Playing Games - Creative Sound Blaster ZxR User Manual

Using Your Sound Blaster ZxR
Sound Blaster ZxR delivers the ultimate audio playback solution for the PC. Studio-grade components,
which include external digital-to-analog converters (DACs) that deliver 127dB signal-to-noise ratio
(SNR), sockets for swappable OP-Amps, a high-end 80mW into 600 ohm headphone amplifier and
197kHz pass through, deliver phenomenal audio quality.
Your Sound Blaster ZxR works seamlessly with many external devices to perform different tasks. To
learn more about these tasks and how to connect additional devices, consult the following sections:

Playing Games

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Watching DVDs
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Playing / Recording Music
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Creating Music
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Online Chatting
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Note
Actual products may differ slightly from those shown in this chapter.
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The cables shown in this chapter may be bundled with your peripheral or are available separately
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from www.creative.com.
For more information on the Creative peripherals mentioned in this chapter, visit
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www.creative.com.
Playing Games
Your Sound Blaster ZxR is specially designed to enhance audio in games using Creative's cutting edge
audio technologies. Playing games will be more exhilarating than ever before!
To learn more about the following audio technologies, visit www.soundblaster.com.
CrystalVoice
In gaming today, if you're not communicating, you're not winning. Experience the crystal-clear
communication with your teammates with the CrystalVoice suite of technologies that removes echoes,
ambient noises, and picks up your voice even accurately even when you move around the room.
EAX ADVANCED HD
Make your games come alive with EAX ® ADVANCED HD™ and immerse yourself in worlds that their
creators envisioned!
Hear multiple audio effects being played simultaneously, and precise environment settings applied to
them to create a life-like environment and heighten the sense of realism.
Each effect is also accurately positioned in its 3D environment, allowing you to tell where it is coming
from relative to your location, and you will be able to discern where your teammates and enemies are
using only these audio cues.
EAX ADVANCED HD is a weapon that will give you the competitive edge, especially in multiplayer
games.
Creative ALchemy
Creative ALchemy is a powerful tool that restores the audio for a DirectSound ® 3D game running on
Windows 7 or Windows 8 to its former glory - in full surround sound with hardware accelerated audio
mixing, sampling rate conversion and EAX effects.
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