I picked up a new toy for my computer last Friday. I started turning the backgound music in WoW back on because it just sounds absolutely rich and phenomenal in comparison to my old Audigy. Just FYI: The X-Fi Xtreme Gamer is pretty much the same card as the Fata1ty FPS, just $100 cheaper and without the front audio panel and remote. What can I say? I like shiny buttons...
I guess my only major complaint about the card is that the X-Fi uses a shared audio input/output "flexijack" for all non speaker related connections. So if you have multiple devices, a microphone and whatever else, you will probably have to swap them in and out. That isn't a problem though if you have the front panel.
Word of advice to anyone trying to enable use of the maximum number of sound channels in WoW: It's disabled by default for some reason. Go into your WoW directory, open the WTF folder, and then open "config.wtf" At the very bottom of the file, add this line:
[code]SET SoundOutputSystem "1"[/code]
Otherwise, if you don't have a sound card that supports 128 sound channels, keep moving the slider down one tick at a time until you can hear things /shrug. I'm not sure why they aren't labeled, it's sort of annoying.
Also, a lot of people seem to be having crackling and popping issues with Creative cards (X-Fi included) and nForce 4 boards. I haven't had any of these problems yet, knock on wood, but there isn't a good solution to this problem yet to my knowledge, so it is something to keep in mind if you are thinking of purchasing one.
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What a coincidence! I snagged one at work last week. It's only the X-Fi Xtrememusic version, but I got it for about $20. From what I know, the Xtrememusic version is the same as the Xtremegamer, but with additional software. There are 2 versions that have a larger onboard RAM capacity, but those are the highest end ones. The Xtrememusic, Xtremegamer, and Fatality one you got are the same with different addons. Did Creative have to make it so difficult?
Yay for marketting! I hate it when companies do that with product lines o_O; having a thousand versions of the same product with fairly trivial differences. Hmmm what happened to abiding by the "k.i.s.s principle?"
The RAM admitedly, is only utilized in a handful of games (BF2, BF2142, F.E.A.R, a few more maybe)...so the extra $100 premium that I paid for the expensive edition was me wanting a shiny pretty. But ooooh is it nice!
I still need to try it out with BF 2142 and HL2, just haven't been in a "shooter mood" (ended up picking up some unfinished PS2 games instead, before I forget where I left off and have to start the game over).
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