Missing VIA sounds cards.AUDIOTRAK made cards built on the VIA chip sets that used their own firmware and drivers witch allowed more control over the card.

What do VIA cards offer that a Creative card cant?

chinny22 wrote:

What do VIA cards offer that a Creative card cant?

Both EXA2.0 and A3d. Full range equalizers unlike the simple bass trouble sliders most XP era sound blasters had, 3d sound and a lot of other neat sound effects things like Qsizzle and Qrumble, a few VIA cards had wavetable headers too.

Personally the only 2 non-X-Fi sound cards that Im interested in for win2k/XP, are the nvidia soundstorm audio built onto nforce2 chipset motherboards, since its the same as what the og xbox has, and the other being sound cards with the Crystal CS4630 chip like the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or Hercules GameTheater XP

Auzentech
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1412/auzent … card/index.html

There are several great m-audio cards for cp. I own this one for example and it is amazingly good.

XP was the era when the sound card died, especially for gaming. Maybe audiophiles or home theater enthusiasts might look for something more, but who here really care about that?

kolderman wrote:

XP was the era when the sound card died, especially for gaming. Maybe audiophiles or home theater enthusiasts might look for something more, but who here really care about that?

lots of people.

appiah4 wrote:

There are several great m-audio cards for cp. I own this one for example and it is amazingly good.

So long as people understand, this card is not directly equivalent to a Creative card. The ICE chipset is designed around studio quality music recording and playback with minimal or no internal processing. They were best driven by low latency drivers that minimized jitter and other glitches that might degrade audio. Some cards had drivers that supported 3d positional audio (via Sensaura, I believe), but this was not their primary purpose nor the area where they were brilliant.