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Re: [Quadraphonic] Too bad these two never met.....

Posted on 2016-05-26, 21:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

Aureal supported Dolby digital 5.1 encoding through their S/PDIF output, but it was disabled in later driver versions due to a licensing issue, same with their A3DAPI -> Dolby 5.1 encoding. I haven't bothered to look into the prior drivers to locate which version had it enabled, most likely pre …

Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project

Posted on 2016-05-26, 21:06

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah sorry about the lack of timely updates. This College semester just wrapped up and I'm getting ready to move, so for now it's on hold until I can get everything set back Reversed most the windows driver code and referenced the ALSA drivers for any unknown tidbits. Progress is being made, albiet …

Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2016-05-15, 23:35

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Aureal Vortex2 cards support more than 16 DS3D channels, they can handle 80 DS3D The principle limit is 76, but practically this is limited by drivers. In the beginning, when most review were done, the drivers allowed only 16 hardware DS3D streams. Later 2048 driver, according to ZD Audio Winbench …

Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2016-05-15, 20:25

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Nice guide, lot's of good info there. Just one correction I see, the Aureal Vortex2 cards support more than 16 DS3D channels, they can handle 80 DS3D/96 DS sources with the Aureal drivers. The 16 stated in most reviews were confusing the 16 channels in the A3D audio block as the entire cards limit. …

Re: Nvidia VrWorks Audio

Posted on 2016-05-12, 21:21

in Milliways

in Milliways

Supposedly they have that also with their wWise plugin. I've gotten most my information from articles like this one . If I can't check it out myself I cannot say for certain what it is and how it's used. From what I've read in the archives Sensaura was also considered middleware, and A3D as an API …

Re: Nvidia VrWorks Audio

Posted on 2016-05-12, 21:00

in Milliways

in Milliways

It is middleware in that it's the API which you include with your projects and make function calls to in order to setup the audio pipelines. It's up to the designers to make use of those features and implement the audio chain in their code. Sensaura and A3D needed a bit of coding work to be used …

Re: Nvidia VrWorks Audio

Posted on 2016-05-11, 19:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

TrueAudio is Middleware, but since they leave it to the game designers to implement the good audio features, we've all seen the resulting history of this. Minimal effort put into audio time and time again. Last I checked you needed to use the TrueAudio plugin in wWise to implement it. I would take a …

Re: Nvidia VrWorks Audio

Posted on 2016-05-11, 01:20

in Milliways

in Milliways

It's comments like this that Jerry Mahabub was after getting people to parrot for him. BRTF is just measured ITD values, it does NOT replace the HRTF model as he would like people to believe. He's just a snake oil salesman trying to "revolutionize" the industry as he has stated multiple times in PR …

Nvidia VrWorks Audio

Posted on 2016-05-09, 18:50

in Milliways

in Milliways

VrAudio Works Demo Since the announcement of VRWorks Audio the other day, I've been really excited waiting to hear a demo of it in action. Full Aureal WaveTracing has finally returned! and backed by Nvidia yay!!! I'm still resurrecting the Aureal cards regardless, most likely VrWorks will require …

Re: A3D Vortex 1 any good?

Posted on 2016-05-03, 08:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Compare charts in the AU8820 and AU8830 product briefs. AU8820 has 48 total voice channels, AU8830 has 96. AU8820 lacks hardware HRTF, AU8830 has hardware HRTF support. AU8820 provides hardware mixing for 32 channels to 16 and sample rate converters for 16 channels. AU8830 uses the same hardware. …

Re: Can you disable TnL on a GeForce?

Posted on 2016-05-01, 07:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recall there was this utility I tested for controlling aspects of the MX300 drivers called DirectControl, not sure if it allows T&L tweaking, but it gave a lot of options for tweaking DirectX. Can't open it currently as I am out of town for the weekend and my 98 machine is at home.

Re: Yamaha YMF724 PCI sound card - perfect for my needs?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 17:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very true, just try out both if you have one of the YMF cards and see which one works best for you. Based on what you've said there is no sense to try on YMF version older than latest 2008. A3D 2.0 support is out of YMF official possibilities. Based on what? I'm not sure I understand what purpose …

Re: Yamaha YMF724 PCI sound card - perfect for my needs?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 10:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Using my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz under XP with their last XP drivers, none of the A3D 2.0 games would init properly Santa Cruz is made on other chip - CS4630. The behavior on YMF7x4, wich are discussed here, may differ. Also the situation of using YMF for A3D 2.0 or in XP is not typical for old …

Re: Yamaha YMF724 PCI sound card - perfect for my needs?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 00:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The older version tends to initialize properly where as the later version does not. Concrete examples of games where 2006 works better than 2008 ? but there could be cases where a newer dll is required for certain features to work properly, but I have yet to see a case for this. I saw 2008 …

Re: Yamaha YMF724 PCI sound card - perfect for my needs?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 23:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use this one it's older than 4.12.1.2008 in SensauraVxd2203.zip The older version tends to initialize properly where as the later version does not. I suspect that just because the file is newer doesn't mean it's automatically better, but there could be cases where a newer dll is required for …

Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-18, 18:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

elianda wrote: How does the Terratec DMX Xfire 1024 rank up in this aspect? Just fine, it's using the CS4624 which came out before the Santa Cruz's CS4630 and is still a good DSP, but the CS4630 gives full Sensaura acceleration for gaming. Otherwise I would be hard pressed to notice a difference.

Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-18, 18:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It all depends Compatibility, with windows games? DS3D? EAX? A3D? Sensaura? Either the mentioned Santa Cruz or Yamaha are Sensaura based and cover those pretty well, and are jack of all trade cards thanks to Sensauras API. Dos OPL3 is emulated on the Santa Cruz and is really horrible, but some of …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-08, 06:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you look closer in my picture the Philips chip is missing, but the lanes go instead through the tiny chips RP7 & RP8. The SPDIF line looks intact this way and on cards that have the Philips chip, RP7 & RP8 are missing. Interesting, I hadn't noticed that. Even though it shows Rev. A I'm sure …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-07, 03:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

WP_20160305_09_16_41_Pro.jpg I also bought this Monster Sound. Second time i order from this russian eBay seller and are pleased with cheap prices and quick delivery. Hmm I'm a bit concerned that the Philips inverter chip is missing and the SPDIF line out is cut. Have you tested the IO board to see …

Re: American McGee Alice(2000) A3D 2 Not working

Posted on 2016-02-27, 22:37

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Someone posted a fix for some soundcards on Moddb .(check the Alice downloads section) Just posting this case some one ends up here while looking for fixes. You mean the download where he just includes the games Miles files which should install normally anyways? That's not really a fix for the …

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