Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional

Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional was released yesterday in Japan only, just got mine today(slow delivery :< )
It's available only via creatives jp website and in limited numbers too.

Tested it out and the audio clarity is really good compared to my old asus xonar d2x.
It also comes with a new feature called "scout mode" which basically enhances the sound of footsteps at a distance so you can hear it more clearly!

Anyhow enjoy the pic and lets hope tomshardware will do a review when they get a copy

Can i get some screens of the control panel? I am curious what kind of upmix(Like how X-fi and Audigy had CMMS 3D) options it has now?

Thanks!

Was not a huge fan of true studio surround, but it looks to be the future for creative(only an issue for 2 channel audio on multi-channel speakers anyway).

Hope to see some reviews on this card in the future as well.

Have you tried scout mode?

Very good.

It did just come out, i see it as coming soon to EU. will be a while for Canada i think.

I think i will use this x-fi until it dies or becomes unusable to to some new card slots(but that card looks very cool with almost everything integrated. should be able to make it low profile with out much troubles)....hell i still have my SB live! working...sound cards just don't die.

Agreed. Oh and BF3 is not the game to test audio cards their software audio solutions is horrible!
By default it uses 2 cores from a 4 core CPU while taxing each core 50% and only spits out 15 sounds at any given time.
BF2 actually used the soundcard and supported up to 128 sounds!
WTF! happened!

I can understand that you might have felt attacked by my post but that was not the intention I assure you.
So lets not get into a e-penis sausage fight over this now shall we ladies and gentlemen?

Tho I have to state that my information comes directly from within the games "initfs_Win32"scripts file and not based on taskmanager readings or a hunch.
But yeah I was kinda wrong its the maximum load percentage the thread can use, so excuse me for that mistake.
Would still have preferred a good oldie OpenAL based solution over this anyday. Oh well.

Back to topic:
I was really looking forward for these cards some time ago and I'm very disappointed how they ended up, mostly because of the lack of native ASIO support and the lackluster SNR ratio.
For an average gamer clearly not an issue and you seem to be pleased by the product and thats more than fine.
But for a guy like me thats into gaming and digital audio production, well guess I have to wait and see if Auzentech gets a license for the chip and manages to make a card out of it for people like me as well!
Maybe next year Santa?

Umm, no. BF3, while entirely software, still supports a heck of a lot more then 15 audio voices at once.

Have you tested the included mic + CrystalVoice? It's supposed to let you use a mic with speakers with no echo right? That would be a selling point for me if that "beamforming" mic actually worked decently.

Use any high impedance headphones with the dedicated headphone port? I'd like this card just for the dedicated heaphone port so that I could have my 5.1 speakers and headphones both plugged in at the same time.

its been days and no reply at all..........

If you read up on the page, they said that scout mode does not seem to do anything yet. As such. It will not help you.

If your speakers/receiver let you increase the set distance of the rear speakers, they will be told to play louder since they are farther away from you(in most sound card control panels). Some setups just have a rear volume control(on the speakers them self).

Windows also lets you increase the rear speaker volume, but when you hit max, then they are all max(so you do not have louder back speakers).

Crank it up

I would not call it any better or worse then other companies. I mean creative DID take away features of the Audigy 2zs(CMSS Stereo surround), but Realtek took away the ability to map ANY plug to anything as well with newer drivers.

Daniel K drivers for Audigy make a still good card work fine under new operating systems.

Creative did offer basic features under Vista/7

Hauppauge(Wintv PVR 250) just said no 64 bit support for your card, have a nice day.
Yamaha never released drivers for the DS-XG sound card for anything after windows 98(was a fairly good card to be honest).

I would not call them better or worse then others, some of those cards are old.

Now the Daniel K(over his modded and better drivers) fight they had, that was just wrong.

Apparently Battlefield 3 can be set to OpenAL by altering some config file....would that mean it would use my x-fi (and maybe more than 15 sounds)?

So far i've seen no reason to replace my x-fi since most new games seem to not use any hardware acceleration features anyway, and instead going the software route =\

Battlefield 3 can be set to OpenAL by altering some config file.....sure would like to know how to do this !!!!!!!!!!!

I have seen no listings for it(and it did look, most say it is just software and that is all). You may get a faster answer on the EA forums to be honest.

Sounds like a internet problem, does it happen on all servers?

Any other games disconnect on you?

I have seen Punkbuster do many things.

I see people cheating in games with it, no kick. Even have friends who i have physically seen do this.

I see people get kicked and even banned without cheating(No joke, had 2 system fully hardware banned, even balance says they are gods and to go buy a new systems as they will NEVER un-ban and PB can not false ban. This was many years back too). I read many reports that if your router blocks some of the pb communication, they will ban over it too(now days, its just a kick and at least you get a message about it).

Even had it crash computers in the past.

did you try to update sound card driver in windows driver manager to 20/2/2020, also download the latest software from creative website, there was aprofound improvment in the software and driver update.

......Creatives drivers have changed big time in the past with all there X-Fi cards they have came out with Dolby Digital live DTS pack and the quality of sound have improved big time..I think bringing out the recon 3d cards will not make much of a difference.