spincut
07-26-2007, 04:03 PM
*as a sidenote, this is a about the Xi-Fi cards and the alchemy version for that is indeed free
I had said quite a bit on the issue of Creative soundcards and Vista already in another thread, and really there isnt a whole lot more to be said now that it seems there is a program that at least attempts to cover up for its hardware accelration defficiencies (at least from a gaming end....although that may be mainly were said deficiencies primarily lie), called Alchemy.
it apparently is directly supported by creative (i didnt know this before) and acts as a sort of database that slowly adds support for games that use the rather wideley used directsound API which Vista will not allow Soundblasters to take advantage of anymore and is done in software.
ANYWAY, what i want to know is, for those that currently own a vista machine with a Xi-Fi (obviously maingear, but it doesnt really have to be) have you used alchemy? does it work for you? have you noticed the difference (aside from just the EAX option being enabled....as i assume all that would be greyed out or something???).
Also, how does it work? I mean, it automatically fixed the directory of all applicable games right? do you have to reinstall it every time you get a new game, or does it autodetect?
-anyhow, any type of info on this from users with the personal experience to provide it would be useful.
I had said quite a bit on the issue of Creative soundcards and Vista already in another thread, and really there isnt a whole lot more to be said now that it seems there is a program that at least attempts to cover up for its hardware accelration defficiencies (at least from a gaming end....although that may be mainly were said deficiencies primarily lie), called Alchemy.
it apparently is directly supported by creative (i didnt know this before) and acts as a sort of database that slowly adds support for games that use the rather wideley used directsound API which Vista will not allow Soundblasters to take advantage of anymore and is done in software.
ANYWAY, what i want to know is, for those that currently own a vista machine with a Xi-Fi (obviously maingear, but it doesnt really have to be) have you used alchemy? does it work for you? have you noticed the difference (aside from just the EAX option being enabled....as i assume all that would be greyed out or something???).
Also, how does it work? I mean, it automatically fixed the directory of all applicable games right? do you have to reinstall it every time you get a new game, or does it autodetect?
-anyhow, any type of info on this from users with the personal experience to provide it would be useful.