Lord_FinnSon Posted October 5, 2002 Share Posted October 5, 2002 I heard the first one is essentially same as original Game Theater XP(which has got plenty of positive reviews), but with 6.1 support added, so I have been thinking of buying it instead of Audigy 2(which also has 6.1 support and according to initial viewing sounds promising). The reason is that because I'm buying a new PC with VIA chipset based mobo and many users gripe about serious issues and bugs that Sound Blaster Live/Audigy drivers have with them, I may choose Game Theater. Then again, newer games(as we all know JK2 being one of them) support EAX Advanced HD effects, so Audigy 2 may be valuable after all, which is why I have this dilemma. So, what do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonkH8er Posted October 5, 2002 Share Posted October 5, 2002 pppfffft sound card shmound card. ive been running on a good ol' SB16 for yeeeeears and its fine i cant tell the difference with some fancy shmanchy 6.1 surround crap. i just game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kstar__2 Posted October 5, 2002 Share Posted October 5, 2002 well, 6.1 iz cool in games, and can seriously help you locate enymies, otherwhise, it's just a fancy thing to show of:D i should choose the audigy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCanr2d2 Posted October 6, 2002 Share Posted October 6, 2002 THe curreent drivers for the GameTheatre XP series supports 7.1 at the moment, so that is over kill, even for DVD's. Not even Dolby Digital EX or DTS EX support that many channels yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted October 6, 2002 Share Posted October 6, 2002 It'll be sooooo cool when they do though. When those kind of systems are actually supported by the software I'll definatly be buying them...until then though there isnt actually any point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_FinnSon Posted October 8, 2002 Author Share Posted October 8, 2002 I also agree with you that 7.1 is simply overkill at the time of this writing, because movies and some newer games have only recently started to use 6.1, and there isn't complete speaker sets yet available for 8 channel configuration. I didn't even know there was also 7.1 version of Game Theater XP available until you brought it up, even though I have pondered about possibility of buying Hercules' new Gamesurround Fortissimo III 7.1 which is very inexpensive. However, back to the topic. It seems that Creative has done some tweaking to sound quality of Audigy 2 as opposed to original card, so I wanna know if some of you people has had a chance to hear both of these cards(original Audigy in this case) running and was there really any significant difference? Also, what about drivers: have you encountered any serious bugs in familiar games so far? How about Dos support? Does it really recognize Game Theater as Sound Blaster(16) as it's supposed to emulate Creative's older cards in that mode just like Live/Audigy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCanr2d2 Posted October 8, 2002 Share Posted October 8, 2002 I think that depends on the OS that you are using, but I don't believe the GT XP doesn't have that DOS support. Although it doesn't say that there aren't free fixes for this, especially for Win2K and XP for ANY PCI card and the "pretend" DOS that is run in these OS's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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