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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Octavius on May 19, 2003, 03:31:20 PM

Title: New Audigy series beta drivers
Post by: Octavius on May 19, 2003, 03:31:20 PM

Has anyone tried these yet?  I came across them last night and DAMN!  

http://www.tomshardware.fr/download.php

Yes, I know they're beta, but they kick ass.  Massive frame rate improvement in many sound-intensive programs such as IL2, Planetside, BF1942.  I haven't tried any other games yet... but here's the run down:

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Fixes & Features:

Sound Blaster Audigy Specific

Sound Blaster Audigy performance increased by 10%-15% for EAX ADVANCED HD

Number of simultaneous voices has been doubled from 32 to 64

Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy 2 Benefits

Reverb presets setting by game audio engine is now on average 10X faster

EAX Morphing performance enhanced, typically yielding a 2X improvement in frame-rates for morphed sections.

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Title: New Audigy series beta drivers
Post by: capt. apathy on May 19, 2003, 05:58:28 PM

haven't tried them yet.  let me know how it goes.  maybe next week.

Title: New Audigy series beta drivers
Post by: funkedup on May 20, 2003, 01:30:30 PM

Thanks,will try them.  I am a very satisfied Audigy owner.