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All about Aureal's technology including the APIs (A3D 1.0, 2.0, 3.0), sound cards, chips (including the Vortex 2 and Motorola DSP), speakers and anything else you can think of with respect to Aureal's technology. For support questions check out our support FAQ.

36. VORTEX 2: What are the new features of the Vortex 2 over the Vortex 1? - Top

There are many new features of Vortex 2:
Larger HRTF filters for more accurate 3D positioning
Full A3D 2.0 wavetracing support
Support for more 2D and 3D sources in hardware
Support for A3D streams up to 48 kHz
576 voice wavetable engine (64 hw / 512 sw)
10 band stereo graphic equalizer
The Vortex 2 still has many of the same features that made the Vortex 1 chipset such a superb product:

Sound Blaster Pro™ compatibility
Top notch gameport compatibility
S/PDIF capabilities (on cards that implement it)
WDM ready
DirectSound and DirectSound 3D acceleration
DLS (Level 1) support
Microsoft WHQL certified drivers
Support for AC97 codecs
- Updated: November 30, 1999

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All about Aureal's technology including the APIs (A3D 1.0, 2.0, 3.0), sound cards, chips (including the Vortex 2 and Motorola DSP), speakers and anything else you can think of with respect to Aureal's technology. For support questions check out our support FAQ.

36. VORTEX 2: What are the new features of the Vortex 2 over the Vortex 1? - Top: There are many new features of Vortex 2:
Larger HRTF filters for more accurate 3D positioning
Full A3D 2.0 wavetracing support
Support for more 2D and 3D sources in hardware
Support for A3D streams up to 48 kHz
576 voice wavetable engine (64 hw / 512 sw)
10 band stereo graphic equalizer
The Vortex 2 still has many of the same features that made the Vortex 1 chipset such a superb product:

Sound Blaster Pro™ compatibility
Top notch gameport compatibility
S/PDIF capabilities (on cards that implement it)
WDM ready
DirectSound and DirectSound 3D acceleration
DLS (Level 1) support
Microsoft WHQL certified drivers
Support for AC97 codecs
- Updated: November 30, 1999