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Offline lulu

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Sound card and AH speed
« on: February 27, 2013, 10:06:03 AM »
If i installed a sound card, then does AH speed (fps) take some increment?


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Offline Bizman

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Re: Sound card and AH speed
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2013, 10:36:00 AM »
Not significantly in a new powerful computer. Plus a cheap sound card doesn't do anything better than a built in.
Quote from: BaldEagl, applies to myself, too
I've got an older system by today's standards that still runs the game well by my standards.

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Re: Sound card and AH speed
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2013, 11:07:28 AM »
Lot of dependencies on that question.

It would only have a chance to make a difference if your computers performance is CPU limited, not graphic card limited.  A situation where the video card is waiting on the CPU.

Even a cheap sound card has advantages over a onboard sound chip, IF the cheap sound card has onboard hardware buffers exposed to DirectSound (the sound component to DirectX).  With onboard hardware buffers, the sound chip is free to run in parallel with the CPU, as opposed to stopping the CPU each time it needs to fetch data from system RAM.
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Offline lulu

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Re: Sound card and AH speed
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2013, 07:14:11 AM »
TY All

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