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Any recommended Soundcards?
Heya,
I know this is the wrong group but since there was some intelligent feedback going on here, figured this would be the best place to ask. I seem to be having some Sound issues since upgrading to XP. Sound loops, sometimes crackling sounds, etc. I am currently using Soundblaster, PCI 512. I have tried different slots on my Motherboard and upgraded to the latest drivers. Although, the latest drivers for XP on this card according to the Creative labs sight is dated 2001 ??!!?? So...any recommended sound cards? or is there a general site like the one I got from here, guru3d.com for current sound drivers? Thanks! |
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I've been happy with my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz,
Used with Win98SE and now Win XP. If you switch to a none Creative labs sound card, make sure you remove all Creative labs registry stuff. "Dai" wrote in message news:30kKa.15688$R73.2659@sccrnsc04... Heya, I know this is the wrong group but since there was some intelligent feedback going on here, figured this would be the best place to ask. I seem to be having some Sound issues since upgrading to XP. Sound loops, sometimes crackling sounds, etc. I am currently using Soundblaster, PCI 512. I have tried different slots on my Motherboard and upgraded to the latest drivers. Although, the latest drivers for XP on this card according to the Creative labs sight is dated 2001 ??!!?? So...any recommended sound cards? or is there a general site like the one I got from here, guru3d.com for current sound drivers? Thanks! |
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Dai wrote:
Heya, I know this is the wrong group but since there was some intelligent feedback going on here, figured this would be the best place to ask. I seem to be having some Sound issues since upgrading to XP. Sound loops, sometimes crackling sounds, etc. I am currently using Soundblaster, PCI 512. I have tried different slots on my Motherboard and upgraded to the latest drivers. Although, the latest drivers for XP on this card according to the Creative labs sight is dated 2001 ??!!?? So...any recommended sound cards? or is there a general site like the one I got from here, guru3d.com for current sound drivers? Most likely not the soundcard but an irq-sharing issue - once the sb-card is on its own irq the problem goes away! XP is prone to this problem coz XP is junkware... :-) |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:09:11 -0700
The Laughing Gnome wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:47:04 +0200, "Steven" wrote: Most likely not the soundcard but an irq-sharing issue - once the sb-card is on its own irq the problem goes away! XP is prone to this problem coz XP is junkware... :-) Huh? With APIC selected in bios XP gives you 23 IRQ's. XP handles IRQ addressing just fine. What OS do you recommend we run our games on? There are many motherboards that have two or more slots tied together so that both share the same interrupt. The operating system cannot override this. As for XP handling IRQ addressing just fine, there is a very special place in Hell reserved for whoever was responsible for implementing Plug and Pray without manual overrides. You're basically forced to trust an Artificial Stupidity, which is always an unwise course of action. -- HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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The Laughing Gnome wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:47:04 +0200, "Steven" wrote: Most likely not the soundcard but an irq-sharing issue - once the sb-card is on its own irq the problem goes away! XP is prone to this problem coz XP is junkware... :-) Huh? With APIC selected in bios XP gives you 23 IRQ's. XP handles IRQ addressing just fine. What OS do you recommend we run our games on? Those additional irqs are based on irq-sharing(!) - these are not physically(hardware) irqs. That's, for one, why XP is troubled this much and slooow as well. Technically that irq thingy is ok for slower devices but share same irq between video and audio and you'll see what I mean. I wonder why the industry is not going to get something decent on their drawing-table. 64 true (hardware) irqs would be sufficient for the near future - however, the cpus would need to be altered as well to handle 64 irqs - far east too dumb to get it going? Instead the whole industry still sticks to Dos limitations! - our hardware industry is constantly making a fool of us users by not developing further instead sticking to far-outdated technics. |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:01:39 +0000, Whilst playing Smegball with the
