[SOLVED] Sound card for gaming

debwalker · 01-27-2014, 07:03 AM

I'm looking for a decent sound card for gaming purposes that works 100% in linux.

The only real 'gaming' feature I'm looking for is for small sounds to be enhanced, and to get a better idea where a sound came from. Example, footsteps or gunfire in an FPS game.

Other than that, performance and input lag is important. If I can gain some frames per second, that's good.

Any ideas?

/dev/random · 01-28-2014, 05:32 PM

well most of todays soundcards support all of that. 5.1 + openal pretty much do the trick. you wont gain any noticeable fps however. ( unless your sporting a pentium 2 ) todays cpis arent botheted too much by audio processing.

i myself have a soundblaster zs platnuim pro its old pci based but i have never needed anything else. even midi is supported for dosbox. depends on what you choose i guess. look on the alsa wiki for card support.

cascade9 · 01-30-2014, 09:32 AM

Asus xonar DX (PCIe) or D1 (PCI).

http://www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_...ters/Xonar_DX/
http://www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_...ters/Xonar_D1/
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...ix:Vendor-Asus

Good support, great card, no dealing with %*#&% creative who are really awful.

debwalker · 02-01-2014, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cascade9

Asus xonar DX (PCIe) or D1 (PCI).

http://www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_...ters/Xonar_DX/
http://www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_...ters/Xonar_D1/
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...ix:Vendor-Asus

Good support, great card, no dealing with %*#&% creative who are really awful.

Nice, thanks for the suggestions. :-)

Have you used one of these cards? The reviews look good, I'm just wondering how easy it makes placing footsteps/gunfire etc in games

cascade9 · 02-05-2014, 09:25 AM

I've used one a few times, but I've never played a FPS game with one so I have no idea about that, sorry.

debwalker · 02-18-2014, 12:05 AM

np, thanks for the input :-)