Advice on new soundcard

Hi all,

My Sound Blaster Live value is getting a bit long in the tooth and I'm thinking about upgrading it, mainly cos the hardware acceleration causes more harm than good

I don't want to spend too much money (£40 max) so I'm not looking at something cutting edge, more cheap and cheerful ...

I mainly use my pc for gaming and listening to music.. can anyone recommend a decent budget sound card? Or is it worth spending a bit more on, say, and Audigy 2?

My problems are mostly with specific games. I pretty much always have to set 3D sound to off to make games work. The card seems to cause crashes to desktop in Morrowind, amongst other games. I have tried updating the driver and turning acceleration off but to no avail!

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Accept that some days you are a pigeon and some days you are a statue....

If you are using XP it is a 'normal' behaviouere ov eet.

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I feel your pain with the CREATIVE product which you so happened to get stuck with.

Try a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. Should be able to find one of those cheap/on sale somewhere.

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why do you think its a problem with XP? i've have several other machines with XP on them and they dont have this problem. in any case, putting win2k on the machine isnt an option.

thanks for the advice

thats really not much of a conclusion ... how do you come to that conclusion? You are telling me i should completely reinstall my system with an older OS and you arent telling me why you think XP is the problem. Did you have this same problem? If you had the same problem and putting win2k solved it, it could also mean there was a bad driver somewhere and the one for win2k worked better. I'm guessing if this was some built in problem in XP then a lot of people would be complaining about it. So i can only assume its either some software i have installed or my hardware configuration.

again, i have other machines with XP on them and none of them have this problem.

can you show me where other people have had this same problem? maybe some of them discovered a solution other then installing win2k, thanks

a complete reinstall? i.e. format the drive, or just reinstall it on top of my existing xp?

I'd be willing to try this to see if it does fix it. I'm doubtful since i still think its a hardware issue. But i'd be willing to put another hard drive in there and test it.

i was wondering if that were the case, especially with his 'french' accent at the begining. But i was trying to be open minded.

thanks

you can wonder (like now for several days, sheesh..) and keep on getting stupid remarks about pipel that are telling you the stuff, and do nothing, or you can play with stuff and learn it, so next time you'll know if some stupid body like myself is telling you the stuff.

i don't understand what is so freaky about reinstalling windows, it takes 1 hour max with today's hardware, why is that every one holds on to it as it were their last hope for survival? heh..

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""Reinstalling xp takes many hours.. Several days at least before the system is about what you had before""

gg, why was I even talking to you.. Ghost takes 20 min for me to have WHOLE system back if I wish to have it fresh in case of virus or for the heck of it, data gets ALWAYS written into different partition than OS to begin with. You are either too small to understand stuff, or just plain faking it.

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LOL, bwahahahahahaha, sheeez, you know how to make pipel laugh, lol.

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