Author Topic: Help! (Read 793 times)

Kaz · « **Reply #15 on:** March 08, 2005, 01:04:45 PM »

HIJACK!

So umm Soundblaster Live! 7.1 24bit....CPU usage comparable to the audigy or is it just a 24bit Live! 5.1?

p.s. How's the CPU usage among the different audigy models, value to platinum?

38ruk · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2005, 01:05:27 PM »

direct x is an automated install , to use driver cleaner , uninstall the display driver , then boot to safe mode and clean the nvidia driver section in DC ... reboot and reinstall the driver . hope this helps 38

http://www.drivercleaner.net

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx

Skuzzy · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2005, 01:48:12 PM »

Kaz, the Platinum's just have the external drive bay with all the neat-o connections. It uses the same sound card.

The SBLive! is a pig when it comes to CPU time, and Creative's drivers do not expose any hardware buffers at all in DirectSound. Simply put, it is not much better (if at all) than some dumb AC97 device.

The Audigy line is much better. The Audigy 2 is slightly better than the original Audigy in CPU usage. The Audigy 2 ZS is the same as the Audigy 2, except it has a little less noise and better dynamic headroom.
The difference between the Live! and Audigy line is night and day. When I swapped out my old SBLive! for an Audigy 2, I picked up 10 to 15 FPS in almost every game as the CPU is able to do so much more than before. Your results may vary......

Do not take this as a recommendation. In fact, I usually will recommend AMD users not to use any Creative products at all due to the number of issues I keep hearing about them.
Funny thing though, there seems to be no coorelation with the issues, except the motherboard has an AMD CPU.

Kaz · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2005, 02:01:24 PM »

Thanks for the great explanation Skuzzy! Wow, interesting comparison to the AC97

I won't be going AMD anytime soon (budget and such) so the audigy 2 is next on my upgrade list.

38ruk · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2005, 04:02:49 PM »

hey skuzzy , im running a audigy2 with a amd64 and nforce chipset without any issues what so ever FWIW 38

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #20 on:** March 09, 2005, 12:50:38 AM »

It's really a shame nvidia drops the built in sound support from nforce. It was excellent.

Schutt · « **Reply #21 on:** March 09, 2005, 03:17:17 AM »

I have nforce4 MB with amd athlon64 and audigy 2. no problem.

Since i saw how much those front connector pads go for i wish i had bought the platinum with the front connector. outch.