Many took notice that the company that pioneered much of this gaming audio technology has released their latest masterpiece of audio engineering, the Titanium HD. Hardcore gamers use high quality soundcards and generally insist on X-Fi based products to cover all their bases with any games from the past, present or future. Neglecting one in favor of the other is a waste of a great game. Modern games are major high dollar cinematic productions with equal attention paid to audio and video. Whatever your personal view on hardware based gaming cards, great audio in your gaming has become a necessity instead of the luxury that it used to be. While it is true more games are using their own audio effect engines, it is also true that the OpenAL API is still in full development and can be used in new games to produce hardware based effects for upcoming titles. There has always been an ongoing debate regarding the present and future of hardware based effects in PC gaming. With the entry of other companies into the PC soundcards market and the redesign of the audio stack for the Vista OS, CL's position in the soundcard market has been uncertain to some. They pioneered many audio technologies related to gaming and for a very long time they ruled the PC soundcard market with no real opposition. Creative Labs has to be one of the most well known audio companies in the PC audio world.
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