scutters "J.Clarke" wrote : On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:09:11 -0700 The Laughing Gnome wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:47:04 +0200, "Steven" wrote: Most likely not the soundcard but an irq-sharing issue - once the sb-card is on its own irq the problem goes away! XP is prone to this problem coz XP is junkware... :-) Huh? With APIC selected in bios XP gives you 23 IRQ's. XP handles IRQ addressing just fine. What OS do you recommend we run our games on? There are many motherboards that have two or more slots tied together so that both share the same interrupt. The operating system cannot override this. As for XP handling IRQ addressing just fine, there is a very special place in Hell reserved for whoever was responsible for implementing Plug and Pray without manual overrides. You're basically forced to trust an Artificial Stupidity, which is always an unwise course of action. In win95b/win98 and ME you can revert to none ACPI usage of IRQs quite easily like this, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/acpi.html and then have more control of IRQ assigning. Don't know for XP so be a,"Guinea Pig"? Personally I don't have problems with IRQ sharing.This is not MS's fault usually but lazy or inept hardware makers who don't make their devices correctly. Also a common mistake as in the posts is to trust Plug in and Praysic but this can be defeated and still be enabled as per, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/drivers.html Note: Mother boards that allow the reservation of IRQs for specific PCI slots are overridden by ACPI in the O/S if it's enabled. HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html Free songs download, http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/17/sheppard.html |
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"Dai" wrote in message news:30kKa.15688$R73.2659@sccrnsc04... Heya, I know this is the wrong group but since there was some intelligent feedback going on here, figured this would be the best place to ask. I seem to be having some Sound issues since upgrading to XP. Sound loops, sometimes crackling sounds, etc. [snip] To be honest, this seems to be very specific to particular hardware configurations. I had all sorts of crackling problems with an Audigy 1 on an AMD / VIA system (and it seems to be these systems that experience these issues most often), but an Audigy 2 is now running flawlessly on the same system. You here such conflicting reports from different users that I hesitate to recommend it any more strongly than to say that it works for me -- and is a damn fine piece of kit for the money, especially with the breakout box that comes with the Platinum eX. jd |
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 02:16:01 +0100, Whilst playing Smegball with the
scutters "Jeremy Dimmick" wrote : "Dai" wrote in message news:30kKa.15688$R73.2659@sccrnsc04... Heya, I know this is the wrong group but since there was some intelligent feedback going on here, figured this would be the best place to ask. I seem to be having some Sound issues since upgrading to XP. Sound loops, sometimes crackling sounds, etc. [snip] To be honest, this seems to be very specific to particular hardware configurations. I had all sorts of crackling problems with an Audigy 1 on an AMD / VIA system (and it seems to be these systems that experience these issues most often), but an Audigy 2 is now running flawlessly on the same system. You here such conflicting reports from different users that I hesitate to recommend it any more strongly than to say that it works for me -- and is a damn fine piece of kit for the money, especially with the breakout box that comes with the Platinum eX. jd What I can say is that the cheap budget Creative Labs PCI 128 cards have worked with many boards I've installed e.g Via/SiS/Intel and Ali chip sets and I know consider a little gem of a card especially for the price. Although not a flashy card comparing it side by side with a 5.1 digital I still think it has a richer and brighter sound than the 5.1.I'm a little dismayed with this as I bought the 5.1 as an,"Upgrade" because they have dropped in price but I have to say I'm not that impressed.I don't use a 5.1 sound system preferring to line-out to my Hi-Fi when I want a bigger sound so I have no need of it at the moment. The drivers have never given me a problem on any chip set and are nice and simple and robust and don't add any silly bootup entries like the 5.1 and I suspect the Audigy cards may? Also I found webupdated drivers that gave it hardware Bass And Treble and some newer software that Creative didn't put on the install Cd that gives me a wave recorder that can record from all sources like,"Total Recorder" but better IMHO. I've gone back to the PCI 128 and removed the 5.1 and may just sell it on.I'm sure also even with my knowledge that it may have caused some delays in online gaming which I couldn't fix but this may just be me not being happy with it :/ All-in all I think creative,"Dropped-the-ball" with the 5.1s and drivers.I hope the audigy cards don't suffer from this :/ Still miss my old AWE 64grin. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html Free songs download, http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/17/sheppard.html |
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