x7007 wrote:
Anyone else with the issue ? I just ordered Asus Raid DLX sound card, and Virtual surround is my main use for it. do we still have Dolby surround for it ? or only Virtual Surround is the only option ?
In game works fine, but if you're worried bout it like I was, when you turn on spacial 7.1 windows sound, it will "work" when you click on the various speakers. The latest drivers though are horrible for rear sound from the 7-6 and 6-5 o'clock positions but from 7 (clockwise) - 4 o'clock the sound is good.
I've tried it with windows spatial (best directional sound but worse sound quality as it's 16 bit only), spacial off and 16/24 bit settings.
My last beef is that the "forward" speaker sounds like it's coming from above me, not in-front of me.
Over all, I am not impressed with SOAR and would not recommend it now that SB has a 7.1 virtual SS card, the AE-5, but I've read a lot of reviews that the card itself is unreliable. So...i'm between a rock and a hard place.