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pancakes
08-01-2005, 07:10 PM
I recently upraged to a soundblaster live! card from my onboard sound. With the onboard i got 53fps and with no sound i got 63fps. Now that i added the new card i get 40 fps on all sound settings. :confused: What can i do to fix this?
Zeratul
08-01-2005, 07:17 PM
Sound shouldnt effect your FPS.
pancakes
08-01-2005, 07:18 PM
It does. It uses the CPU to prrocess/play the sounds.
Zeratul
08-01-2005, 07:35 PM
It does. It uses the CPU to prrocess/play the sounds.

Ya but its so minimal that it shouldnt effect your FPS. You can run a Sound Blaster live on a pentium II 350 mhz.

did you replicate the exact situation from before when you didnt have a soundcard?
pancakes
08-01-2005, 07:41 PM
Of course.
Phoenix0783
08-01-2005, 07:49 PM
The sound card has its own processor to play sounds and add effects. The sound does not use any cpu cycles when you have a dedicated card like the soundblaster.
pancakes
08-01-2005, 08:11 PM
So why did my FPS go down? And how do i fix it?
Mickezzz
08-01-2005, 08:21 PM
Il get tommorow also new Creative Soundblaster live 24bit soundcard! Is it much better sound then onboard? Have you installed newest drivers from internet?
pancakes
08-01-2005, 08:26 PM
Its sounds MUCH better and i do have the latest drivers. But for some reason it seems to be eating more than its fair share of CPU time.
pancakes
08-01-2005, 10:58 PM
Nobody has any ideas?!
Schalldämpfer
08-01-2005, 11:04 PM
Something's wrong. Try reinstalling your drivers. With the load of audio taken off of the CPU, you should actually see an increase.
pancakes
08-02-2005, 12:12 AM
Didnt help :(
kewl e-man
08-02-2005, 12:54 AM
did u UNINSTALL THE OLD ONE FIRST. restart ur comp and install ur new one. did u uninstall the old one right. not just the drivers but the whole deal. then try installing ur new one.
NoSoup4You
08-02-2005, 01:00 AM
Go into your Sound Settings in Windows and make sure it is all set to your SoundBlaster card, also when you restart next time, go into your BIOS and disable the onboard sound.
gogtaylor
08-02-2005, 01:30 AM
Make sure you disable onboard sound like king said. I bet thats your prob
pancakes
08-02-2005, 03:26 AM
I've done all of that. I know a fair bit about computers and hardware stuff. It IS using my soundcard it's just not performing well.
Bugilt
08-02-2005, 04:37 AM
svchost.exe process is used for sound. See if one of the svchost it taking alot of memory...
NoSoup4You
08-02-2005, 04:44 AM
It just seems to me like a hardware conflict because no doubt the sound card should have helped, not hurt.

Also which Live! did you get? 5.1 or 24bit?
pancakes
08-02-2005, 05:27 PM
24 bit. I have 18 processes running and 5 are svchosts?! One takes up 14 megs of memory.