Best sound card for World of Warcaft under Linux?

[DeepDayze]

Sorry but you don't, you are getting false positives.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10603

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13852

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11764

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11499

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.gi...5;hb=HEAD#l266


Don't trust what apps "report" and what is actually capable. Fmod in wine is horrible at reporting audio capabilities. My Chaintech AV-710 for example reports 4096 voices even though it is a pure audio controller with no DSP capabilities.

I have that same exact card and it works flawlessly for me

[deanjo]

I have that same exact card and it works flawlessly for me

Oh it works, not saying it doesn't, just don't believe what is reported. Reporting 4096 voices on a card that does not even support hw acceleration was just an example.

OT BTW Great bitperfect card on the cheap the AV-710 is. Totally bummed me out when IC Ensemble got bought out by via.

[deanjo]

There are a few cards in my collection that deserve legendary status:

Gravis Ultrasound
Adlib Gold with surround sound daughter card
Yamaha SW1000XG (best damn midi period)
Monstersound MX-300
Philips Acoustic Sound Edge (why oh why did they loose the specs, hardware Qsound was amazing)
AV-710
M-Audio 24/96
Auzentech X-Meridian

[chrisr]

Just as a FYI multi voice hardware mixing is not present in the linux x-fi drivers.

According to Takashi, X-Fis based upon the EMU20K1/2 chips do support hardware mixing.

[deanjo]

According to Takashi, X-Fis based upon the EMU20K1/2 chips do support hardware mixing.

The chip does, the alsa drivers however do not.

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...-Creative_Labs

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...trix:Tag-HWMIX

[chrisr]

The chip does, the alsa drivers however do not.

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...-Creative_Labs

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...trix:Tag-HWMIX

That matrix is out-of-date.

And according to Takashi's email:
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipe...ry/024727.html

[BlackStar]

Noone in their right mind should give their money to Creative after the Linux/X-Fi screwup. Besides, the Xonars are better value for money.

On the other hand, consider getting an external digital decoder and/or better speakers instead of a new sound card. Integrated sound card + digital out will usually give better sound quality than dedicated sound card + analogue out.

Finally, you won't get hardware mixing on Wine (much less hardware acceleration of EAX/EFX). A dedicated sound card is a waste of money if performance is your goal.

[MNKyDeth]

That matrix is out-of-date.

And according to Takashi's email:
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipe...ry/024727.html

This is very interesting to me as I was just pondering wich audio card to upgrade to. Replacing my audigy2zs. I have looked at many studio solutions because they have hardware mixing support in linux. RME, and a few others.

If all I want is audio playback of anything, games, music etc, plus the ability to use teamspeak or other voice chat software like mumble is the X-fi worth it?

To quote the mailing list you referred us too.

There is no sequencer support, and no access to the DSP features,
which would be needed to put it in line with the old emu10k1 features.

What is it exactly that we are losing? What does the sequencer and dsp do? DSP uses the crystalier? what is that and how does that effect us as well?

Sorry to revive the old thread, I just would like a bit more info on what I would be giving up versus my current Audigy2zs as the X-fi seems like the only affordable hardware mixing upgrade.