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Partol

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Xonar DG may not be compatible with EAX 4.0

 

http://vip.asus.com/...111007230803148

 

Doom 3 ROE uses EAX 4.0 protocols and is not "compatible" with your soundcard. EAX 3.0/4.0 are still under exclusive license by Creative and cannot be emulated. With that said, some games that use EAX 3.0 will automatically bump down to EAX 2.0 when a Xonar trys to emulate. I believe CoD 2 is an example. An important thing to keep in mind is, it is emulation and thus is not perfect. If EAX compatibility is a feature you're that concerned about, I suggest returning your Xonar and investing in a genuine Creative solution.

 

 

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/12818-sound-cards/page__view__findpost__p__260012

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Glyph Seeker

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Yeah I have the Xonar DS and I can't do it either. =-<

 

Sorry.

"No proposition Euclid wrote,

No formulae the text-books know,

Will turn the bullet from your coat,

Or ward the tulwar's downward blow

Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—

The odds are on the cheaper man."

 

From 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' by Rudyard Kipling

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Enabling EAX shouldn't be a requirement to get surround sound working. It's always been my understanding that the phrase surround sound is in reference to a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker setup. Are we all on the same page here or are some of us mistaking EAX (environmental sound effects like echo, reverb, and occlusion) with surround sound?

 

I've got a Xonar card myself and although I don't currently have the required number of speakers to test surround sound I'm nearly sure it would work. I say this because there was a time where I was using a 5.1 setup with a different non-Creative card and all I needed to do to get surround sound working was ensure the speaker configuration in Windows was setup properly and you assign the proper value to the CVar s_numberofspeakers within Doom 3.

 

As for EAX if the game supports EAX 2.0 and below, which Doom 3 does not (it uses EAX 4.0 as quoted above), the Xonar can emulate the effects in software. This isn't something you're going to get to use very often. I think the most modern game where I was able to use it was Halo PC and i disabled it because I thought the effects made the game sound like crap.

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Glyph Seeker

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Iswnt the Xonar based on the XFichip, is so then shouldnt Alchemey work..? have either of you tried to install it etc..?

 

No - I ah... Sorry that's gone way over my head. :-X

 

When I google it it seems like Creative specific software...

"No proposition Euclid wrote,

No formulae the text-books know,

Will turn the bullet from your coat,

Or ward the tulwar's downward blow

Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—

The odds are on the cheaper man."

 

From 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' by Rudyard Kipling

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