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Third party Windows audio driver for onboard RealTek audio?
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Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a Thank you in advance. -- "I got worms! That's what we're going to call it. We're going to specialize in selling worm farms. You know like ant farms. What's the matter, a little tense about the flight?" --Lloyd Christmas (Dumb and Dumber movie) /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Third party Windows audio driver for onboard RealTek audio?
Ant wrote:
Hello. Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a Thank you in advance. Back on AC97 drivers, the RealTek driver was sometimes used as a replacement for other brands of drivers. If you force installed it, it gave you two channel sound (presumably as that was standardized enough to work). On HDAudio drivers, I've never heard or seen driver hacking going on. Better to face the problem, head on. Like, new sound card :-) If a new sound card also turns flaky on you, it could be a registry problem, or maybe you have bad RAM and everything in your computer suffers problems ? Paul |
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Third party Windows audio driver for onboard RealTek audio?
"Ant" wrote in message ... Hello. Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a Thank you in advance. I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) -- SC Tom |
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On 11/23/2011 8:06 AM PT, Paul typed:
Ant wrote: Hello. Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a Thank you in advance. Back on AC97 drivers, the RealTek driver was sometimes used as a replacement for other brands of drivers. If you force installed it, it gave you two channel sound (presumably as that was standardized enough to work). On HDAudio drivers, I've never heard or seen driver hacking going on. Better to face the problem, head on. Like, new sound card :-) If a new sound card also turns flaky on you, it could be a registry problem, or maybe you have bad RAM and everything in your computer suffers problems ? Memtest86 and its Plus versions did not find anything wrong with my RAM. Hmm, so only RealTek and OEM drivers for the HD Audio onboard. -- "... Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennae bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. 'Stop.' 'Go.' 'Walk here.' 'Drive there.' All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. 'Here's your change.' 'Paper or plastic?' 'Credit or debit?"' 'You want ketchup with that' I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know?" "Yeah... yeah I know. I don't want to be an ant either. Thanks for kinda, like, josteling me there... I've been kinda on zombie autopilot lately. I don't feel like an ant in my head, but I guess I probably look like one..." --Waking Life movie /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Third party Windows audio driver for onboard RealTek audio?
On 11/23/2011 9:49 AM PT, SC Tom typed:
Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. Interesting. I used to have an Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS sound card so I uninstalled its driver, turned off PC, removed its sound card and swap hardwares, rebooted, deleted left overs, installed the latest RealTek drivers, rebooted, tested fine, etc. However, once in a while, my computer would lock up hard with a stuck audio. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) Ew, an USB external sound device? Isn't that like slow and annoying? FYI, I only have 2.1 sound system. I do love bass though. I did notice these onboard have crappy bass from my subwoofer compared to my Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound card (old PCI -- don't have those slots). -- "As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron, orc or troll or beast spell-enslaved, ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits, or fled wailing back to hide in holes and dark lightless places far from hope." --The Return of the King (book) /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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"SC Tom" wrote in message ...
"Ant" wrote in message ... Hello. Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a Thank you in advance. I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) -- SC Tom I concur. Onboard sound has always been lacking even on my current 7.1 system. Could not get it to work properly and the driver config program didn't seem to offer much of anything (actually didn't seem to even have one). Put in my old AOpen Cobra 850 and viola 5.1 back with both mic and line inputs also working as expected (under Vista, no driver for 7 ) |
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"Ant" wrote in message ... On 11/23/2011 9:49 AM PT, SC Tom typed: Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. Interesting. I used to have an Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS sound card so I uninstalled its driver, turned off PC, removed its sound card and swap hardwares, rebooted, deleted left overs, installed the latest RealTek drivers, rebooted, tested fine, etc. However, once in a while, my computer would lock up hard with a stuck audio. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) Ew, an USB external sound device? Isn't that like slow and annoying? FYI, I only have 2.1 sound system. I do love bass though. I did notice these onboard have crappy bass from my subwoofer compared to my Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound card (old PCI -- don't have those slots). No , it's not slow or annoying. It produces sound before I can actually do anything on the system, so it's ready before Windows is, IYKWIM. I don't know what would make it annoying (?). I have a 4.1 Cambridge FPS2000 speaker system connected to it, and the bass can be heard easily outside if I crank it up that loud. At times, I have to compete with some of the cars driving by, and it has no problem doing that :-) The Zalman control panel allows a lot of different setups, up to and including 7.1 Digital Speaker Shifter (don't know what it is, but it sounds good). I'm happy with it, much happier than I was with the onboard sound through the same speaker system. -- SC Tom |
