So what sound cards are out there, that are 100% OpenAL compliant, outside the creative labs cards. I've seen some, but they seem to use an EAX emulator to do OpenAL, so it's not really true OpenAL, and with more and more games coming out and XP users are getting jack from Creative, it's time to move on.

Dam good question. I can't run Crysis or Half life2 with my x-fi or Audigy 2 no more, new drivers are a joke.

Time for a new force to bring something to the card sound playing field and kick creative out of the game for good.

except without creative, how do you think openal development will fare?

creative have alot of resouces and experience to pool into it as lead dev's. they also have alot of contacts with developers of games which means they can get near complete implementation in today's games.

Who else has those properties.