When information provided is accurate, I tend to stay out of the threads, but GenMata you are not providing accurate information.
1) CMedia has a long standing history of providing lousy sound card/chip drivers. I have two motherboards here with CMedia devices and I can lock them up with over 15 different games.
2) Onboard video chips use system RAM which is several times slower than dedicated video RAM. It also reduces the amount of system RAM available to applications. They also cannot act asynchrounously to the CPU, meaning when the CPU needs to access memroy the video chip has to wait, and vice-versa. Add on cards can operate 100% asynchronously to the CPU and vice-versa. This makes threading a good thing.
3) The biggest problems most people have with sound is forcing EAX on or Dolby on or using an incorrect speaker configuration or installing two sound devices on the same IRQ. Or trying to use a USB headset with a different configuration of speakers for the regular sound card. Or using a sound card which has horrible support for DirectSound.
4) AMD dual-core CPU's have a compatibility bug in them, we happen to hit. We are not the only application which runs into the issue.
5) Just because some WEB site reviewer says something does not make it the truth. Most of them are driven by ad revenue and by extension, they become a marketing arm for whoever is paying the bills.
Most people on this site speak from experience and have a background to back it up. I tend to ride this forum pretty hard as it is very important for people to get accurate information. It does have an impact on my livelihood.
You are, what I would call, a one-quote wonder. You come off as a person who is very shallow in knowledge, which makes you prone to making erroneous statements or drawing erroneous conclusions. I have an obligation to make sure this community is not lead to do things, which could cause problems with their computer systems.
You take the approach of making personal attacks and quoting other WEB sites for your support, while the people you are attacking have proven, time and time again, they know what they are talking about.
You, by your own admission, had to search our site to find out about problems with the sound card. If you had the experience most of the people here have, you would have already known the answer.
If you really want to get along here, leave the fanbois routines at the door and try showing a little respect to the community. It you continue to post up preposterous solutions which we all know are not anything remotely close to ideal, while denigrating others who have proven their expertise, you will find yourself not welcome here at all.
No one here, including me, knows everything, but you are at the bottom rung of the knowledge ladder, by your own doing.
