Computer folks!!! Sound card for game.

[immajackuup]

Is this a good sound card for battlefield bad company 2??

http://www.directron.com/xonardx.html

[delfin]

Xonars are excellent cards. Not sure about that retailer, though.

[immajackuup]

Xonars are excellent cards. Not sure about that retailer, though.

Cool,I probably buy the dg version because is cheaper and the reviews are good. As for the retailer is local to me and all the computer builders go there instead of microcenter and fry's.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0355812

[dreamchasin]

You don't need a beast sound card, I have a Realtek HD 7.1, and I murder people on Counter Strike 1.6/Source, and Bad Company 2.

[TurboJake]

I have to be honest. My motherboards realtek ALC889A Chipset sounds amazing and works fantastically in all my games. Including bad company 2 on the war tapes setting. Home cinema setting sounds fantastic too, with less echo.

Simply can't wait for BF3

It even supports creative X-Fi for older games.

[antil33t]

Onboard sound.

Except if you use digital to your receiver, then you need something that can do DD/DTS on the fly.

[TurboJake]

My chipset can. Optical output right on the mobo. Works great :D
But, I only have 5.1 for my computers sound. If I wanted 7.1 I'd have to use it's on-board HDMI, or the regular old analog outputs.



So I guess the real question is, what motherboard do you have in your rig?

[antil33t]

You won't get multi channel in games using optical out/coax/digital, windows doesn't support it.

you can in movies/video, as it will pass-thru dolby/dts in movies that have it...

[TurboJake]

Yeah, forgot about that bit.
I only used the optical when It was a HTPC before the PS3, playon, and ps3 media server came, of which the optical worked perfect. Now I use the analog outputs for my current 5.1 to an older creative inspire t5400.

Still sounds great.

[antil33t]

Yeah, it's a huge pain, my amp only has digital, no analogue, was only on the higher specc'd models... and that was the only real feature it added... same amp, same processor... just extra ports.. fml


perfect for media, less than ideal for games.

[immajackuup]

holy crap!!! When using Xonars sound card comparing to on board is night and day!!!!

Also my computer doesn't freez no more on bc2,bc2 doesn't work well with realtek on board sound.

[TurboJake]

Dunno what your talking about. It works perfectly with mine. Not one hiccup.
But to each their own. No arguing from me

[immajackuup]

Dunno what your talking about. It works perfectly with mine. Not one hiccup.
But to each their own. No arguing from me

If you google search you'll see lots of people having problem with on board sound from freezing and glitching.