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Old 10-22-2006   #1 (permalink)
gvii


 
 

Sound hardware acceleration...

I was curious if there was a way in Vista to shut off hardware acceleration
for the sound card. I'm getting sound stuttering in certain games that I
normally corrected by shutting off acceleration, but I can't find a setting
to do it.

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Old 10-22-2006   #2 (permalink)
gvii


 
 

RE: Sound hardware acceleration...

Atcually, I should be asking how I can access the directx settings to turn
this on or off. I can't seem to find a way to access any of the directx
settings.

"gvii" wrote:

> I was curious if there was a way in Vista to shut off hardware acceleration
> for the sound card. I'm getting sound stuttering in certain games that I
> normally corrected by shutting off acceleration, but I can't find a setting
> to do it.

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 10-22-2006   #3 (permalink)
dev


 
 

Re: Sound hardware acceleration...

/gvii/ said:

> I was curious if there was a way in Vista to shut off hardware acceleration
> for the sound card. I'm getting sound stuttering in certain games that I
> normally corrected by shutting off acceleration, but I can't find a setting
> to do it.


....and I would be surprised if you do. Vista handles sound in a new way.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,4666.html

See the links to the Creative forums where there people explain the
situation.
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Old 10-22-2006   #4 (permalink)
dev


 
 

Re: Sound hardware acceleration...

/gvii/ said:

> I was curious if there was a way in Vista to shut off hardware acceleration
> for the sound card. I'm getting sound stuttering in certain games that I
> normally corrected by shutting off acceleration, but I can't find a setting
> to do it.


...and I would be surprised if you do. Vista handles sound in a new way.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,4666.html

See the links to the Creative forums where their people explain the
situation.
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 10-22-2006   #5 (permalink)
gvii


 
 

Re: Sound hardware acceleration...

Ok, I followed the link to the Creative site which states that Vista
automatically disables Directsound acceleration. That makes things quite a
bit more sticky, but saved me from running through hoops for the next few
days.

So, in short, thank you for pointing that out. Saved me a lot of time. I
very much appreciate it.

"dev" wrote:

> /gvii/ said:
>
> > I was curious if there was a way in Vista to shut off hardware acceleration
> > for the sound card. I'm getting sound stuttering in certain games that I
> > normally corrected by shutting off acceleration, but I can't find a setting
> > to do it.

>
> ...and I would be surprised if you do. Vista handles sound in a new way.
>
> http://www.nordichardware.com/news,4666.html
>
> See the links to the Creative forums where their people explain the
> situation.
>

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Old 10-23-2006   #6 (permalink)
Billmc


 
 

Re: Sound hardware acceleration...

i'm getting all windows sounds, audio sounds from cd's but not from dvd's,
tried just about everything, but i see now it's something to do with vista.
so what now!?

"gvii" wrote:

> Ok, I followed the link to the Creative site which states that Vista
> automatically disables Directsound acceleration. That makes things quite a
> bit more sticky, but saved me from running through hoops for the next few
> days.
>
> So, in short, thank you for pointing that out. Saved me a lot of time. I
> very much appreciate it.
>
> "dev" wrote:
>
> > /gvii/ said:
> >
> > > I was curious if there was a way in Vista to shut off hardware acceleration
> > > for the sound card. I'm getting sound stuttering in certain games that I
> > > normally corrected by shutting off acceleration, but I can't find a setting
> > > to do it.

> >
> > ...and I would be surprised if you do. Vista handles sound in a new way.
> >
> > http://www.nordichardware.com/news,4666.html
> >
> > See the links to the Creative forums where their people explain the
> > situation.
> >

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