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On 11/23/2011 1:22 PM PT, SC Tom typed:
"Ant" wrote in message ... On 11/23/2011 9:49 AM PT, SC Tom typed: Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. Interesting. I used to have an Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS sound card so I uninstalled its driver, turned off PC, removed its sound card and swap hardwares, rebooted, deleted left overs, installed the latest RealTek drivers, rebooted, tested fine, etc. However, once in a while, my computer would lock up hard with a stuck audio. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) Ew, an USB external sound device? Isn't that like slow and annoying? FYI, I only have 2.1 sound system. I do love bass though. I did notice these onboard have crappy bass from my subwoofer compared to my Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound card (old PCI -- don't have those slots). No , it's not slow or annoying. It produces sound before I can actually do anything on the system, so it's ready before Windows is, IYKWIM. I don't know what would make it annoying (?). USB = slow. No latencies? I assume it still uses analog connections for speakers, headphones, etc.? Is it fully compatible in games and other OSes like Linux (do pass my older boxes for other OSes)? I have a 4.1 Cambridge FPS2000 speaker system connected to it, and the bass can be heard easily outside if I crank it up that loud. At times, I have to compete with some of the cars driving by, and it has no problem doing that :-) The Zalman control panel allows a lot of different setups, up to and including 7.1 Digital Speaker Shifter (don't know what it is, but it sounds good). I'm happy with it, much happier than I was with the onboard sound through the same speaker system. Interesting. Does it do EAX for older games? -- /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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On 11/23/2011 2:07 PM PT, Dominique typed:
Ew, an USB external sound device? Isn't that like slow and annoying? snip Many musicians and pro/semi-pro recording studios use USB sound devices, for example: http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=...=USBinterfaces Interesting. Wouldn't there be latencies and stuff? USB isn't that fast. -- "Oh bother", said Winnie the Pooh, "There's an ant on my foot..." /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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"Ant" wrote in message ... On 11/23/2011 1:22 PM PT, SC Tom typed: "Ant" wrote in message ... On 11/23/2011 9:49 AM PT, SC Tom typed: Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. Interesting. I used to have an Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS sound card so I uninstalled its driver, turned off PC, removed its sound card and swap hardwares, rebooted, deleted left overs, installed the latest RealTek drivers, rebooted, tested fine, etc. However, once in a while, my computer would lock up hard with a stuck audio. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) Ew, an USB external sound device? Isn't that like slow and annoying? FYI, I only have 2.1 sound system. I do love bass though. I did notice these onboard have crappy bass from my subwoofer compared to my Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound card (old PCI -- don't have those slots). No , it's not slow or annoying. It produces sound before I can actually do anything on the system, so it's ready before Windows is, IYKWIM. I don't know what would make it annoying (?). USB = slow. No latencies? I assume it still uses analog connections for speakers, headphones, etc.? Is it fully compatible in games and other OSes like Linux (do pass my older boxes for other OSes)? I have a 4.1 Cambridge FPS2000 speaker system connected to it, and the bass can be heard easily outside if I crank it up that loud. At times, I have to compete with some of the cars driving by, and it has no problem doing that :-) The Zalman control panel allows a lot of different setups, up to and including 7.1 Digital Speaker Shifter (don't know what it is, but it sounds good). I'm happy with it, much happier than I was with the onboard sound through the same speaker system. Interesting. Does it do EAX for older games? There is no latency that I can detect. I have a couple of tennis games, and the racquet hits and bounces are synced well. I've run games like Timeshock! (pinball game employing EAX), Far Cry, Bioshock, and the Call of Duty series through MW2 with no slowness, latency or un-syncs. I have it set up for analog output, but it also has an optical connection. My speaker system doesn't do optical, so I haven't tested it. -- SC Tom |
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"pjp" wrote in message ... "SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Ant" wrote in message ... Hello. Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a Thank you in advance. I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) -- SC Tom I concur. Onboard sound has always been lacking even on my current 7.1 system. Could not get it to work properly and the driver config program didn't seem to offer much of anything (actually didn't seem to even have one). Put in my old AOpen Cobra 850 and viola 5.1 back with both mic and line inputs also working as expected (under Vista, no driver for 7 ) Have you tried to install the Vista drivers on Win7 in compatibility mode? Always a chance it'll work then :-) No guarantees, but you never know. -- SC Tom |
