First post, by Silent Loon
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Hi!
Not long ago I bought an old Diamond Monstersound II 300MX from ebay. I wanted to play those old(er) games that support a3d, now having the soundcard and the cpu-power to take advantage of the possibilities of the vortex2 chip.
I started with Jedi Knight on my retro PC with win98 - no problems, of course.
Than I shifted the card to my newer PC (Asrock DualSata 2 / Athlon 64 3200 / NVidia 7600 GS PCIe / Soundblaster Audigy 2 / 1024 MB Ram / Windows XP),
to try those games my retro machine seems to be to slow to.
There where no installation problems, the card is easily recognized by windows xp, only the second line out of the monstersound is not usable.
Trying games with a3d support, however, I got confusing results:
Unreal (w. patch 226) doesn't start (when audio-acceleration is enabled)
B-17 II - The Mighty 8TH starts, but says there are no Aureal drivers in the system.
I also installed the Aureal drivers I think to be the last ones released (VER 3.12) but did not overwrite the file where the system says the windows version is newer. This doesn't help either. I thought that XP simply doesn't support a3d, but when I tried the "bees-demo" of Aureal the 3d-effect was clearly there, and even more, it could be heard with both cards - the audigy 2 and the vortex2 (so I think the audigy at least supports Aureal 1.0.)
My questions are:
- Does Windows XP support a3d? Which version(s)?
- Does Windows XP support / work with games that support a3d and is a3d usable with them - or does the vortex2 card (in this case) simply use the directsound (3d) acceleration?
- Which drivers are the best to use?
Thanks in advance!