Weird glitch with onboard audio

[SteamWake]

I have an ASUS P5QL/EPU motherboard which has a built in soundboard.

The soundboard utilizes HD ADeck drivers. These are 'generic' drivers but are provided by ASUS as the defacto set of drivers. Yes I have the latest version installed. Yes I have run DXDiag and found no problems (except that it reports the card does not support hardware buffering).

The hardware appears to work just fine with all games but with one odd exception.

Railworks....

Every sound works in that game except the engine sound. Kinda sucky driving a big powerfull Diesel engine to only hear the compressor puttering away.

I plug in the USB headset and can hear the engine in them so its being processed. But I hate wearing headsets.

I installed an old SB Audigy2 soundcard and its drivers before and it would play the engine sounds. I had to recently re-install the OS and all the drivers but the missing engine sounds is still there.

I have tried setting sampling rates, hardware accelleration, enabling/disabling about every dang thing I can think of yet no engine sounds. I checked the ADeck settings and it is set correctly for your typical 2 'desktop' speakers.

I have scoured the interwebs and came up empty on the topic except for some of my own posts here and there with no resolutions.

Weird huh?

ps; I see that Railworks is due to be upgraded tommorow. I'll just wait and see if that doesent fix it.

[Gerald]

if you take down the integrated audio files such as SoundMAX, or Realtek

http://soundmax.software.informer.com/


http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/...&GetDown=false

[Arclight]

Nope, it's this one: VIA VT1708S (8 -Channel High-Definition Audio CODEC)


SW, you sure you got the right drivers?
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...specifications

Just go to download, pick yer OS and grab it under 'audio'.

[SteamWake]

Well the ASUS website provides drivers which one would assume were the proper drivers. They are the proper drivers but not the latest.

To get the latest you have to go to ATI's Website. I never realized you could just click on the icon in the 'audio deck' and get taken to the chipsets manufactures site. Got version 8.x.x there (had 6.x.x) and it solved the problem

[Arclight]

There's something I'm missing here but I guess it doesn't matter.

Glad you got it sorted.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Arclight

There's something I'm missing here but I guess it doesn't matter.

Glad you got it sorted.

Probably because I said ATI when I meant VIA (whom are the producers of the chip) its VIA HD ADeck

Anyhow the drivers on the motherboard mfgrs website are dated so you have to go to the soundchip mfgrs website to get the most recent ones. Even though they tell you there to get the ones from the mobo's mfgr

[Arclight]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Probably because I said ATI when I meant VIA (whom are the producers of the chip) its VIA HD ADeck

That would be it.

Anyhow the drivers on the motherboard mfgrs website are dated so you have to go to the soundchip mfgrs website to get the most recent ones. Even though they tell you there to get the ones from the mobo's mfgr

Running in circles... wait, they aren't government-run companies, are they?