Creative Sb0880

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Muredac Ford

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Aug 4, 2024, 2:23:36 PM8/4/24

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Ithas pin-outs for HDMI and can do DTS interactive encoding, so I though PERFECT! Pop this into my media PC, connect the HDMI pinout to my GPU and I should be able to get true surround sound in games on my home theater!

The problem is, none of the creative control software will detect the card. The card shows up in device manager. In Playback devices it only shows the digital outputs. (SPDIF & HDMI) but neither work. The card does not show its analog outputs.

I just tried the card in a Windows 7 x86 PC, and it all worked flawlessly. First time install, and everything showed up as it should. So I know the hardware is fine. Its the 64 bit thats causing problems.

Set the X-Fi to just SPDIF (essentially no better than on-board) (This would mean anything NOT encoded in DTS/DD is passed to the AMP in PCM, at this point the amp automatically does the surround simulation.)

Daniel K is nothing short of genius on those driver packs. During the beta and RC phases of Win7 he was the only one who could put together an x64 driver pack for Win7 and the Creative x-Fi cards. I didn't know he was still busy at it, but kudos to him.

Don't ask us just test both and run a few different things ie classical music with lots of highs and rich sounds some rock and then some rave music dubstep anything to test your speakers in all sorts of ways. Finally run a silent cd to test for system noise. Repeated for both you will discover yourself which you like more and which sounds and works better for you.

Although for speaker fill either will do nicely but as pointed out before you may likely find the DACs in the onkyo amp to be better being a less noisy environment. Although they spec out the same as the soundcard as 24bit DACs with a 192kHz sampling rate.