> > > None of the Creative sounds cards have digital game port.
> > This is true, but the gameport is *much* better than the standard one
> > that come on most motherboards, and the SBLive has the lowest CPU
> > overhead of any sound card, I believe.
> > You could always get a PDPI card as well... ;-)
> Isn't a digital interface a digital interface? Is the PDPI
> better than the digital ports on my Montego?
> I looked at their page, the PDPI seems to still be an ISA
> device. I heard, I have no way of knowing, that there is a
> performance hit by having ISA devices in the system.
> I'm going to have a lot of PCI equipment, including a serial
> MUX. So having a joystick interface on a sound card is important.
I don't know whether the PDPI is better than the Montego - speed-wise
they're probably the same (both instant by comparison with analogue) -
the PDPI does have some fancy smoothing circuitry which makes the signal
ultra-stable, apparently (and it is indeed extremely smooth and solid).
Again, I don't know how that compares with the Montego.
Having said that, the analogue joystick port on the SBLive is also
pretty smooth - I can set the steering to fully linear without jitter,
which I certainly couldn't with the old gameport.
I guess it comes down to whether the CPU overhead reduction due to using
a digital gameport is more important than the CPU overhead reduction due
to using a SBLive card! ;-)
