Friday 2010-02-25 Development update:Interview by Grégory Lemasson/Discussion Thread

[WhiteSnake]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Good news since sounds have been a bit problematic in IL-2 during the years. Currently I am using a Realtek AC1200 sound chip installed on my motherboard. It seems to work just fine, even better than my Creative X-Fi I have there. That card caused popping sounds etc.

ASUS Mobo???
Realtek ALC1200 is a Realtek ALC6xx wich ASUS bought in huge numbers wen Realtek dumped them, ASUS added a few new features trough the Mainboard and Relabled it as ALC1200, its a pretty poor Soundchip, maybe they where hoping to sell more Sonar cards that way?

Only way i see that being better than an X-Fi is if you where using a ExtremeAudio wich has no X-Fi procesor and is simply a Rebranded Audigy with an X-Fi user-interface, or if you where using the wrong settings for it.

Realtek HDA ALC8xx are the ones you want an they beat a X-Fi ExtremeGamer easly for this game but only because IL2 uses DirectX DirectSound (not DirectSound3D, wich is difrent but gives the same isue) so it cant make use of anything the X-Fi has to offer and your better of (higher FPS but it can also solve crashes) if you Disable all the Soundcards features both in Windows and in the Game.

Here is a quick explanation of the difrences between DirectSound(3D) and OpenAL Sound under Vista (Windows 7): http://connect.creativelabs.com/open...%E2%84%A2.aspx

[Flanker35M]

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Yes, ASUS M4A79T Deluxe (AMD 790FX chipset) mobo. The Realtek seems to work just fine, all games I play I have had zero problems. Could be an ExtremeAudio card I got, need to check. I would rather buy a really good sound card if I knew SoW will support it I have had no problems with this AMD rig I use for now, works at least and even slightly better than my Intel rig I had before, heh!