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Sound problems with Terratec anyone?

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  • Monday, January 12, 2009 9:36 AM
     
     
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    Hi!

    I have a Terratec Aureon 7.1 Universe PCI soundcard installed that worked OK for a few hours than started giving out crackling sound. No matter what I do with the options the sound keeps crackling. I'm a software and music production professional and have tried everything that can be tried to get rid of this noise. In the past this was related to DirectX and GPU drivers (way back before Windows XP) and the crackling reduced a bit in Winamp when I have chosen a WaveOut plugin instead of DirectSound.

    This is really annoying and I wonder if any of you had a similar problem and did you manage to solve it?


    I'm using the Vista beta drivers for this soundcard. They worked perfectly there without any problems so I suppose it's either DirectX 11 doing something here or the Windows Communication Foundation that came with the Windows Live installer (I have a feeling this is happening only while latest Windows Live Messenger from http://download.live.com is running).

    Any ideas/suggestions?
     

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  • Monday, January 12, 2009 5:20 PM
     
     
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    Seems like this is being affected a lot by network activity. I'll try to disable my network adapter and see what happens.
     
  • Monday, January 12, 2009 8:32 PM
     
     
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    Hey,

    I'm having exactly the same problem with my Realtek AC'97 audio output, and it's making testing many features quite unpleasant. My friend, who is also running the Beta OS, doesn't seem to have any issues with this, so I too would like to know if anyone has any ideas about this.

    Thanks
     
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:08 PM
     
     
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    I've managed to minimize crackling by enabling all disabled elements of my sound card (like stereo mix, etc) and setting them all to 2 channel, 24bit, 48khz, and turning of the exclusive usage. Now crackling appears only when I have eitherd CPU, GPU, or HDD activity - I'm not sure yet.

    Whatever your settings are try setting the SAME for all playback and recording devices and see what happens. Somehow I want to blame DirectX!

    On a side note I'm using SAM Broadcaster which has an option to use a "Kernel Streaming Output" that has no crackling at all. I didn't try the DirectX output yet as I'm afraid it might break it.
     
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:55 PM
     
     
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    Hey, thanks for that, but I tried following it, and once I get to the Properties dialog for my sound card, the Default Format section of the Advanced tab won't let me change any options, except to test the sound. I cannot actually configure anything there. Any ideas why this is?
     
  • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:18 PM
     
     
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    DomDove said:

    Hey, thanks for that, but I tried following it, and once I get to the Properties dialog for my sound card, the Default Format section of the Advanced tab won't let me change any options, except to test the sound. I cannot actually configure anything there. Any ideas why this is?


    Hmm. I had the same problem because some other apps were running in the background and using the soundcard. Try turning all applications off before changing this. If these options were disabled or there was no choice maybe your soundcard does not support them?