Wich PCI sound card .........?

[Redwine]

Hi all....

Please, can you tell wich PCI sound card are you using and if it works fine and with no sound bugs into SH3 ?

I was using an onboard SoundMax from my Asus motherboard, it works fine, no bugs, but it take too much CPU resourses.

Then i decide to back to my old Creative Sound Blaster 1024 Live! Gamer.
It works better because i have more FPS, but has some sound bugs, extremelly anoying sopunds, i was enforced to reduce hardware acelleration and change the default SB Live! Synthesizer by SB Live! SW Synthesizer into the settings.

The mnather is i understand SW means Soft Ware, then it not use sound board hardware acelleration and back to use my CPU resources.

Is there a good sound card to buy, PCI slot wich works fine with SH3, and if posible ready for DX 10 ?

Any help will be welcome....

Thanks in advance.


PD :

This is my card, i found this article on the web, aparently there was many people with problems with this card, due to it was an OEM and Creative DO NOT provide drivers for this card to end users....

Look how the autor tells "Drivers Hell"

http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/sblive/live_ct4830.shtml

I have another old one, wich do not use EAX (Enviromental Audio) instead it uses AVx (Aureal Vortex) wich in my opinion is so much better than EAX, but it is so old, only 324 voices.

I need to buy a new one but i need comments about the cards on stores and feedback from users confirming they works properly on SH3 .

Many thanks in advance....

[CWorth]

Well the one I am using is a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamers card and SH3 sounds awsome with it.Hooked up with a 5.1 speaker set and SH3 really comes to life.I personally have never had any problems with it.

http://us.creative.com/products/prod...4&product=4915

[Redwine]

Originally Posted by CWorth

Well the one I am using is a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamers card and SH3 sounds awsome with it.Hooked up with a 5.1 speaker set and SH3 really comes to life.I personally have never had any problems with it.

http://us.creative.com/products/prod...4&product=4915

Thanks a lot CWorth, i will take a look on it.

Let me to know... has it a dedicated headphone set connector ?

[DanCanovas]

im using a Creative SB Audigy 4 and it works fine.

[CWorth]

Originally Posted by Redwine

Thanks a lot CWorth, i will take a look on it.

Let me to know... has it a dedicated headphone set connector ?

Yes it does

[Redwine]

Originally Posted by DanCanovas

im using a Creative SB Audigy 4 and it works fine.

Many thanks for you data Dan canovas !

Originally Posted by CWorth

Yes it does

Why i ask.... my card has not, then i need to set it into 4 speakers and use the rear speekers to plug-in the headphones.

Previously when i was using my onboard SoundMax, there was not problem i link the motherboard conectors to my computer case conectors and i was able to have the headphones pluged-in at any time.

I need only to lower the volume and take the headphones.

I was looking you Audigy 2 ZS, looks fine, and has excellent comments, i was looking the manual graphics..... but i cant see any headphone connector at the board, it has only, if you made the trick to plug-in them into the rear speakers plugs.

But i lose my rear speakers in that way.

Can you teach me about this fact ?

[DanCanovas]

i forgot to add I use very expensive headphones too with that card. you cant beat the atmosphere on expensive headphones!

[Redwine]

Hi CWorth ....

May be the HeadPhone jack is the "Line Out 1 Jack", Point 4 in the following graphic ?

Do you use them, the central/front speakers to plug in the headphones ?

But you need to have the board set at 7.1 then ?

[3Jane]

Originally Posted by Redwine

Thanks a lot CWorth, i will take a look on it.

Let me to know... has it a dedicated headphone set connector ?

You can use the rear mini-jack (on the card) for headphones, but it's far more convenient with the Audigy 2 front drive bay that I have.

[Redwine]

Originally Posted by 3Jane

You can use the rear mini-jack (on the card) for headphones, but it's far more convenient with the Audigy 2 front drive bay that I have.

I note into the options in the card control panel, there is a checkbox for "automatically detect headphones", but i cant discover how it works.

I am making the same as before, i plug the headphones into the 2 rear speakers jack, but it has a problem.

The 3D positional audio is inverted, because it is the rear outlet, normally, when you look at a noisy thing, you have a higer volume than when you have this thing at your back..... but as the headphones are conected to the rear oulet, then a crew spech sound as more volume when it is at my back :rotfl: .

I cant believe the designers and builders dont put a dedicated jack for headphones in a expensive card.

I buyed an "Y" connector plug to put the headphones in parallel with the front speakers, but , when i do it, i lose my front right speaker, i cant understand....

[Slick Rick]

I have the Audigy 2 ZS sound card also....but I am running just your plain run of the mill creative speakers with sub woofer.....is there that much of a difference when going to a digital speaker?