Soundstorm: pure marketing bullshit or what?

[Guest]

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I've got to admit the soundstorm sound on my NF7s v2.0 is good (better than my
old Turtle Beach Montego II) when it works. I finally got the latest audio
drivers for 98SE (a big THANK YOU to Nvidia for coming thru on that): 4.31. All
my games work now except Far Cry.

Are most of the EAX driver problems w/Soundstorm due to Creative's stonewalling
on specs?

On paper isn't soundstorm supposed to have BETTER specs than any PCI soundcard
made? I say better because supposedly soundstorm has a much higher bandwidth
than anything on the PCI bus will ever have right? So why is Nvidia ditching
soundstorm?
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

[JJ]

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On 09 May 2004 23:00:04 GMT, wblane@aol.combotizer (Wblane) wrote:

>I've got to admit the soundstorm sound on my NF7s v2.0 is good (better than my
>old Turtle Beach Montego II) when it works. I finally got the latest audio
>drivers for 98SE (a big THANK YOU to Nvidia for coming thru on that): 4.31. All
>my games work now except Far Cry.
>
>Are most of the EAX driver problems w/Soundstorm due to Creative's stonewalling
>on specs?
>
>On paper isn't soundstorm supposed to have BETTER specs than any PCI soundcard
>made? I say better because supposedly soundstorm has a much higher bandwidth
>than anything on the PCI bus will ever have right? So why is Nvidia ditching
>soundstorm?
>-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

It's probably expensive, and I think new sound chips blow it away.

 

[Guest]

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Wblane wrote:
> I've got to admit the soundstorm sound on my NF7s v2.0 is good
> (better than my old Turtle Beach Montego II) when it works. I finally
> got the latest audio drivers for 98SE (a big THANK YOU to Nvidia for
> coming thru on that): 4.31. All my games work now except Far Cry.

I had sound issues too in Far Cry (Unified Driver 3.13). They disappeared
when I went back to my older Sound Blaster Live Value. Well......

 

[Ben]

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Nah, my housemate has huge problems with far cry on his extigy, and my
audigy (pre soundstorm gave out cracks and pops. don't think its nvidia's
fault.


"Per Nielsen" <dazzler53@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ggq4kF2n6amU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Wblane wrote:
> > I've got to admit the soundstorm sound on my NF7s v2.0 is good
> > (better than my old Turtle Beach Montego II) when it works. I finally
> > got the latest audio drivers for 98SE (a big THANK YOU to Nvidia for
> > coming thru on that): 4.31. All my games work now except Far Cry.
>
> I had sound issues too in Far Cry (Unified Driver 3.13). They disappeared
> when I went back to my older Sound Blaster Live Value. Well......
>
>