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Here's my question:
If you are running Vista, shouldn't you already have a very good performing system. Why would you have to worry about finding a sound card optimized for gaming.
The thing is that all of the popular cards like Sound Blaster probably sound like ass. And I'm only saying probably, because I haven't really heard anything by Creative other than my old Audigy 2. But popular opinion on the web is fueling my initial assumptions.
I couldn't recommend anything other than professional sound cards. I run an Audiophile 192, which obviously makes no sense for gaming, but I heard the Revolution 7.1 is pretty good, although your game might run a bit slower.
I wonder how Vista's ASIO support is...
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As far as I've read, Vista completely rehauls how the OS deals with sound. Basically, instead of the sound card being able to be accessed directly through the drivers seperate of the OS, Vista itself must talk with the sound card. There used to be DirectSound, and now there isn't. Which basically makes having a sound card useless, because the CPU has to do the work anyway.
That being said, good motherboards these days have great on-board audio, and they have VERY little performance hit.
Vista ASIO support as far as I've heard sucks. But I don't really know TBH.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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