NoBS|Public Lounge => Rigs, Overclockers, Computers, Tech Help => Topic started by: Airedale on November 01, 2007, 07:47:26 PM
Title: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Airedale on November 01, 2007, 07:47:26 PM
I have a machine that is running vista home pro, and it has onboard Realtek HD sound. Not a big deal until I went to play COD2 and COD2 crashes. So still not a big deal I had an old soundblaster live card that I slapped in, oh wait vista doesn't support the card and neither does creative. I found a driver that works but the issue now is that I can't get the full use out of the card, such as TS or Mumble. So basically I have a nice machine with no way to do ts or mumble.
All that to ask, What Sound cards would you guys recommend that are affordable and descent? I am a mid range computer guy, best bang for the buck kind of thing. Keep in mind it has to work with Vista and my wife can't notice a lot of money missing from the account ;D
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: smitty1258 on November 01, 2007, 08:00:54 PM
ok perfect I have an xfi Im dying to sell.
Its an XFI music card, so it has the uber xfi chip
let me look.......
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: smitty1258 on November 01, 2007, 08:02:10 PM
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: heartsfan on November 01, 2007, 10:27:50 PM
Or you could use the Kx Drivers for the Soundblaster Live ..... they work in Vista! They are far better than Creative drivers anyway ..... you can get them here: http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/down.php?language=en (http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/down.php?language=en) The only thing wrong with the Kx drivers is they don't support EAX.
Sorry smitty. :P
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: heartsfan on November 02, 2007, 01:07:56 AM
Ok mate, you said on Xfire you tried the Kx drivers and couldn't get them to work.
Try this older version: http://download.kxproject.lugosoft.com/downloads/kxdrv3538l-full.exe (http://download.kxproject.lugosoft.com/downloads/kxdrv3538l-full.exe)
If these do not work try going to: http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=20 (http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=20) And download the Creative Modded Driver and install using Win XP Compatibility Mode.
Hopefully one of these will work. ;)
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: smitty1258 on November 02, 2007, 08:21:18 AM
I like EAX ;)
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 02, 2007, 09:49:01 AM
i have asound card for ya.. 7.1 dolby digital... EAX 1, 2 I believe.. its got fiber optical out.. ill throw in an optical cable too.. its a turtle beach montego ddl 7.1
nice card and ill beat smittys let me know
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Caboose on November 02, 2007, 02:59:50 PM
ok dude if your only problem is TS and mumble, buy a USB sound card. It can be as cheap as $5 (with shipping on ebay). It is like a USB storage drive, but has microphone and headphone jack. The way i have my sound setup is, on-board sound card output goes to big ass 5.1 surround, and then my USB soundcard is setup with my headset, so the MUMBLE sound goes just to the headset and not my surround sound.
Im not too sure if these will work with VISTA, but its cheap enuf for a try. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=so&sbrftog=1&catref=C6&from=R10&_trksid=m37&satitle=usb+sound&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&floc=1&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&sadis=200&fpos=&fbfmt=1&sabfmts=2&fobfmt=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=34%26fsoo%3D1&fgtp=
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 02, 2007, 03:13:37 PM
fuck you caboose me and smitty are tryin to wheel and deal and u gota come up all in our territory and bust our balls
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Caboose on November 02, 2007, 03:17:15 PM
lmao, thats what competition is all about bitchez. You are the big dealers from america, and i just beat your prices with piece of shit electronic from taiwan.
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 02, 2007, 03:44:28 PM
yea but u dont see any money u fag so shutup before i pwn you with my crackberry
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Caboose on November 02, 2007, 03:52:40 PM
lawl, fine ill ask airdale to pay $1 of my next donations since i saved him like 45 bucks
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: smitty1258 on November 02, 2007, 03:53:37 PM
He is all taken care of ladies, and Im out an Xfi
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 02, 2007, 03:54:02 PM
and got him a piece of shit taiwanese slave made plastic that will probably break if you can even get sound out of it
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 02, 2007, 03:54:18 PM
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Caboose on November 02, 2007, 03:58:45 PM
oh noes , now mr.wang will definitely gut out my entrails and feed them to dolphins.
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Sounds on November 02, 2007, 05:37:07 PM
cod4 = no eax. rofl. ill be using my onboard with cod4 >.<
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Airedale on November 15, 2007, 11:07:16 PM
BTW Smitty's POS sound card crashed my computer...thanks to his helpful used hardware. Should have went with Caboose's idea instead. It seems to be working fine after a complete reload of the machine but Hell if I wanted that kind of misery I would have went to the local walmart and bought one of their crap cards. LOL So basically Smitty bent me over and well you get the idea
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: smitty1258 on November 16, 2007, 07:03:18 AM
???????????
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: smitty1258 on November 16, 2007, 07:04:32 AM
I hope your kidding me right? I didnt use it because it wouldnt give me 5.1 to my headphones, only to my surround sound. I never had an issue with, or someone here woulda heard about it.
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 16, 2007, 08:50:37 AM
hahahahah smitty selling l33t broken shit!!!! hahahahahhahaha hahahha.... oh smitty........ lol but no probly just some hardware or irq conflict or something who knows.. im sure it works 100%
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: Airedale on November 16, 2007, 01:38:08 PM
Its working fine now. But seriously I had to do a fresh install of vista after continual blue screens. Not a big deal, all I use this machine for is gaming. No important info was lost. I think I had a driver conflict with trying to force the old soundblaster live card to work with vista and when I put a card that was compatible with vista it freaked. I also found that this Xfi card doesn't currently support Windows DRM and I was playing DRM music with it when it flipped out. Could have been why there was a caution on installation of the driver. :o ;D
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 16, 2007, 01:45:59 PM
dont worry about it what goes around comes around.. smitty sends u faulty sound card... i send him faulty cpu......... ALL GOOD
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: smitty1258 on November 16, 2007, 04:13:58 PM
ooooooOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo
werth you bitch!
I know it was a good card, lol.
If you need help getting EAX to work , let me know.
Title: Re: Vista + Realtek Sound Card
Post by: werth on November 16, 2007, 04:38:46 PM
haha yea i know im just playing... i hope the cpu does work tho LOL... i obv couldnt test it at work.. man that woulda beenf unny open up the box at work.... fuck id get in shit