone, hope everyone is keeping well and thanks for getting this far down the post lol.
PS. I have latest version of firmware and software.
Also i tried the G6 in both usb 3 and 2 ports and direct to back of motherboard and usb hub.