JazzJackRabbit
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Hi,
Currently I have Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 installed in my PC. It's a great card and has given me zero problems. The drivers are very light, less than 2 megs in size, but they have every feature I need including native support for every possible bitrate, WDM, DirectX and ASIO support.
Now, my dad needs a new soundcard so I've been thinking about upgrading to 1212m and selling him my Audiotrak. I wanted to get Prodigy 7.1XT, but it doesn't seem to be available in the US. So 1212m is the next choice. However have read a lot of negative comments about 1212m driver support, including game support and WDM drivers. I use my computer for everything, including listening to music with foobar kernel streaming, watching DVD movies and playing games. I don't need eax support and I'm perfectly fine with 2 sound channel in games (since I mostly play with headphones anyway). I also use digital output when I want to watch DVDs so that's an important feature too. So I have a few questions about 1212m drivers and how it works in general.
1.I have read a while ago that 1212m didn't have WDM support so you couldn't even watch DVDs on it, however I have also read that e-mu has added WDM support and everything works now, is this correct?
2.Does it work with games, at all? I have read that it has problems with games, however nobody has ever said if they tried to get eax working or simply 2 channel audio. Will 1212m work with games as long as I use 2 channels?
3.I have read that you must manually switch within drivers 44.1 and 48Khz mode if you want to listen to CD audio or watch DVD. What happens then? If I want to watch DVD and have the selector set to 44.1Khz will the card resample the sound down to 44.1Khz or will I get no sound at all?
4.I have my speakers connected via digital out. Does 1212m support dolby digital and dts5.1 via digital connectors? What about analog ones?
5.Right now I don't have any amp (yeah, I know I should get one, but I don't have that much money and I don't really want to settle on it), can I plug senn600 directly into the card with appropriate adapters? Will 1212m be able to drive them w/o amplifier?
6.Can I individually mute and change volume levels on analog out channels in case I want to watch DVD via digital out but don't want headphones playing?
Thanks, JazzJackRabbit
Currently I have Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 installed in my PC. It's a great card and has given me zero problems. The drivers are very light, less than 2 megs in size, but they have every feature I need including native support for every possible bitrate, WDM, DirectX and ASIO support.
Now, my dad needs a new soundcard so I've been thinking about upgrading to 1212m and selling him my Audiotrak. I wanted to get Prodigy 7.1XT, but it doesn't seem to be available in the US. So 1212m is the next choice. However have read a lot of negative comments about 1212m driver support, including game support and WDM drivers. I use my computer for everything, including listening to music with foobar kernel streaming, watching DVD movies and playing games. I don't need eax support and I'm perfectly fine with 2 sound channel in games (since I mostly play with headphones anyway). I also use digital output when I want to watch DVDs so that's an important feature too. So I have a few questions about 1212m drivers and how it works in general.
1.I have read a while ago that 1212m didn't have WDM support so you couldn't even watch DVDs on it, however I have also read that e-mu has added WDM support and everything works now, is this correct?
2.Does it work with games, at all? I have read that it has problems with games, however nobody has ever said if they tried to get eax working or simply 2 channel audio. Will 1212m work with games as long as I use 2 channels?
3.I have read that you must manually switch within drivers 44.1 and 48Khz mode if you want to listen to CD audio or watch DVD. What happens then? If I want to watch DVD and have the selector set to 44.1Khz will the card resample the sound down to 44.1Khz or will I get no sound at all?
4.I have my speakers connected via digital out. Does 1212m support dolby digital and dts5.1 via digital connectors? What about analog ones?
5.Right now I don't have any amp (yeah, I know I should get one, but I don't have that much money and I don't really want to settle on it), can I plug senn600 directly into the card with appropriate adapters? Will 1212m be able to drive them w/o amplifier?
6.Can I individually mute and change volume levels on analog out channels in case I want to watch DVD via digital out but don't want headphones playing?
Thanks, JazzJackRabbit