got a real soundcard today ... and this is what happend..

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realninja

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the sound is now lightyears beyond the builtin soundcard .. this game just got even better .. and u can locate sounds thru headphones, and hear distance etc.. and the weapon sounds are awesome .. but now ... the game sounds like its a 50's movie , where all voices are recorded indoors lol... maybe thats the case .. its a asus xonar essence btw, and got it mostly t o improve music quality outside games ;)
 
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Icey_Pain

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The Asus Xonar essence STX is better for music while the Creative X-fi Titanium HD would be better for gaming.

Having said that, if I would not ever buy a Creative card ever again. Their driver support is absolutely horrendous, they have bugs in their cards that just never get solved. So you made the right choice to be honest.
 
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u-s-e-r

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The game uses XAudio2 so your soundcard shouldnt make any difference regarding positional audio etc.

Only general audio quality. Maybe your built-in soundcard was just a POS :p
 
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aesdana

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u-s-e-r said:
The game uses XAudio2 so your soundcard shouldnt make any difference regarding positional audio etc.

Only general audio quality. Maybe your built-in soundcard was just a POS :p
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This.

Built-in soundcards like VIA and Realtek chipsets are so good today even on the most cheap motherboards, it
 
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mechtech

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The Xonar range has a very "distant" soundstage compared to many other cards I've tried. This makes locating positional sounds extremely easy. It's a real advantage in multiplayer games with good positional audio support (RO2 doesn't really qualify unfortunately).

If the game supports 5.1/7.1, go into the xonar drivers, crank it to 5.1/7.1, and check "dolby headphone". This uses a DSP to down-mix multi-channel audio into stereo while preserving the perception of directional audio. It adds a bit of reverb, but it's absolutely like sound based maphacking at times. Only use it when you have 5.1/7.1 available, mixing stereo to stereo is obviously not going to add anything.
 
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