Warning : NO DOLBYDIGITAL DEOCDING on new X-Fi Extreme Gamer Fatality Pro
Just bought this soundcard from OcUK, and guess what, unlike the extreme music card on my other rig, the dolby digital and dts are missing. Don't tell me Creative have done a Dell on this card and removed licensing for this except when using their own Creative Mediasource player.
http://forums.creative.com/creative...soundblaster&message.id=81065&query.id=297945
What a crock...you have to buy a dvd player if you want proper 5.1. So using something like Nvidia Pure video decoder with Media centre does not work. Pure video will pick up the dolby digital bit stream but the sound card can do **** all with it. If you tell Purevideo you want to use pc speakers then fine, but as soon as you go fullscreen, then it picks up the dolby digital steam off the dvd again and assumes your sound card or another decoder will take care of it and then of course you get no sound. The Extrem Music does not have this "feature" as it has the inbuilt decoder. This card is a bloody ripoff. They add Xram and then remove the onboard decoder. It now means I have to pay money for PowerDVD or WinDVD. Total pants.
<edit>Correction to above....there is a free verison of PowerDVD you are supposed to be able to download for this card. The download program is on the Creative DVD but doesn't work...great. And even if it did, it means you are now tied to a 3rd party software package and can't use your nvidia purevideo decoder with media player for example. All because Creative decided to be cheap and remove the dts/dolby standalone capability of the card</edit>
Just bought this soundcard from OcUK, and guess what, unlike the extreme music card on my other rig, the dolby digital and dts are missing. Don't tell me Creative have done a Dell on this card and removed licensing for this except when using their own Creative Mediasource player.
http://forums.creative.com/creative...soundblaster&message.id=81065&query.id=297945
What a crock...you have to buy a dvd player if you want proper 5.1. So using something like Nvidia Pure video decoder with Media centre does not work. Pure video will pick up the dolby digital bit stream but the sound card can do **** all with it. If you tell Purevideo you want to use pc speakers then fine, but as soon as you go fullscreen, then it picks up the dolby digital steam off the dvd again and assumes your sound card or another decoder will take care of it and then of course you get no sound. The Extrem Music does not have this "feature" as it has the inbuilt decoder. This card is a bloody ripoff. They add Xram and then remove the onboard decoder. It now means I have to pay money for PowerDVD or WinDVD. Total pants.
<edit>Correction to above....there is a free verison of PowerDVD you are supposed to be able to download for this card. The download program is on the Creative DVD but doesn't work...great. And even if it did, it means you are now tied to a 3rd party software package and can't use your nvidia purevideo decoder with media player for example. All because Creative decided to be cheap and remove the dts/dolby standalone capability of the card</edit>
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