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Title: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: humble on August 20, 2007, 08:01:17 AM

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...

Title: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: AKDogg on August 20, 2007, 08:07:10 AM

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..

Title: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: Skuzzy on August 20, 2007, 09:51:17 AM

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.

Title: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: humble on August 20, 2007, 05:58:46 PM

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.

Title: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: humble on August 20, 2007, 05:59:51 PM

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

Title: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: Skuzzy on August 21, 2007, 09:19:04 AM

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.

Title: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: humble on August 21, 2007, 01:24:58 PM

thanks will check that out

Title: Re: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: Sled on June 15, 2008, 04:37:34 PM

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


How would you go about changing the IRQ?

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

Title: Re: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: OOZ662 on June 15, 2008, 07:16:45 PM

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

Title: Re: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: Sled on June 15, 2008, 07:23:54 PM

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?

Title: Re: Do we have a VOX FAO anywhere...
Post by: OOZ662 on June 15, 2008, 08:07:50 PM

You wouldn't, as far as I know.

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