Great sounds, some very similar to the game. I could hear the other plane as a low rumble quite distinctive from the pilots plane.
Thanks for sharing.

Sounds like the "Check Flight Gustav" CD

Read the procedures! And then people talk about about CEM where "C" is for "Complex"...

Speaking of ingame EM IL2 1946 was realistic at something like 30%, Clod realism is higher but not so much... 50%? Not really complex...

Anyway it's good to know that ingame sounds are really close! Good job there!!!

I'd love to have "full real" CEM with all pumps and switches as a option.

Great video.

The biggest difference I heard is that in-game the wind noise is more attributed to prop speed than it is to airspeed.

The engine sounds in that clip seem to be much more predominant than the wind noise at lower speeds.

That's probably part of my problem, i expect to hear low-reving ,high torque engine sounds alone but add in the high pitched whine of a super charger and wind noise, and it's totally different .. although probably historically accurate?????

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Hello

I'd recommend getting a true soundcard with real hardware acceleration.

- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
or
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
should get you started.

Since you want audio for gaming and not for music I'd recommend getting a speaker system that outputs some bass.
Logitech Z-5500 (5.1) (4 satellites + 1 center, 1 subwoofer)
Logitech Z-906 (5.1)
Edifier S530 Gaming (2.1) (2 satellites, 1 subwoofer)
Edifier S550 (5.1)
Edifier S730D (2.1)

The edifiers offer the cleaner sound and are very much capable of playing music brilliantly.


With that you'll get a great audio system for a fair price. Beyond that is perfectionism and especially with an edifier system you'll hardly notice the difference.

With 5.1 systems the placement is MUCH more important. Don't think you can just buy a 5.1 system and place the speakers anywhere. The setting up process is tiresome but often worth it. 2.1 is easier. If you prefer surround headphones for "precise operations" you could buy a 2.1 system and a great headset.



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The video is just awesome. Thanks for the find.

I hope we'll still see some sound improvements such as:
- Planes nearby shouldn't be audible
- A massive difference between canope open and closed
- Better wind sounds related to plane speed and airflow

Defo a great soundtrack,kinda made me feel like the Dude from Big Lebowski when he's listening to bowling matches on his Walkman lol

The sound would probably be very similar to the Emil,but there are many things that affect the noise of a plane (apart for the most obvious ones,there's stuff like aerodynamic noise,propeller noise,structural resonance etc..). Fortunately there are airworthy Emils,so I don't think it would be hard to get hold of their recordings :-)

Without wanting to derail the thread: May I ask why?
Their drivers have improved and the driver issues after the release of Vista and W7 were unavoidable due to EAX, a technology no other card had but which was disabled due to how DirectX 9 and 10 work.
Only soundcards with standard features were able to avoid the mess - creative with EAX however could not. You could research the topic if you like but it's a thing of the past. It was NOT a fault of creative labs and it was a mess that was almost impossible to solve.

That said I run about a good dozen of these cards in two of my own and computers of friends and relatives and NONE of them has issues or procudes them. The alternatives are okay as well but much more expensive. For a gamer the Creative cards are great, fully hardware accelerated thus boosting the performance etc.

The ASUS card you mention, on the other hand,
-costs at least twice as much
-doesn't even support EAX / EFX / OpenAL only generic modes
-you could better use that money and invest it into the speakers and get the Edifiers

Overtall that will give you better sound quality (you won't hear the quality of the ASUS over the Creatives if you don't have some 1k+ headphones, speakers attached) and better compatibility with games due to OpenAL EAX EFX etc. I don't see a reason to dump the added money.

Oh and by the way. ASUS cards are also geared towards gamers and they also use technology that's way not for the audiophile. I quote the specs of the Xonar here:
So clearly sound changing technology. The same technology that Creative offers and that let's the audiophiles say that Creative cards are changing the sound and thus are for gamers blablabla. I can't see a difference honestly but obviously the buyer has to decide if he want's to pay that additional price.