Soundcard vs onboard / Framerates

[Drew]

eazy wrote:



ps: Joeflyer, my onboard sound is Realtek (AIC 97 with NVidia chipset), so yours might be onboard too.

Yes mine is too, so its quite likely.

Yes i use onboard sound **Shuffles off into the distance before im laughed at**



Post Edited ( 09-08-06 19:48 )

[Joeflyer]

The only problem I ever encountered with sound was before updating the drivers a month or 2 ago. Use to get alot of feedback in the
speakers or headset, but when I updated the drivers, the feedback went away. Don't know if that alone actually solved the problem but it
seems to work As far as FPS go, my system seems to be perking right along while running FS9,RC4, AS6 and FS Realtime. So, I don't
see the point in obtaining a new sound card just to squeeze out a few more frames...personally speaking of course.

**Doing the Drew Shuffle at the moment.....

[Dutch64]

eazy wrote:
I think I need a specialist here:

The good news: I found the "culprit" why there was no sound with the Audigy. I had disabled the onboard Firewire controller (IEEE 1394)
some time ago. When I reenabled it, suddenly there was my Audigy sound! I don't understand at all what Firewire has to do with it...

The bad news: now there's another problem. With the Audigy enabled there's a constant idle CPU usage of 60 to 80%. Once I disable the
sound card, CPU usage goes immediately down to 0%. In the process list there's nothing to see that causes the CPU load.

Sound card uses IRQ 19 as the only device, IEEE1394 and ATI X800 share IRQ 18 (that's why I had disabled Firewire).
I tried moving the sound card to the other PCI slot (I only have 2) where it was assigned IRQ 18 together with the other 2 devices, and
again no sound.

Anyone any ideas?


ps: Joeflyer, my onboard sound is Realtek (AIC 97 with NVidia chipset), so yours might be onboard too.

I don't get it, you should be able to see which process is taken up the cpu, right?
Do you have another slot free on your main board? Try moving the soundcard to the other slot if so, it might make a lot of difference

[eazy]

Dutch64 wrote:
I don't get it, ...

Don't get it either, Martin, but it's as I said: there's no process, nothing I can track. I disable the card in device manager and CPU load
is back to normal. All processes are the same as before.
I have 2 PCI slots and tried both. One of them didn't work at all (maybe because of IRQ but not sure).

Now I wanted to move back to onboard sound, removed Audigy, reenabled onboard in Bios, reinstalled Nvidia drivers and Windows
tells me I have no audio device.

This is making me sick! Will take the whole PC to the dealer tomorrow. Let's see what they know.

[Drew]

Can you not do a system restore back to before you started playing mr pc whizz??

[DBE]

eazy wrote:
Just bought an Audigy 4, disabled onboard sound, installed card, installed drivers, rebooted PC and... no sound at all - nada - nothing -
nix!!

You're not going to believe this.

Exactly the same thing happened to me yesterday!

Maybe I'll try your Firewire trick tonight before using the card as a frizbee...

[Ceemosp]

I do not have the slightest idea of where you two guys messed up on route......... I found installing soundcards to be the easiest part of any
upgrade part so far (in contrast to the old ide- soundblasert irq problems). I assume there to be some leftovers of the old onboard
sounddriver to be hidden on your machine / registry somewhere.

The correct sequence of installing a soundcard would be:

1. Deactivate the onboard sound in the bios
2. Uninstall all drivers realted to the soundchip
3. Run a registry scanner/cleaner (just to make sure...)
4. Install the new hardware.

The IRQ setting should not matter as they are normally assigned automatically depending on available bus resources.

In short.....without looking at a complete report from a program like Sandra etc I am shooting from the hip here

Greetz Carsten

[DBE]

Your basically right, Carsten.

Unless disabling the SATA autosearch on your mobo actually solves the problem....

And, I am absolutely gob-smacked: the difference is amazing! I'm now wondering if the purchase of my 6600GT was an overkill?

[Ceemosp]

DBE wrote:
Your basically right, Carsten.

Unless disabling the SATA autosearch on your mobo actually solves the problem....

Hence my very delicate remark towards sandra SATA functions do cause numerous problems......don't remind me PLEASE

Glad it worked out for you

Greetz Carsten