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    Catfish
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    Question 5.1 Surround sound - when will better support arive?

    I have what I deem a pretty good, if somewhat expensive system (specs below). Iam just wondering when better support for the center channel in most games will arrive...and also if there are updates for current games to take advantage of this seemingly useless center speaker. I know it works well with DVDs but I play games more than DVDs...can anybody throw some light on this question?

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    AMD Athlon 1.4GHz
    Gigabyte GA-7DXR
    512MB PC2100 DDRAM
    Hercules Prophet III
    Dabs 15.1" TFT DVI
    Hercules Gamer XP
    VideoLogic DigiTheatre DTS
    2 IBM Deskstar 60GXP 20GB
    Mirai 40-16-10 SCSI CDRW
    Pioneer 10X 40X SCSI DVD
    Cooler Master Aluminuium 201 case w/400w PSU
    Out with the old, in with the new (by 05/03 :

    * nVidia nForce2
    * AMD Athlon XP 2800+
    * 2x256MB PC2100 Crucial @ PC2700 <DONE>
    * Coolermaster ATC-201 <DONE>
    * ATi Radeon 9700 Pro / nVidia next gen
    * Logitech® Z-680
    * Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro
    * Hansol 17" LCD H711 Silver

    Thats the basics

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    Reef Shark
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    At the moment, no games will take advantage of your center channel. I don't know why, because with the live 5.1 there are a few that do. Directsound 3d takes advantage of the center channel, according to the demo in the sdk. Unreal tournament with hardware accelleration enabled, system shock 2, (and the thief series I would imagine), and america mc gee's alice all take advantage of the center channel of a sb live. Hercules is waiting for an api with true 5.1 channel support before they support it. Hopefully this isn't too far in the future

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