SOundcard problems

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 02:45am

My Integrated soundcard having died on me, I went out today and purcheased a soundblaster LIVE 5.1 soundcard from my machine.

Got it installed without a hitch, but now the sound is distorted. I have gone through the troubleshooting, I have switched speakers, made sure the old soundcard(a VIA AC'97 sound controller) was disabled, no hardware or software conflicts

Does anyone know what the fuck is going on?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-06-06 02:55am

Drivers?

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 02:56am

updated the drivers, still hasnt worked

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-06-06 06:57am

Mess with the "hardware acceleration" and "conversionquality of samplefrequency" sliders, at least that's what those two are called in win98, not sure about other OS. I believe they are in the multimedia option in your control panel.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 04:59pm

option does not exist

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-06-06 06:22pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:option does not exist

Then what's your OS? I will look it up for winXP now...

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 06:28pm

WIn xp pro

This is really starting to piss me off

Especially because I dont feel right if I dont have music on in my computer room.

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-06-06 06:29pm

Control panel
Sound/Audio devices
3rd tab "Audio"
1st option, "playing sound" goto "advanced"
2nd tab has the sliders.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-06-06 06:35pm

I had the same problem. It's Creative's stupid ass sound cards. I took it back and bought a Hercules. That solved the problem.

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-06-06 06:36pm

I've heard similar shit about the AC97 onboard sound thingies.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-06-06 07:30pm

Try going into the BIOS. Since your old soundcard is an onboard one, there could be an option in the BIOS to disable this.

My motherboard has an onboard Video/Audio (forget which) and there's an option to disable it (which it is).

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-06-06 10:26pm

SBLive is a pretty bad sound card, but it shouldn't be distorted too badly. If you used the official Creative Labs drivers, check the Creative mixer program to see if any 'effects' are being selected.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 10:36pm

I have a two spaker configuration, and for some reason there is less distortion when I optimize for a 5.1 system

I have tried all of the above, save getting into my BIOS and have uninstalled the old AC'97(which was dead)

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 10:46pm

Just tried to update drivers, and now it is saying that it doesnt detect my damn soundcard.

Seeing as Windows knows it is there...

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-06-06 10:57pm

phongn wrote:SBLive is a pretty bad sound card

It is? I have one and it seems fine (then again, it's hooked up to a pair of 10$ speakers, while upstairs is an SB16 hooked up to a pair of decent speakers with a subwoofer).

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-06-06 11:09pm

It's bad, particularly if you have older VIA-based motherboards. The S/N ratio is poor as its internal resampling method. If you have $10 speakers it hardly matters, though.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 11:12pm

well I do have a VIA based motherboard... god damn it

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2004-06-06 11:44pm

Creative's drivers are very picky about the soundcard installed. If one version of the driver package doesn't work, try another. It may be that the "full" install will let you go ahead where the "drivers only" install balks. I had a similar problems updating the drivers on my own Sound Blaster Live! before it died a few months ago.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-06 11:55pm

I have the full install, maybe I should uninstall and reinstall the drivers only?

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2004-06-07 12:18am

Alyrium Denryle wrote:I have the full install, maybe I should uninstall and reinstall the drivers only?

If the installer complains about the card to begin with, it simply won't work, in my own experience. You may want to see if another driver package will even get past the "no card detected" screen before committing to replacing the drivers. I tended to have the most luck with installing the "universal" package (LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe), but I don't know how well that would work for you.