Driver mod for EMU to get Audigy 4 game sounds

[Distroyed]

So Matt, have you tried this yet? I don't understand why you're endorsing this so thouroughly without even having tried it yourself.

 

[mattpwill]

I'm intreagued, as I'm going home at the weekend and I'll fit the EMU 0404. I want to know if it works, as I won't have any surround sound at uni, only this card and HD595s!

Matt

 

[maarek99]

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Originally Posted by Magsy Thats what I did to the letter and it didn't work. Besides, he has an Audigy.

Did you remove ALL traces of Creative drivers from your system? With the utility that is on your emu cd? Atleast it was on my 0404 cd.

 

[Magsy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by maarek99 Did you remove ALL traces of Creative drivers from your system? With the utility that is on your emu cd? Atleast it was on my 0404 cd.

So it works for you then?

 

[maarek99]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magsy So it works for you then?

The utility works, haven't tried the modded drivers. But they do work on sblive 24-bit and it doesn't even have a dsp so I don't see a reason it wouldn't work.

 

[mattpwill]

OK I'm home and am going to try out this driver. Just installed an ABIT NF7-S and the northbridge fan is sooo noisy ARGGGH. Any alternative fan recommendation?

Just listened to my new HD595s on hifi downstairs (a good one). Wow they're awesome! Got them new for £95 thanks to a misprice

I've got no Creative drivers installed so I'm trying from a clean system.

Thanks
Matt

 

[Mr.Radar]

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Originally Posted by mattpwill OK I'm home and am going to try out this driver. Just installed an ABIT NF7-S and the northbridge fan is sooo noisy ARGGGH. Any alternative fan recommendation?

Get the Zalman passive northbridge cooler. It's completely silent (no fan at all).

 

[mattpwill]

Thanks, I've just bought me one of these

http://www.thecoolingshop.com/produc...roducts_id/696

Is this about right?

Thanks
Matt

 

[Mr.Radar]

Yep, that's the one.

 

[boodi]

I got it too for the noise issue with my abit , I hope it cools ok even without the fan ..

 

[Mr.Radar]

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Originally Posted by boodi I got it too for the noise issue with my abit , I hope it cools ok even without the fan ..

As long as you have decent circuilation in your case it should be fine, even for moderate overclocking.

 

[boodi]

sorry to be sliaghtly off topic

I'm going very soon to 0404 but before i do that I'm trying to do av710 at his best ( thanks for the guidelines you posted )

My problem is :

av710 has a digital out which i use with my current dts setup.
How should i do to extract the best for games that use 4 speaker surround / 5.1 out of my chain ?

av710 ( DIG OUT ) --- optical cable --- dolby / DTS system ( in my case it's a videologic digitheatre )

 

[Mr.Radar]

The AV-710 (or any soundcard besides nVidia's SoundStorm, which is integrated into their nForce 1 and 2 chipsets) can only do 2-channels over the digital output max. In that case you'll need to use the analog outputs to get surround sound. I think that Terratec is coming out with a new card sometime this year with a built-in Dolby Digital encoder so that'd let you get 5.1 over the digital connection.

 

[boodi]

but my setup has got a decoder ...
I'd just like to know if it is possible to pass the signal as-is to the decoder , in order to make the decoder doing the 5.1 job

 

[Mr.Radar]

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Most games don't generate Dolby Digital streams (it's almost always 6-channel LPCM) so there's nothing to pass through. DVDs will work just fine with the AV-710 for digital surround because their audio is already Dolby Digital/DTS encoded.