Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Unfortunately no one can experience Thief at its best with modern hardware.

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]1920x1080 graphics with bloom is nifty and all, but Thief was the poster child for the Aureal 3D sound cards. ICJ gushes over space giraffe being a game you play more by sound than sight, but I'd say Thief 1&2 using A3D were that even moreso. Yeah, the player would be sitting still in a shadow looking at some faint brick texture, but at the same time they'd be aurally working out a mental picture of the groaning zombie's patrol route. If you were screwing around with a picked lock and that NASA sound technology told you with pinpoint accuracy that a door was opening behind you and around the corner you'd jump 6 feet before scrambling to the best hiding spot. Now I play it with Audacity or Open AL and it just sounds like I'm playing in a tile bathroom. Fucking Creative and their shitty inferior EAX. I seriously looked into buying an old Vortex 2 sound card for this current PC, but sadly there are no drivers for it compatible with windows 7. THERE's a fan patch that needs to happen.[/quote]