Re: little survey about SB live with GPL

It's been quite a while since the upgrade, but if my memory serves me well, I saw a 6-8 fps increase while staying at the same number of sounds(4) or a 3-4 fps increase if the number of sounds were maxed out. This was an upgrade from an Ensonic pci card on a PII400. Although the increase in fps is a plus, it's the quality of the audio that impressed me. One item of note, some people have had problems with the Creative Launcher crashing GPL. The Launcher is included in the software from Creative Labs. You can choose not to install it or just turn it off in the SBL controls. -- don [|]-(_)-[|] "jld" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Just a basic question: > In terms of frame rate improvement in gpl, what did you experienced > replacing your old sound card with SBLIVE. Please give info about your > hardware and some points of comparison before and after in terms of REAL > fps improvement . Does it improve FPS (everything being the same except > the sound card) or can you just increase the number of sounds with the > same FPS? > > I have currently a maxi Dynamic 3d (guillemot) and i 'm wondering if > going to a SB live would really improve frame rate (especially at > starts). > > My config is celeron 300 oc to 463, voodoo 3 2000 oc to 192 mhz and maxi > dynamic 3d sound card > > thanks for your time!!! > >

Just a basic question: In terms of frame rate improvement in gpl, what did you experienced replacing your old sound card with SBLIVE. Please give info about your hardware and some points of comparison before and after in terms of REAL fps improvement . Does it improve FPS (everything being the same except the sound card) or can you just increase the number of sounds with the same FPS? I have currently a maxi Dynamic 3d (guillemot) and i 'm wondering if going to a SB live would really improve frame rate (especially at starts). My config is celeron 300 oc to 463, voodoo 3 2000 oc to 192 mhz and maxi dynamic 3d sound card thanks for your time!!!

> what did you experienced replacing your old sound card with SBLIVE I replaced a Creative Awe64 with an SBLive! (Value) and noticed... 1) my steering wheel in the cockpit view is much less twitchy. 2) the frame rate definitely improved. Not a lot, but enough that I noticed. Andrew McP

I have a 350 PII. Voodoo3-3000. PDPI game card. I got about 2fps on the grid when I upgraded to sb live value from onboard crystal sound. The pdpi was also worth about 2fps but I didnt compare it to the sb live game port. In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] wrote: > Just a basic question: > In terms of frame rate improvement in gpl, what did you experienced > replacing your old sound card with SBLIVE. Please give info aboutyour > hardware and some points of comparison before and after in terms ofREAL > fps improvement . Does it improve FPS (everything being the sameexcept

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> the sound card) or can you just increase the number of sounds with the > same FPS? > > I have currently a maxi Dynamic 3d (guillemot) and i 'm wondering if > going to a SB live would really improve frame rate (especially at > starts). > > My config is celeron 300 oc to 463, voodoo 3 2000 oc to 192 mhz and

maxi > dynamic 3d sound card > > thanks for your time!!! > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

No FPS improvement here. GPL runs well on my system but I did not get ANY fps improvement from SB live. p-266 mmx 16 mb Voodoo 3 2000 128 MSDRAM SB Live Value "jld" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Just a basic question: > In terms of frame rate improvement in gpl, what did you experienced > replacing your old sound card with SBLIVE. Please give info about your > hardware and some points of comparison before and after in terms of REAL > fps improvement . Does it improve FPS (everything being the same except > the sound card) or can you just increase the number of sounds with the > same FPS? > > I have currently a maxi Dynamic 3d (guillemot) and i 'm wondering if > going to a SB live would really improve frame rate (especially at > starts). > > My config is celeron 300 oc to 463, voodoo 3 2000 oc to 192 mhz and maxi > dynamic 3d sound card > > thanks for your time!!! > >

thanks for the infos. It seems the results is dependent of the system? I'll try to borrow a SB LIVE and test it...

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> Just a basic question: > In terms of frame rate improvement in gpl, what did you experienced > replacing your old sound card with SBLIVE. Please give info about your > hardware and some points of comparison before and after in terms of REAL > fps improvement . Does it improve FPS (everything being the same except > the sound card) or can you just increase the number of sounds with the > same FPS? > I have currently a maxi Dynamic 3d (guillemot) and i 'm wondering if > going to a SB live would really improve frame rate (especially at > starts). > My config is celeron 300 oc to 463, voodoo 3 2000 oc to 192 mhz and maxi > dynamic 3d sound card > thanks for your time!!!