12th October 2010, 9:42 AM
Yep, it's just that it sucks. An SBLive equivalent isn't exactly a great source of multi-channel sound. It's true that modern operating systems like Windows 7 can do software based sound (just needing some sort of speaker output and a decent processor), but hardware accelerated sound takes a lot of the burden from the processor, and that's a good thing to have.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)