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Hi guys
Just got one of these as many of you have one and say how good they are! I have been using the onboard audio for ages! and the onboard audio on this newest motherboard I have is not that great.
So got one of these and you can really tell the difference when playing music and the extra options you get make the music sound so much better and clearer than before! bass is really nice to listen too and not really imposing as it is on lower spec sound hardware!
Next thing is to try it in gaming which in theory should be better than onboard?
I noticed in TF2 that if alot of action happens and I am say a soldier I dont get any rocket firing sound effects, its silient and i wonder if this is a limit of the onboard sound device not being able to make all the other noises and this one at the same time?
Next thing is to try it in gaming which in theory should be better than onboard?
You can hear flies buzzing in 2142
lol!
I have one probelm though
I am having major problems with the microphone input. it has no power in it at all.
The only way people can hear me on TS is if i practically have the mic boom on the headset in my mouth.
This is with the mic part plugged into the mic 3.5 socket on the back of the sound card.
I had the same problem with the onboard sound on this motherboard and thought it was something specific to that, but it seems not.
My old motherboards onboard sound worked perfectly no such problems!
Now I was a bit bad and never reinstalled windows when changhing my m/b cpu etc and so probably the original sound drivers never got uninstalled properly, but i got the new onboard drivers installed ok and working. Then i uninstalled and then disabled the onboard sound device on this current motherboard before installed the creative soundcard and its drivers.
one thing that is wierd is that the mic boost tick box in windows disappeared. i am planning on reformatting at the weekend as may be its just gone a bit cock eyed with the changes and no reformat.
what do you guys think?
I had this problem before, and Silent Bob helped me sort it out – just checking the obvious, you have played around with the volume controls, and tested the hardware from sound options in Ctrol Pannel?
Ok I finally found the mic boost option.
It only exists on the creative mixer (not on windows control panel stuff anywhere) and basically on the volume control for mic channel playback there is a little + that you can click and there is a little menu item called 20DB mic boost. clicked that and the pick up is a bit better now.
Nothing in the help about it either, its all about setting up your speakers and playback it seems, hardly any help on sound input and recording!
But should be in business now.
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