KVR Audio

MaxC · Post by **MaxC** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:10 pm

Does anyone know if it is possible to, with Windows or a third party utility, select between soundcards/onboard sound for individual applications? The reason I ask is that my sound card is not really game oriented, and a lot of my games have crackly sound or glitch out from time to time. I was hoping there might be an easy way to disable my soundcard for certain applications and not for others. The games that have been having issues do not have the ability to choose onboard sound, so it seems like the only alternative is an external utility. Thanks in advance.

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:16 pm

Ya, should be able to just go into the Device Mangler, select what card you want gone, and "disable from profile". Should work without a reboot even.

Devon

annode · Post by **annode** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:23 pm

If you go to;

Start/settings/control panel/sounds and audio devices/audio tab

you can choose what card you want to use at any time.
Thr check box at the page bottom,checked,will assure you that only the card you have chosen will be selected by the app

PS: Also,the glitchy sound maybe due to the game running up the CPU workload to a high enough level to produce system speed probs.

Right click on taskbar/task manager/performance tab.
On the page bottom is the CPU workload in %.

If the CPU% is too close to 100% when game is running...that`s the cause for the sound dropouts.

MaxC · Post by **MaxC** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:56 pm

Ok I'll give those suggestions a try. Thanks a lot guys.

uncadave · Post by **uncadave** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:03 am

most of my applications allow me to change between cards and drivers via system setings or options or whatnot and i don't have problems with it. i have integrated sound in the mb, sb audigy, mbox.

JeffSanders · Post by **JeffSanders** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:53 am

I have a question - kind of related but not really

If you upgrade your sound card after all audio is recorded - but before mixdown, will your music theoretically still come out sounding better because of it (ie. converters, fx processing etc.)?

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:15 am

JeffSanders wrote: If you upgrade your sound card after all audio is recorded - but before mixdown, will your music theoretically still come out sounding better because of it (ie. converters, fx processing etc.)?

In case you only go for internal processing: No.
But, with a better soundcard you might be able to judge better on what's wrong and what isn't as it might give you less colored output results than, say, a Soundblaster.
Of course the rest of your monitoring chain (amp, speakers/headphones) should be up to the task as well, if possible.

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:17 am

GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out. Simple as that.

Devon

Is it possible to select between sound cards per program?