Rank: OC Padawan
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Location: Auckland
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Hey. I've got an older setup (C2D, Asus P5k, Creative Audigy, Plantronics Gamecon 377) that I use for games and not a lot else and have recently started having trouble - specifically Bioshock crashing and poor mic volume. I've done some reading and I think I can attribute these problems to my old sound card, e.g.
Bioshock (gotta love the $5 specials on Steam) - commenting out the audio config in default.ini fixes the crash but disables sound...
So I was wondering what gamers are using?
Onboard - cheap and it's already there...
USB - convenient but apparently ups CPU usage...
Soundcard - more variety these days but can be VERY expensive...
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Rank: PC Guru
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i just use the onboard audio because i dont see the point in buying a sound card when you already have audio ports on the motherboard.
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as of 28 August 2010
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Rank: OC Padawan
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Location: Taranaki
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i have a sound card but don't know because i was noticing some back ground fuzz... i have now worked out it's was had nothing to do with the onboard audio and is a plug/cable, probably the 3.5 extension to my monitors speakers/headphone jack as i often switch to speakers and to different headphones often i just temper it with complex volume adjustment (it was only noticeable when i had speakers and headphone volume at max and win volume quite low).
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen.
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