Скачать или смотреть System Shock 2: EAX 1.0 vs EAX 2.0 drivers, Positional Audio (HRTF) comparison — Sound Blaster Live

REAL HARDWARE CAPTURE IN 4:3 ASPECT RATIO.

Note that System Shock 2 does NOT make use of EAX 2.0 features. The difference in 3D audio is purely a byproduct of driver modifications retroactively brought over to older EAX 1.0 games as part of the newer EAX 2.0 compliant Sound Blaster Live drivers.

- SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS -
Operating system used: Microsoft Windows 98 (First Edition/FE).
Drivers used for Matrox Millennium II: Matrox PowerDesk 4.21 (September 1998).
Drivers used for Sound Blaster Live: 4.05.1026 VXD (September 1998) for EAX 1.0 drivers, 4.06.654 VXD (July/August 1999) for EAX 2.0 drivers.
Drivers used for Voodoo2: Voodoo Graphics Driver Kit 3.03.00 (June/July 1999).

This footage and audio was captured from the following computer:
Dell Dimension XPS R400 case and motherboard (manufactured on April 30th 1998 according to case label)
Intel 440BX chipset
Intel Pentium II 400 Mhz processor (S-Spec SL2S7, manufactured week 14 1998)
Matrox Millennium II AGP (8MB) video card (2164W chip manufactured week 4 1998)
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 (CT6670) (12MB) 3D accelerator card (old variant with dark-colored circuit board, board manufactured week 9 1998)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! (CT4620) sound card (board manufactured week 21 1998)
Turtle Beach Montego II (Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830) sound card (board manufactured week 37 1998)
192MBs of PC100 SDR SDRAM (1x128MB & 1x64MB DIMM, manufactured week 42 1998 & week 11 1998)

The capturing was done with VCS (VisionRGB Capture Scaler) and OBS Studio using a Datapath VisionRGB-E1S PCI-Express capture card plugged into the following system: ASUS Maximus IV Extreme motherboard, Intel Core i7-2600K CPU, 8 GBs DDR3 SDRAM, nVidia GTX 580 video card. A VGA-to-DVI cable is connected between the source computer and the Datapath capture card to enable video capturing. Audio capture was done by feeding a 3.5mm stereo jack cable into the line in on the motherboard from the sound card of the vintage computer. Resizing/upscaling of the raw original 640x480 capture to 2560x1920 was done using VirtualDub2.

TIME STAMPS !!
0:00 - EAX 1.0 drivers
0:53 - EAX 2.0 drivers

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