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> I have a question about two of the games in the Support List.  Both games 
> are by Origin:  Strike Commander and (I forgot the other).  Both are 
> listed as something like "SB and Aria same?"  Does this mean that they 
> support Aria natively, but when choosing Aria it sounds the same as SB?  

Sorry, no native Aria support, however, when I tweaked them they worked, but
sounded precisely the same as with regular SB. May Origin fry in hell!

> I ask about the native sound, because I just bought Origin's System Shock 
> and it does not directly support Aria.  I can get the music to work if I 
> either load MIDITSR2 with midi-loopback and choose GMIDI or choose Gravis 
> Ultrasound (??).  The Ultrasound option only works when my system is in a 
> certain mode (I don't remember if I needed to load volume.exe or sb201.exe 
> to get this mode).  The ultrasound option is preferred because it does 
> NOT need any memory consuming TSR's (MIDITSR2) loaded first.  Both the 
> GMIDI and GUS options sound the same anyways--kinda crappy in the intro 
> (regular sound blaster sounds better) and then pretty good in the game.
> Either way, I could not get soundFX to work (only in choosing sound 
> blaster for music and SoundFX).  I would think that IF Strike Commander had 
> native Aria as a sound option, that Origin would continue to support it.  
> Mind you, I have never seen Strike Commander or any other games from 
> Origin that supported native Aria.  By the way, it looks like System 
> Shock uses the 32-bit AIL drivers.  That was how I got GUS to work in 
> music only.  Replacing any other driver did not work. 

Hmmm... May Origin burn in hell!

> I hope I can get 
> native sound in Wing Commander III.  I decided recently not to buy any 
> new games unless they have native Aria sound. 

That's the spirit! Ever thought about writing games yourself?

> Maybe I need a new card 
> like SB-AWE32 or GUS-Max, but since I can't afford that now, I'll stick 
> with my Aria.

Don't buy a SB-AWE32 or a GUS-Max for gaming! Consider a MV Pro 3-D instead!

Daniel

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