yakkob 0 Posted March 12, 2001 Anyone tried one of these yet? I am thinking of getting one, as I have just found out that creative (after deciding not to support their live and all the probs with w2k and smp systems) have decided to release LW5 with their 5.1 cards. Which means basically, if you want support, buy their new card. Which SUCKS if you ask me. So, I won't be buying creative again. The new hercules card looks the dogs nads ,and has had very favourable reviews on the firingsquad site etc. JUst wondered if any of youse lot had tried one. Yak -- Share this post Link to post
Frank_Black 0 Posted March 12, 2001 I have an XP game theatre in my win2k system. Everything seems great so far, there are some problems with the first set of drivers, hopefully that will be fixed soon, it has to do with speaker selection screens with the driver program, they don't always output correctly at the right times. Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted March 13, 2001 Well, I dont exactly have a Hercules card, I do have a Guillemot card (who own Hercules). The Maxi Sound Fortissimo, if you can find it is cheap, works great, and has no problems with Win2k. You dont even need drivers for it, although you can download them. The only bad thing I noticed was if you use a splitter cable so you can have outputs to two things, the sound only plays on one side of the output really loud. But if your using headphones, you cant tell. And, unlike Creative cards, it will share an IRQ with other devices. If you can still find one, Id recommend getting that. I got mine at regular price for $50. Not bad for something with S/PDIF, rear speaker output, A3d, and EAX. Makes me glad I didnt get a creative card. BTW, Guillemot makes a $30 Maxi Sound Muse card, but I dont know how good it is. Looks just like the Fortissimo w/o S/PDIF. Unless you really want that remote control, the Game Theater looks really good. Share this post Link to post
