Basically you want to keep things are simple and optimized as possible when it comes to audio. The choppy sound might be a result of the hardware resampler that does a messy job. Also, check the option to give exclusive control to an app. If possible, disabling windows sounds also helps, or if you have an onboard chipset installed at the side of your SB Live, you could route the sound effects to it, and only use the SB Live for your purposes. But it's simpler to just turn off windows sounds, they affect bit-perfect playback, but that's another story :)
Just like the whole EQing deal, if you want to do it, try to do it closer to the hardware. For instance, you should never touch the horrible wmp EQ, it just plain out sucks. Using Creative EQ would be a much better option. I basically only rely on either the soundcard's EQ or if I use pro audio EQ versions, but that requires real audio players, not mixed players like wmp or itunes. On 22 Abr, 03:15, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahhh, kool as! Ill keep that one in mind...now that you mention it, it could > be the reason I was getting slightly choppy audio in oblivion until I > switched to software based sound rendering. > > THEfog > > On 22/04/2011 12:11 PM, "tribaljet" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ah, I see. The thing is that SB Live, and Audigy generation soundcards > do forceful resample of 44.1KHz to 48KHz, which isn't a very good > thing. It can mess up games and movies. Music can also be affected, > but if you use a resampler on your audio player, the hardware > resampler isn't used, so you're all good :) Oh, if you use Win Vista > or 7, you can just set the output format to 16-bit/48KHz and it will > bypass the hardware resampler as well, it would work out great. > > On 22 Abr, 03:08, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 16-Bit according to the driver lis... > > On 22/04/2011 12:01 PM, "tribaljet" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It really feels like the ja... > > latest OEM drivers, I think: > > http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.... > > > > > Please run Everest or something to get the exact model, would help a > > bit. > > > @Rafael: What de... > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
