Turtle Beach Santa Cruz in games

[Tokelil]

I know some of you guys have this sound card and I wanted to hear how it does in games.
Right now I use the built-in soundcard of my motherboard, (which sux when I play music on it 10 hours a day...) but I can buy a new Santa Cruz real cheap. (Less than 30$)
I have read alot good about the sound quality of the card which is a big priority, but since I game (and will probably game a lot the next couple of months with Doom3 and Half-life2 around the cornor) I want to make sure it fares well here too...

Anyone have any experience in games with the card? Maybe benchmarked it against build-in soundcard or an audigy/audigy2?

[Tokelil]

Well ordered it. (Only cards in the same pricerange here in DK is SB 5.1 Live soo...) Not that big an investment anyway, so Im looking forward to hear the sound quality!

[rorythedog]

Well ordered it. (Only cards in the same pricerange here in DK is SB 5.1 Live soo...) Not that big an investment anyway, so Im looking forward to hear the sound quality!


It's got to be better than SB Live! (that's what I have). SB sounds good, but the interface is abysmal.

[DanTheManPR]

I was going to get this card, but it seems that they're phasing it out, replacing it with their Catalina line. Is this card any good?

[Tokelil]

For the price I paid Im very satisfied. The drivers are getting a bit old though (not been updated for more than a year) so the support of it is lacking. On the other hand I only have problems in one game (Warhammer DoW) and others with other cards have the same problems.

[BALTY]

For the price I paid Im very satisfied. The drivers are getting a bit old though (not been updated for more than a year) so the support of it is lacking. On the other hand I only have problems in one game (Warhammer DoW) and others with other cards have the same problems.

You already know by now how your card sounds, and works with gaming. I'm just picking, I guess, when hearing a difference between -when I play the audio through the Turtle Beach card to my Reciever/amp/stereo, then play the same song from the CD from a "CD player" attached to my Receiver/amp/stereo. The CD player is much better quality. But I guess I should be happy that the CD player is of good quality.
Oh, If I didn't make it clear... The "same song" I mentioned above, is one originated from MP3 format via internet, then burned to CD. So the sound shouldn't have gotten better after burning. The original song just isn't as good through the card. (Or maybe the input of my receiver from the card?) :rolleyes: But for "deck music" on my cheap indoor/outdoor speakers, it really doesn't matter so much.
Oh, I hadn't tested the sound "difference" yet after installing QDCBASE.dll. I'll bet it's much better. My PC at work sounds much better with it installed! So I guess I'm trying to say...The soundcard might not be the difference!
Late! :gasmask:

[Roj]

You already know by now how your card sounds, and works with gaming. I'm just picking, I guess, when hearing a difference between -when I play the audio through the Turtle Beach card to my Reciever/amp/stereo, then play the same song from the CD from a "CD player" attached to my Receiver/amp/stereo. The CD player is much better quality.DACs, DACs, DACs and resampling algorithms versus a lack of them is my guess. :)