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[ERP]

Thank MS for that, not Creative. Even though I`m not sure that it was a bad move by MS.

My understanding is that it was a sideeffect of another decision that was made.

 

[RobertR1]

I don't know what Creative have been doing with Audigy, however I've been running the Beta X-Fi Vista x64 drivers with no issues so far.

From reading on their board, it seems that the Audigy 2/4 series will likely get left behind.

I'll likely use the onboard sound on my next mother board since I don't game much on the PC anymore, the onboard sound is getting a lot better and my headphones won't care too much either way.

 

[Albuquerque]

eh, why not. you don't see MPEG 1 or JPEG decoder cards around, right. (yay I saw a JPEG ISA card in a old magazine, with VGA pass-through cable I think!). CPU are fast enough to process HD video in real time, so why not a few channel of measly sound.

Well, my point was not that "basic" sound can certainly be performed by the CPU, but why do we still not have the ability to hardware-offload such a task? You may not find individual MPEG1 or JPEG decoder cards, but you DO find those same hardware offload functions in a video card, do you not?

(Yes, you do)

CPU is certainly fast enough for a few channels of measley sound. Howabout 50 channels of 24-bit 192khz sound in a next-gen butt-kick-fest game?