First post, by carlostex
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- l33t
I'm not gonna lie about it, the AWE64 cards do not impress me at all. The Gold which was top of their line was an OK card. Its SnR was probably better than any other Creative card, but still it was far from impressive.
But the AWE cards do have their interesting points. For me i do appreciate AWE Emu8000 synth chip. I'm not actually praising Creative, they had to acquire another company to get that technology, but at least Creative was creative enough to acquire good technology.
Since i really don't care about the SB16 part in the card i was wondering if its possible to just use the Emu8000 chip without turning the SB16 part on. It would be like using the AWE64 as a CT1920 Goldfinch addon card. I wish i had tried when i was still living in Portugal, even using a SB Pro and a GUS in conjuction with the AWE64 Gold i didn't cared about the SB16 being there or not. But would be cool to try. I'll be in Portugal for 2 weeks starting early November, and as i'm planning a Retro build for me in the UK i'd rather get on this now. I know that i can disable the SB16 part via CTPNP.cfg, although i think then CTCM and AWEUTIL will start popping errors.
Has anyone tried this, or willing to try it?