PurpleAngel
Headphoneus Supremus
That's not exactly what happened. Before Vista, audio subsystem in Windows was created in a similar way to graphics subsystem, meaning the sound card handled all sound related calculations and not the cpu. Then Vista came and from that point on the sound calculations are handled by the CPU abd only then sent to sound card for final tweaks such as virtual surround.
Did not Alchemy allow the Creative cards to again deal more directly with audio?