Anyway to use two different drivers for one sound card in W2K

[pinkchry]

Hi, I have a cheapo cmi based sound card with spdif out. I discovered that
the maudio 2448 drivers work well with it to provide bit perfect 44.1KHz output.
However powerdvd/windvd doesn't pass through dd/dts with this driver
the zoltrix driver does.

Is there any way to set up hardware profiles (or some other magic) so
that I can boot into windows 2k and choose the driver I want. I tried
the simple way of having two hardware profiles, but that doesn't work.

Any solution that doesn't involve reinstalling two copies of the os is
acceptable

Thanks

 

[Krye]

Well, the only way I can think of is that whenever you want to switch drivers you click the "update drvers" button in hardware properties for your soundcard and you manually select the driver you want to switch to. Then it'll reinstall them and hopefully won't even need to reboot. Try that! If you're really sly you could even make yourself a script to do that for you!

 

[ivwshane]

I wonder if hardware profiles would work in this case?

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: ivwshane
I wonder if hardware profiles would work in this case?

that's the first thing that popped in my head. goto windows help and lookup "setup hardware profile" if you dont know what we're talking about

-Spy

 

[spyordie007]

EDIT: oops, wrong thread

 

[pinkchry]

Unfortunately, it looks like you can only enable or disable devices in
hardware profiles.

I'd love to be proved wrong.