The driver and user interface deserves a clear mention. Such users usually have to depend on external headphone amplifiers. Creative also boasts of an inbuilt 600 Ohm headphone amplifier, which should interest those with high-end headphones. The Recon3D is then a very versatile and scalable sound card that isn’t just made for gaming. There’s also 16 and 24-bit recording capability for sample rates ranging from 8 to 96kHz. The sound card itself has a 24-bit DAC that supports audio sample rates upto 96kHz. These include two RCA stereo jacks, a headphone jack and a microphone in jack. There are more connects found on the forward dock for those who want easy access. The second is an audio input for those who might want to connect other devices to the PC. The interesting bit is the two optical ports, one for output, which is standard on most audio cards on discrete solutions as well as motherboards. The rear of the card has the usual set of analog 3.5mm audio ports - three for the surround sound speaker set-up, one for headphones, a line-in port that doubles up as a microphone-in jack. It fits into a PCIe x1 slot and it’ll fit fine on even a PCIe x4 or x16 slot, if you don’t have an x1 slot free. The sound card is at the heart of the entire set-up. The Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion comes with, of course, the card, a PC dock, called the Sound Blaster I/O drive that sits in one of the 5.25-inch slots, where your DVD drives usually go and there’s also a bundled microphone. The usual 3.5mm audio connects, including two optical ports The external packaging and the contents are also designed to keep the gamers happy. ![]() Fatal1ty, a well known professional gamer has his branding on a number of other gaming accessories and components, spanning across several brands. The one we’re reviewing, of course, is Fatal1ty branded to attract gamers. There are two other similar cards, priced for users with different budgets. The Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion is the absolute top-of-the-line sound cards from Creative. Gamers and audiophiles are the two groups of users who need a lot more than just the basic audio performance that we’ve all come to expect from audio solution onboard motherboards. Integrated solutions improved for a while, but it’s not uncommon to see two or three-year old audio chips being used in most PCs. Creative is one of the oldest companies known to manufacture sound solutions for all kinds of users, those into music, movies as well as gaming. They were large, sophisticated pieces of hardware. Update: The work has been queued into the sound staging area for the upcoming Linux 4.19 kernel.Back in the day, when audio solutions weren’t integrated into motherboards, people had to go out and buy their own sound cards. A decade ago following issues they open-sourced their Sound Blaster X-Fi driver, which once offered a glimmer of hope, but generally their direct open-source/Linux contributions tend to be incredibly rare. The patches unfortunately are a bit late for landing in Linux 4.19, but we'll see if they happen to still get pulled in quickly to the sound tree.Ĭreative sound hardware has generally been quite problematic over the years. The 11 patches add 276 lines of code but is mostly adapting existing driver support code that was previously written for the Recon3Di in the ca0132 HDA driver. (The Creative Recon3Di was already supported by Linux and there appears to be other Recon3D sound cards with different device IDs, which haven't yet been added as quirks to the driver.) But now thanks to an independent contributor to the ALSA drivers, Connor McAdams, proper Recon3D support appears long at last - well, at least for the sound cards having the 0x0013 device ID. Many users having no luck getting the Recon3D sound card working under Linux while others have seen varying degrees of success with different workarounds. The Sound Blaster Recon3D powered by Creative's SoundCore3D quad-core audio processor was popular years ago with gamers/enthusiasts and has tended to always be problematic under Linux, similar to many other Creative sound cards over the past two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Creative Labs launched the Recon3D sound card the better part of a decade ago and finally patches have emerged providing for better Linux driver support.
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