[GeneralPsycho]

Yes it will affect your in game performances, i had same problem and when i installed a Creative X-Fi Xtreme card the game stop lagging everytime i had message or lot of surrounding sounds
The external card has its own controller and don't use less mainboard ressources.
Same for onboard video cards

I would have said the same thing. I have Creative Audigy SE2 with hack to make it X-Fi Xtreme. Works a charm, except you have to put a cooler on that chip :lol: