Custom Sound Card Drivers

[tandino]

Does anybody know of any sites similar to guru3d.com that do custom or optimised drivers but for sound cards rather than graphics cards?

I've been convinced for a while that my sound card could do better than it is but the drivers haven't been updated for a few years.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

only thing i know of is http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/

but that's not great for gamers

[tandino]

only thing i know of is http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/

but that's not great for gamers

I'm having a look now. I think gaming is where the problem lies, watching video/listening to music is fine, very good in fact. It's the moment I start with settings in game - it tends to go all horrible and scratchy after a while.

At the moment it's more of an annoyance than anything. I'd like to find out if it's affecting FPS/general performance though.

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Sorry, I only know of http://www.omegadrivers.net/ for video cards.

They worked wonders on my 6800, but I haven't tried them on my x1950 yet

/unhelpful

[viper_2090]

I was unaware it's possible to get custom drivers at all, but this topic reminds me of a question I was going to ask...

I've got a 5.1 sound card (Hercules Muse 5.1 DVD) and a set of Logitech 5.1 speakers (Z640s). I am using the driver that came with the card, which happens to be the latest driver.

The yellow jack out of my sound card is for both the sub and the centre channel. I get all the basses from the sub, but my centre channel is totally silent! I can press the 'matrix' button on my centre speaker which makes it work but it just copies the noise from the left and right front speakers.

I'm not sure whether it's the soundcard not outputting properly, or the speakers not splitting the sub/centre channels correctly

Anyone else have a 5.1 setup, and if so do you have the same problem or not?

I know this is just a little thing, but it does make me !

[Dog Pants]

I have an Audigy, which apparently supports surround sound (5.1 I assume). I also had a Videologic Digitheatre that cost me £300 at the time. The sound card had front and rear outputs, and the Digitheatre's decoder had left and right inputs. I never managed to sort it out, much to my dismay.

[FatherJack]

I used to always just use Windows drivers, as Creative's ones were so pants. Finally they started doing a "drivers only" option, but I never upgrade them once they're working - I've gotten stuff in an unfixable mess doing so.