AUDIOTRAK MAYA EX5 User’s Guide - 18 -
FAQS & TIPS
[Q] What is Sensaura?
The Sensaura Company owns 42 patents related to 3D positional audio. Sensaura’s algorithm is
well known in the sound and audio device industry dealing with 3D positional audio and
entertainment devices, and is supported by 70% of PC audio chips. Since 2003, Sensaura’s
algorithm supports real 5.1 channel game mode. In the case of i.e. ‘Diablo 2’, Sensaura brings
discrete channels to each speaker or woofer, i.e. the Center channel serves for playing dialogs,
and the other satellite channels support other surround sources. Our company bought
Sensaura's license right, and most products have been equipped with the Sensaura driver.
[Q] Someone said in the forum that 'CPU utilization is high with the Sensaura 3D sound
engine'. Is this true?
No, Sensaura 2003 3507 is specially revised to accelerate 3D sound performance of USB devices,
so CPU utilization is lower. For example, without the 3D accelerating engine, 2D engine or the
game’s own engine is used, utilizing as much as 20% of CPU power. If the Sensaura 3D engine is
used, only 10% of CPU is utilized.
*If not used in 3D acceleration mode, CPU utilization is the same as with other sound cards.
[Q] What is the merit of Sensaura 3D 2003?
Generally speaking this revision of Sensaura 3D is superior to DSP accelerated solutions because
Sensaura 3D 2003 is running in the Kernel level.
[Q] Can the Sensaura engine improve the sound of DVD or DivX titles?
Sensaura 3D’s positioning algorithms are only used while playing games which support
DirectSound3D/EAX. With other contents, Sensaura can only clone the front channels to rear (in
case of stereo contents).
[Q] Does the EX5 support AC3/DTS pass thru?
Yes, but you must use the Windows’ standard 'USB Audio' driver, not the ‘MAYA EX5 (Sensaura)’
driver.
[Q] There’s noise when playing a DVD or Audio CD title. What’s the problem?
Most likely it’s because your optical drive doesn’t have DMA mode enabled. Before enabling it,
you should make sure you have the latest chipset drivers installed. After installing Intel chipset
drivers, your motherboard should be automatically configured to use DMA. In case of VIA
chipsets, follow these instructions:
Go to Control panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and
there In the Advanced Settings of both the Primary and Secondary IDE channel switch the
transfer mode to 'DMA if available'.
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