Conclusion
The question I hear over and over when discussing this card with friends is this: “Why bother with a sound card at all? Isn’t the motherboard’s sound good enough these days?” Indeed, if you’re not terribly picky about sound quality, you probably won’t notice the difference. To those with a discerning ear, however, the Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro is certainly worth paying attention to.
The main benefits this card brings to the table are:
- improved 3D audio
- improved sound quality through post-processing
- somewhat improved game performance
- a digital input for streaming surround sound from an external source
If these things are important to you, then the X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro is definitely worth a look.
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@Mythril
And I suppose you did this after cleaning out all traces of old drivers, so there would be no conflicts? Creative’s history with drivers is colorful, true, but I’ve had no issues with it across two different systems–except when I forgot to take out the old sound drivers first.
A lot of times people blame their problems with a new piece of hardware on the supplied drivers, when the real culprit is all the old drivers that have leftover bits and pieces still hooked into the system.
Just something to think about…
What a load of crap. Creatives drivers are utter garbage. I bought one of these cards about a month ago. I had UT3 crashing left, right and centre. Stalker Clear Sky was crashing and so was Fallout 3. Other games I’d tested seemed ok. Ripped out this pos and replaced it with my old sound card. Oh suprise suprise games now not crashing. I bought a Zonar and though thte sound was great the emulated EAX had it’s issues. Stalkers sound was fine apart from not being able to hear my own gun fire. That went back to the shop. Now i’m on a Auzentech Forte 7.1 and EVERYTHING is working the way it should. Just wish Creative could write working drivers !!