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Topic on Glossary talk:Sound card

Mirh (talkcontribs)

Yes, I know this sounds pretty rude.
Though I'm really pissed off by all theirs contradictions that wasted tons of my time, and I wanted to let off steam

Let's start from the beginning.
They seemed pretty sympathetic towards users initially. were always scummy but not overly so.
In 1999 they announced support for I3DL2 open standard. Furthermore they announced their new EAX version.
If previous bulletins weren't enough to stress this, the support of these specifications for every PCI sound card was further underlined in these FAQ

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Then what... ?

Well, they became the de facto monopolists of the gamer audio market.
Every good intentions vanished.. and the new EAX version just saw the light of day 2 years after. And it was as proprietary and exclusive as possible.
Not to mention that Interactive Audio Special Interest Group got canned

And later things just went worse. The new Audigy series was practically a rebrand of Live! series, but firewire port and improved DACs.
I mean, improved DACs are a quite nice addition.. though the DSP (despite being called 10K2) was still the good old 10K1
To add insult to injury even their marketing department was "messing up"

EDIT: hacked SbLive! drivers found!
EDIT2: new mess! Age of empires 3 is claimed to not even use DS3D... but here it supports EAX and it would even need ALchemy..
EDIT3: Creative's audio processors datasheets are available here
EDIT4: surprise, different revisions of the original live! existed
EDIT5: suprise²: newer is not always better
EDIT6: they are using sens_oal.dll for some cards. What of a irony.
EDIT7: ALchemy is freaking hardcoded and it might even misbehave on newer Core3D (Recon and Z) cards