Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-08-17, 00:09

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by ZanQuance

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Are you going to make these cards sing A3D 2/3 on Windows 10 x64? That would be interesting. I suspect eBay prices might go up. :D I am most excited about them at least working properly with XP. These cards are almost the only reason I mess with the horrors of Win9x and eliminating that would be …

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-08-16, 09:59

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hard1k wrote: Maybe include S/PDIF-in for the TB HS as well? It can be done, S/PDIF input has been identified now.

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-08-16, 05:49

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In Half-Life for example, you don't hear that female voice at the introduction tram ride. This works great with the 2048 drivers though. And all the surround over headphone goodness is also captured nicely over optical that way. I see, this indicates the routing table isn't mixing all the channels …

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-08-15, 21:37

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I'd be most eager about a Windows 9x driver that is bug free and sounds balanced. And ideally working TOSLINK output. I tried the Turtle Beach drivers you mentioned, it also has bugged TOSLINK. Only the 2048 work for me in that regard. What were the issues encountered exactly? I could probably work …

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-08-15, 12:41

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As of last weekend I am back to work on this full steam ahead. I didn't want to tease anyone just incase I had to suddenly drop the project again, my schedule is currently unpredictable. Been pulling a few all nighters to play major catchup, I'm so far behind my schedule. The DOS drivers currently …

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Re: in_vgm with adlib opl

Posted on 2016-08-14, 02:42

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It appears from their site info, that it is emulation only and doesn't support hardware.

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 12:47

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EDIT: Descent III might be worth it after all. It supports Glide, which should help performance and apparently EAX 2 as well as A3D. I read a few reviews and apparently it runs pretty well on K6-2's, I've always tested it on beefier systems, my DOS/98 rigs 440BX, P3-550, TNT2/M64 chews through it …

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 10:29

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by ZanQuance

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Thanks for clarifying. Has this been done in any of the official drivers? Not that I've seen, the list looks like this in the card: (Taken from my debug control panel) Routing.JPG See how the WaveTable (WT) left channel access transfers are second and third in the list? These should be pushed down …

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 03:08

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Triple correction, it appears that Quake1 was 11kHz not 22...hmmm my memory seems to be going bad [edit]From what I can find GLQuake is also 11kHz [edit2 because triple posting is taboo]Descent3 also supports Glide, DS3D, A3D 2.0, and EAX2 and has a built in benchmark feature, plus it saturates the …

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 03:05

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Sorry meant Quake1 not 3, but 3 "also" defaulted to 22khz

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 03:02

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Unreal of course! 😉 *next reply better have a gif of M.Bison [edit]Quake defaulted to 22khz, GLQuake might have changed it to 44.1 correction, Quake1 is 11kHz, if anything GLQuake might be 22kHz

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 02:40

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Nice writeup, I would also be interested in seeing how the Santa Cruz fairs, it's a great card and does full Sensaura acceleration. As well as the SoundStorm DSP on Nforce2 motherboards. There are also a few things to consider when benching the Aureal cards against others in an A3D game. A3D's …

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Re: [retro swim] - An episodic video tour of SquallStrife's retro junk

Posted on 2016-08-07, 07:08

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by ZanQuance

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Cool videos, need to watch some more while I work. Noticed the Vortex 2 wasn't detected in the post, 12EB:0002 isn't there in the list. But it worked in windows, you reseat it during the cut? 😉 no irq conflicts with all that fun in there?

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-08-03, 07:35

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by ZanQuance

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It would be cool if one day we could put hands on old Aureal.com domain (like OpenAL guys did). So that we can have our own robots.txt file with blackjack and hookers, and get old Wayback Machine archived pages back. Too bad its registration will last for long. At the moment it just seems to host …

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Re: Aureal Vortex: What was the last and/ or the most demanding game for it?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 07:51

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by ZanQuance

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As far as I know Star Trek: Elite Force was one of the last games to use A3D. It supports A3D 3.0 with A3DVerb and can make use of the SQ3500's daughterboard to process the effects with the 2050 drivers. Neverwinter Nights was released in 02, but only supports A3D 2.0.

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-07-18, 04:22

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Apparently I only mentioned the reason in a pm and could have sworn I made a post, sorry about that! I recently moved and everything is a mess and packed up right now, once I get settled in properly I'll get things rolling again with the project. Also have a few other things going on that are taking …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 1 and A3D 2.0/3.0???

Posted on 2016-07-11, 22:27

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by ZanQuance

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No, the AU8820 have no hardware support for A3D 2/3.0. The A2D 3.12 include have been completely misunderstood this entire time by the community as an A3D 2/3.0 emulation API. As per the tech manual A2D is only the non-MMX optimized version of the A3D API, and those 3.12 support files only work …

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Re: What are my options for 3D Audio?

Posted on 2016-06-10, 19:18

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Motherboard: X-FI MB3 or any PCI-E Soundblaster will give you the HRTF via SBX or Alchemy, but I think neither are ideal solutions to the 3D audio problems we have today. Raw audio data needs to be sent from the game to a 3D audio API for proper processing, but now a days everything is being pre- …

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-05-27, 20:52

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by ZanQuance

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I'm in Southern California here in the U.S. Did you ever get a chance to install the 2050 drivers with the SQ3500 card and see if it worked?

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Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-05-27, 07:23

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Hmm not sure there is anything at this point that multiple people could help with as I've gotten most everything done so far in an orderly fashion. I'll reopen donations for my efforts once the site launches, I certainly appreciated the ones I've received and am always thinking of good rewards to …

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