What's the good sound card these days for gamingand music ?

[department76]

It does

someone asked lol.

Ironically Creative is the driver provider.

creative and auzentech have collaborated in writing the drivers, somehow i don't see creative writing drivers for auzentech to handle the DDL that's performed by the prelude's Xilinx CPLD, pretty sure creative just handles things regarding the X-Fi DSP. but yes, i think the initial drivers at the cards release may have been 100% creative, however, they have been much refined since then. saying creative is the driver provider is very misleading.

 

[btarunr]

someone asked lol.



creative and auzentech have collaborated in writing the drivers, somehow i don't see creative writing drivers for auzentech to handle the DDL that's performed by the prelude's Xilinx CPLD, pretty sure creative just handles things regarding the X-Fi DSP. but yes, i think the initial drivers at the cards release may have been 100% creative, however, they have been much refined since then. saying creative is the driver provider is very misleading.

Of course, but Auzen continues to call them "Creative X-Fi drivers" so the mislead comes from Auzen, not me. http://www.auzentech.com/site/products/x-fi_prelude.php#specifications

Rgardless, it's a great card and it's funny how people attach taboos to just anything Creative does...."Oh noes, Creative did that, let's stay away" . It's more about "I hate Creative" than "They make useless stuff"...truth is they don't. For 80 bucks and a bunch of games, the company I should turn to for great sound is Creative, eventually.

 

[imperialreign]

someone asked lol.



creative and auzentech have collaborated in writing the drivers, somehow i don't see creative writing drivers for auzentech to handle the DDL that's performed by the prelude's Xilinx CPLD, pretty sure creative just handles things regarding the X-Fi DSP. but yes, i think the initial drivers at the cards release may have been 100% creative, however, they have been much refined since then. saying creative is the driver provider is very misleading.

actually - Creative does provide Auzen the base drivers for the X-Fi audio ring BUS, as well as for DSP implimentation and the X-Fi driver software (audio console, mode switcher, etc). Auzen expands off of that based upon their hardware configuration/revision. The drivers specifically for the APU, though, is all Creative's . . . and to the best of my knowledge, Auzen has no interaction with the leg of the drivers that allow for access and communication with the APU.

 

[department76]

Rgardless, it's a great card and it's funny how people attach taboos to just anything Creative does...."Oh noes, Creative did that, let's stay away" . It's more about "I hate Creative" than "They make useless stuff"...truth is they don't. For 80 bucks and a bunch of games, the company I should turn to for great sound is Creative, eventually.

agreed. funny auzen beat creative to the punch on the product market creative helped pioneer.

Creative does provide Auzen the base drivers for the X-Fi audio ring BUS, as well as for DSP implimentation and the X-Fi driver software (audio console, mode switcher, etc). Auzen expands off of that based upon their hardware configuration/revision. The drivers specifically for the APU, though, is all Creative's . . . and to the best of my knowledge, Auzen has no interaction with the leg of the drivers that allow for access and communication with the APU.

that's pretty much what i said...

 

[btarunr]

agreed. funny auzen beat creative to the punch on the product market creative helped pioneer.

True, and that's the $150+ audiophile sound-card market. Doesn't get into the niche of the Xtreme Gamer series.

 

[imperialreign]

agreed. funny auzen beat creative to the punch on the product market creative helped pioneer.

true - TBH, I'm really glad Auzen is coming more into the mainstream at this point also - as compared to even a couple of years ago . . . all this competition in the audio card market has been working wonders for everyone involved in that market. When I first heard that Creative was going to license the X-Fi APU to Auzen, I was afraid that they'd be assimilated like EMU was almost a decade ago; only because, it's been 20 years now, and Auzen is the first company to ever have licensed hardware from Creative . . . my initial thoughts were that Auzen was in such a poor market stance that they needed help, and that they had signed away their soul to Creative

Thankfully, though, that's not the case!

that's pretty much what i said...

somewhat . . . re-reading my earlier post even got me a bit confused (sorry, it's 2AM here and I need to get some rest).

I can sum it up like this:

the drivers allowing for direct interaction with the APU and it's BUS architecture, and the software that allows for user interaction with the APU hardware (i.e. audio mode console) - written by Creative

drivers that allow the PCB hardware to support and impliment Creative's information property (EAX, CMSS-3D, etc) - written by both Auzentech and Creative

drivers that interact with the miscellaneous PCB hardware and final output sampling, sourcing and positioning, and any other user software - written by Auzentech