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Posted: September 9th, 2001 Written by: Tuan "GT2k" Huynh Tech Specs
The Drivers      The Fortissimo II Control Panel is very similar to what we’ve become accustomed to for Cirrus Logic based sound cards, however the control panel for the Fortissimo II looks like an exact clone of the Game Theater XP control panel with the exception of 6 speakers showing up on the Main tab, and the option to enable/disable MP3 hardware acceleration in the Other tab. Driver performance was very good with no compatibility problems. The drivers were very stable without a single crash; very good on Hercules’s side considering they are version 1.0 drivers. Enough with the features, let’s move onto how it performs. Test Setup AMD Duron 800 Shuttle AK31 v2 (KT266) 256MB Crucial PC2100 ATI Radeon 32 DDR (beta 3224 Drivers) Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 40GB Hercules Fortissimo II Tekram DC-315U SCSI Controller Network Everywhere NC100 v2 AOpen CRW1232A Altec Lansing ADA890 (Analog and Digital) Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 Software Setup Winamp v2.76 (Soft EQ Off) (Various MP3’s, 128kbps and up) (Subjective tests) Power DVD 3.0 (Analog and Digital out test) (Ultimate DVD Platinum) Half Life: Counter Strike (Gaming subjective test, EAX) Unreal Tournament v436 (Gaming subjective test) Unreal Tournament v436 with EAX patch Reverend Thunder Time Demo1024x768 32bit color No Sound Sound Hardware 3D Sound |
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