• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And then three things happened at once

    1. Creative de-facto monopolized the industry often by unethical means (suing Aureal into bankruptcy, etc.), not letting much room for competitors, which in turn lead to diminishing quality on the part of Creative.
    2. Microsoft didn’t put hardware acceleration support into XAudio, which superseeded DirectSound.
    3. Game publishers realized the vast majority of gamers didn’t care about sound quality, so they could spent those resources on making the games look a little bit more realistic.
  • renrenPDX@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My best friend gave me his sound blaster after upgrading to the Pro. Later I upgraded to a Gravis Ultrasound. Offloading sound processing to the sound card (1MB) improved gaming performance significantly.

  • datelmd5sum@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I still use my external soundblaster to connect to my 5.1 amp. I have HDMI to my TV and then toslink to my amp, but it was inconvenient having to have the TV on for listening music.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh yeah, I forgot about Soundblaster. They have that stupid card a Transformer name and none of us ever questioned it.