Author Topic: USB headset (Read 269 times)

Mister Fork · « **on:** May 16, 2006, 11:52:41 AM »

Hey all/skuzzy,

I have a USB headset (Plantronics DSP-300) that I wanted to give a whirl but I'm worried about performance of using USB. Since it has it's own sound processing via the USB port, will my game performance suffer?

I have an Audigy2ZS (pretty sweet) but my headset crapped out and I have this nice plantroics kicking around my office from using voice-to-text for Dragonsoft.

Anyone know what it will do to AH2 for gameplay? Stuttering? not worth the headaches?

Slash27 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 16, 2006, 12:09:30 PM »

I have the DSP 400 and works like a champ. Stands up to temper tantrums rather well too.

Shamus · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2006, 01:22:21 PM »

Have been using the DSP 500 for two years, no stutters, I dont know how it affects frame rates as I have never had a sound card on this system.

shamus

indy007 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2006, 03:15:50 PM »

Will it be slower? Depends. If it's USB 1.x then it can cost you a noticable framerate hit. This was the case with the first Creative Labs USB sound cards. Since those came out well after DSP-300s, I'd check Plantronics website... pretty sure the DSP-500s are USB 2.0. Wish I still had my Counter-Strike Edition set

If it's USB 2.0 you probably won't notice any framerate hit at all. Audiophiles will notice the difference in sound quality between the DSP headsets & an audigy 2 or better (I can't, my hearing isn't the best...).

In other words, it's very likely they're gonna work just fine.

guttboy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2006, 03:41:07 PM »

Using a Plantronics DSP500.....havent seen any problems but I dont particularly pay attention to frame rates etc.....the game runs just fine for me.