Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...

[humble]

I'm having ongoing issues with poor vox quality. Reported as a "scatchy" sound etc thats often close to useless. I have a ASUS P5K-E board (using onboard sound) and have a boom mike and a midrange logitech cam witha built in mic. When I use speech recigntion (sp?) or voice playback on box my voice sounds fine....but is horrible in AH. Tips on trouple shooting greatly appreciated...

[AKDogg]

Onboard sound is your problem.  When in the game, your sound card is trying to produce the sounds for the game and your vox.  Most Onboard sound cards have a hard time trying to do both at sametime.  Plus the sound quality usually is really bad with onboard compared to  Sound card like SB Audigy 2zs, etc..

[Skuzzy]

Is this under Vista?  Microsfot did away with DirectSound in Vista (they could not get DRM to work under it) and now they emulate the DirectSound API by routing it to the standard Windows sound system.

It would not surprise me if there were some quality issues with VOX under Vista.  Sound drivers for Vista are still in a very unstable state.

[humble]

I'm flying AH under XP....as you have said many times the overall driver/efficency/gatesdom forces for evil just dont add up to a winning combination.

[humble]

I've got a bunch of SC's around, none stellar...best is a turtlebeach santacruz...

[Skuzzy]

If you are under XP, my best gues is the sound card is sharing a hardware IRQ with another high data usage device, such as the network or video cards.

Or there is more than one sound driver installed.

[humble]

thanks will check that out

[Sled]

Old thread............ but..


How would you go about changing the IRQ?

How do you know which one to put the Sound card on?

[OOZ662]

It doesn't matter which IRQ it uses. If two are conflicting, move the card fighting with it to a different slot.

[Sled]

But if you are using on board sound, and an AGP Video card, you can't physically move them. So how would you resolve a shared IRQ in that situation?

[OOZ662]

You wouldn't, as far as I know.

You may be able to work in your BIOS to change them, however.