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... On 11/23/2011 2:07 PM PT, Dominique typed: Ew, an USB external sound device? Isn't that like slow and annoying? snip Many musicians and pro/semi-pro recording studios use USB sound devices, for example: http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=...=USBinterfaces Interesting. Wouldn't there be latencies and stuff? USB isn't that fast. I don't have any USB output sound devices except midi keyboard and electronic drums which don't exibit latency but then it's not expected (or for my use required) with midi. I also have a quality USB studio mic that I love. Excellent for recording just about anything. That said, if I use the mic as input and give output to the speakers, there is a slight but noticable lag, e.g. sounds like a very short echo effect. I'm not sure what's involved in that but seems obvious there's at least some type of translation going on between the mic's usb input driver and converting it to analog before sending it to the sound card for output. -- "Oh bother", said Winnie the Pooh, "There's an ant on my foot..." /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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"pjp" wrote in message ... "Ant" wrote in message ... On 11/23/2011 2:07 PM PT, Dominique typed: Ew, an USB external sound device? Isn't that like slow and annoying? snip Many musicians and pro/semi-pro recording studios use USB sound devices, for example: http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=...=USBinterfaces Interesting. Wouldn't there be latencies and stuff? USB isn't that fast. I don't have any USB output sound devices except midi keyboard and electronic drums which don't exibit latency but then it's not expected (or for my use required) with midi. I also have a quality USB studio mic that I love. Excellent for recording just about anything. That said, if I use the mic as input and give output to the speakers, there is a slight but noticable lag, e.g. sounds like a very short echo effect. I'm not sure what's involved in that but seems obvious there's at least some type of translation going on between the mic's usb input driver and converting it to analog before sending it to the sound card for output. Do you think maybe that's caused by feedback rather than latency in the mic? That's about the same effect I got from my old (REALLY old) mic plugged into my amp (no USB involved there). -- SC Tom |
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Third party Windows audio driver for onboard RealTek audio?
On 23/11/2011 21:17, pjp wrote:
"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Ant" wrote in message ... Hello. Is there a such thing? I seem to be having rare and random (not easy to reproduce) problems with my current RealTek onboard audio even with old and newest/latest audio RealTek audio drivers in my updated Windows (32-bit XP Pro. SP3 and 64-bit 7 HPE). And yes, I tried using a Thank you in advance. I had the best luck uninstalling ALL audio drivers, rebooting into BIOS, and disabling the onboard audio. Save and boot. Then reboot into BIOS, re-enable the onboard audio, boot up, and install the latest RealTek/AC'97 drivers. You may have an install problem, pointing to HDDAUD.SYS or some such program. If so, search for it on you PC- it's probably already there. Once that's taken care of, the installation goes pretty smoothly. That said, I haven't stayed with onboard audio for very long. It has always been flaky for me, no matter who made the audio chip. It would be set up for 5.1 SS, and the next thing you know, it's now 2.0 or 2.1. Put it back to 5.1 and it would stay there for a while, but as soon as I opened a game or something that didn't support 5.1, Windows (or the audio driver setup) would put the speakers back to stereo and I would have to manually change them. I had a couple of Creative Labs external USB cards that worked well, but the newer ones, not so much. I finally bought a Zalman RM-ZSSC V2 USB card and am very happy with it. I get great surround sound out of it, and had no problems getting it to work right out of the box. http://www.epinions.com/review/Zalma...t_503714057860 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3B872/...N=B000E 3B872 I know that's probably not the solution you're looking for, but barring getting the MB audio drivers to work, that's the route I took :-) -- SC Tom I concur. Onboard sound has always been lacking even on my current 7.1 system. Could not get it to work properly and the driver config program didn't seem to offer much of anything (actually didn't seem to even have one). Put in my old AOpen Cobra 850 and viola 5.1 back with both mic and line inputs also working as expected (under Vista, no driver for 7 ) I've never understood why people need 7.1 sound systems. I certainly have only two years and not eitht. So a Stereo system with a decent amplifier and decent speakers is more than adequate for me as opposed to eight run of the mill or even inferior speakers. The sound will reverberate around a room and a good recording can create that atmosphere which surround sound systems claim to create but do so only in an artificial sounding way. What I hate most are the bass sounds that come thumping to you with no definition of pitch. The bane of modern feature films, surely! My blood boils when I hear such artificial sounds! -- choro |
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