Particle brengt interessant nieuws voor de bezitters van een Athlon, K6-III of K6-2 processor. Volgens Vortex of Sound heeft Aureal nieuwe Vortex drivers in de maak met een voor 3DNow! geoptimaliseerde reverb engine:
Some good news about the 2048 drivers we can share. No, they are not out. But there is some cool news - Aureal's A3Dverb reverb engine in the Vortex 2 drivers has been optimized for AMD's 3DNow! instructions; this should mean relatively low CPU hit for systems with Athlon processors (among others). This would apply not just for EAX games, but A3D 3.0- and I3DL2-supporting games: anything that uses the reverb engine