05-13-2003, 06:14 PM
So I pick up this board and install it - totally removing any trace of the Soundblaster card and it's drivers/software. The install goes well, but I only selected to install the drivers, not the extraneous software that it comes with (which mainly looked like all kinds of different Audio applications for recording, etc.).
Anyway, my MP3's and CD's sound great - better than my old machine with the Audigy card. I also like the fact that the Santa Cruz also normalizes the volume with my Windows volume (which was always a problem with the Soundblaster cards, it took me forever to find that "sweet spot" between the Windows volume level and the card's level). My problem is in games - they sound too muffled. The volume is there, but it sounds like the Treble is down (which it's not, I usually kick up Bass and Treble to at least 75% each). I played with the settings in the TB control panel and like I said, my music sounds perfect - but in games, there's a noticeable difference.
The two games I've installed so far are Return to Castle Wolfenstein and UT2K3. Wolf doesn't have much of an audio setting within it, just a quality level (of which I select 22 khz, the highest quality level) and UT2K3 it's the same deal - high quality audio. Am I missing something? Was there something in those other applications I should've installed?
Anyway, my MP3's and CD's sound great - better than my old machine with the Audigy card. I also like the fact that the Santa Cruz also normalizes the volume with my Windows volume (which was always a problem with the Soundblaster cards, it took me forever to find that "sweet spot" between the Windows volume level and the card's level). My problem is in games - they sound too muffled. The volume is there, but it sounds like the Treble is down (which it's not, I usually kick up Bass and Treble to at least 75% each). I played with the settings in the TB control panel and like I said, my music sounds perfect - but in games, there's a noticeable difference.
The two games I've installed so far are Return to Castle Wolfenstein and UT2K3. Wolf doesn't have much of an audio setting within it, just a quality level (of which I select 22 khz, the highest quality level) and UT2K3 it's the same deal - high quality audio. Am I missing something? Was there something in those other applications I should've installed?
