Mr Swine said: So PC gamers with Sound Cards won't get any benefit from games that start to use hardware accelerated sound? Click to expand...

This would act as the DSP for your audio pipeline.So instead of :Game engine > DSP in sound card > DAC on soundcard > amp on soundcard (or external) > headphones/speakersIt would be:Game engine via hardware accellerated AMD solution > additional DSP from soundcard (not neccessayr in most cases - in fact might want to turn off) > DAC on soundcard > amp on soundcard (or external) > headphones/speakersThe situation now a days is that we don't have much DSP stuff going on in soundcards anymore, at least not usefu stuff. Abotu the only worthwhile thing is virtual surround sound. Hardware accelerated effects went away with windows vistaSo this is a good thing, even though I only have an Nvidia solution right nowThis this solution your sound card will only be responsible for DAC and amp.