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I don't bother to update from Diamond Website, I used Aureal's reference
driver.

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Terry wrote in message ...
>I just bought a Sound Blaster platinum and installed it today.  Got it
>from Buycomp for $162  My last two sound cards have been Aureal (Diamond
>MX300 with Aureal 2 and Turtle Beach Montego with Aureal 1).  My main
>reasons for buying these cards was for 3d positional sound.  I've been
>very unhappy with Diamond for not updating the MX300 drivers, in fact
>they are still beta on the web site.  Last time I buy anything from them.
>One of the things I really liked about the Platinum is Live Drive which
>fits in a %1/4 drive bay and give you connectors and volume control for
>almost everything inculding headsets.  There is also a ton of gane
>software and freebie MP3 apps as well as a cheap microphone.  There is
>alot of stuff here for the money.  Anyway I almost always use a headset
>to play games, usually Half-life or mods of hal-life and Unreal
>Tournament.  One thing I liked aobut the SB is that there is absolutley
>no cpu utilization.  So my impressions of the SB in games is very good.
>if there is a loss of 3d positional information I can't hear it.  Also
>the sound is better in that is sounds clearer and crisper.  I'm very
>happy so far.
>-Terry

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Ed Bain <email@the_end.com> wrote:
:>reasons for buying these cards was for 3d positional sound.  I've been 
:>very unhappy with Diamond for not updating the MX300 drivers, in fact 
:>they are still beta on the web site.  Last time I buy anything from them. 

: uhh.. why aren't you using the AUREAL drivers?

Exactly. Latest Diamond drivers are from February 11th. In a word, OUCH!

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 05:48:25 GMT, email@the_end.com (Ed Bain) wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 05:00:02 GMT,
>in msg <MPG.127f0001c3ef93fd98974f@news>,
>Terry <tthiel1@home.net> said :
>
>>My main 
>>reasons for buying these cards was for 3d positional sound.  I've been 
>>very unhappy with Diamond for not updating the MX300 drivers, in fact 
>>they are still beta on the web site.  Last time I buy anything from them. 
>
>uhh.. why aren't you using the AUREAL drivers?

Aureal drivers work pretty well for me, except for X-Wing Alliance.
It crashes when I use 3D sound in that game. When I turn off 3D it
does run, but that's not why I bought the Mx300.

This is the only game where that happens. Anybody else experienced
this, or knows a way to fix it? (I do have the patch for X-Wing
Alliance)

With the diamond drivers I have no problems whatsoever in X-Wing
Alliance.

Marc