Which sound card works great with XP?

Steer clear of any Hercules cards, they suck with XP.

Yea amen to the aureal. That is what i have right now. I got it to work right for some things doing the vortex2fix. HOwever, that made my other wierd stuff to start happening while playing games. I disabled it. Everything runs fine.

Thanks for your replies and keep them coming!!

My review of the Hercules Game Theatre XP is <A HREF="http://www.impactsites2000.com/tekreview/audioxp.htm" target="_new">here</A>. I highly recommend it, although I haven't used it in XP. Hercules' sound card drivers are less than perfect.

I have had nothing but problems with Creative cards, mostly because of drivers. I don't recommend them to anyone.

That said, you can also try Turtle Beach, if you like. I had a Philips Seismic Edge and hated it. Drivers were poor, and the chip on it was really bad. All three Philips cards use the same chip.

Hercules supposedly has a new card coming out soon, but I have no info on that.

Hope my post helps, but I suspect it didn't

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>> please more help..who is running xp and what are you running?

As I have stated, I am running MX300 with XP, using Win2k's drivers, runs like MX300, nothing less. On the other PC running basic SB64-128 card, has no problems with XP's drivers.

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

Microsoft has their own version of the Vortex2 drivers. If you've ever used a Vortex 2 in Win98 you probably know of the superior sound quality (unless you set it up wrong or were using a VIA chipset). If you tried to carry those drivers over to XP that may be your problem-try Microsofts drivers. I had XP with MS drivers for the Vortex2 and had no problems with the soundcard (but I didn't like XP for other reasons).

Back to you Tom...

Just pray you know how to use the SB card if you have a Via chipset (hint, make sure it stays in the #3 PCI Slot)

If it works for you then don't fix it.

I'm just wondering what makes you say the drivers are less than perfect? Do you mean they suck with winxp or that they are good but not perfect with win 9x/2k?

Their drivers are a little unstable (although I haven't proved that it is the sound card drivers), and don't yet work in XP (I have W2k). Supposedly this week they will release drivers that work in XP, something that Kyle from HardOCP says is true. Supposedly he has them and they work well.

And no, I installed about 3 different versions of the 4-in-1's (along with several other fixes), and it didn't help any.

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Ok I told you in my first post to go with a soundblaster live card.
But I now have the best sounding card I've tried and its a turtle beach santa cruz. This thing puts out awsome sound and it has xp drivers(you have to get them from the site). W2k drivers worked fine in xp also. So far its the only card that didnt give me trouble from the getgo.

If you ever stop learning, YOUR DEAD!!

Not at all. They have incredibly infrequent driver updates, even when there are glaring problems that should be easily fixable.

BTW, the new GTXP drivers work great in XP. I haven't really noticed any difference in games (UT), with the 'virtual 6.1', but it does add support for 6.1 speakers.

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