PacoTaco
500+ Head-Fier
I don't think that is true. cmss 3d on the x fi line could do what you are describing, but sbx, I imagine, is a regression to a dolby headphone style of doing things, just because games these days don't give raw audio data to sound cards anymore.
I thought that, but Creative does own the CMSS stuff. It's also called 3DRecon or something on the Sound Blaster soundcards. I had to talk to a lot of customer reps about my X7 not wanting to accept 5.1 (I had the bitrate too high,) and they recommended constantly that I should keep it at 2.1 because 3D sound is game-dependent. I think BF4 was one of those that has a profile that the SBX takes advantage of, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
Otherwise, it does resort to doing the dolby-headphone style of things, but it has the advantage of being a newer algorithm that has actually seen improvement over the years. There's nothing wrong with the Dolby headphone-way of things, as using static "speakers" makes it able to take any 5.1/7.1 signal, but Dolby just hasn't really improved their stuff since...god knows when.