sjchmura

No. The audigy cannot do this. Only the NFORCE motherboard can "encode" directsound 3d into 5.1 Dolby Digital. I think Dolby charges $25/motherboard - that would prohibit a $70 soundcard from having that license.

I have been trying to find a site that has benchmarked say the newest 28xx series build with win2k for Q3 and D3D games. Also to demonstrate the performace the the audio systems. Has any site done this?? I keep reading that "XP is so much faster". But is this really true? One of my best friends is very close to MS due to his position and they have confirmed the codebase is virtually identicle. Has MS made specific improvements to the HAL for XP to allow better gameplay?? Also in this context I have always been impressed by 2K performace with games compared to win98. My systems have always benchmarked as well or better with OGL. Howeer, I agree, Win2k D3D performace has suffered at times.

How is SBLIVE support in XP? Does Direct3D work well? EAX??

Does it work with the new XP?

PIII-800 Win2k Pro Vortex2 latest beta drivers from vortexofsound DirectX8 (DX7 made no difference) All Win2k Patches. Some games get that sound stuttering. In Battlezone 2 the voices play fine and tehn - suddenly - stop. If I pause the game and resume ALL THE PAST Not played voices just come out in a row. It is almost like they are getting buffered somewhere and not played I ahve tried all the audio acceleration stuff to no avail Any suggestions?

Has anyone gotten QUAD speaker to work with the latest beta WDM drivers??? Headphones and 2 speaker work fine. When I select QUAD speakers the "test" button greys out. ANy help