Windows XP Pro, Creative Sound Blaster Live about 2.5 years old now.
Basically I use the Line in a lot. It's the way I can watch television while using the PC. You see, everything in my rooms hooks to my amp, and if my TV hooks to the amp directly, I can either have the TV sound on, or the PC sound on. So I run it through my PC, so the sound mix together on the Live.
Now, I normally use the XP drivers and they are fine, but the problem developed where the Line In wouldn't initiallise when I booted XP up. ie: No sound came through. Sometimes after a few minutes, it'd open up (like the Line In was unmuted), and work fine from then on. Sometimes it just wouldn't come on until you do something on the PC that addresses the live card. For instance: Open up volume control.
Meaning, it's all quiet and as soon as you open the volume control in windows then the Line In would immediatly open up.
Annoying when you want things to just work right off the bat.
I thought must be driver problem, so I downlaoded the latest XP drivers for the card. After the installation it fixed the Line In problem. It'd open up the Line In on bootup. But the quality of the sound coming from the line in was utter crap. Badly distorted and really you couldn't listen to it.
So I took the downloaded drivers off. With those drivers off, the Line In problem is still fixed -> ie: it works on startup. But when I took off the drivers all output on the card has an echo. Just like you have an environment setting applied to your output to make it echo for whatever reason. But it's the Windows drivers, nowhere to set this or disable it.
Now after a few days my Line In problem is back to it's delay in opening up and usually I have to run the volume control to make it work. My echo is still there.
So my question is this:
? Anyone know anything about why a live card would delay in opening the Line In port?
? Anyone know how to get rid of the echo with the standard Windows drivers?
OR
? Anyone know a version of drivers for XP that won't make the Line In sound like suck.
Basically I use the Line in a lot. It's the way I can watch television while using the PC. You see, everything in my rooms hooks to my amp, and if my TV hooks to the amp directly, I can either have the TV sound on, or the PC sound on. So I run it through my PC, so the sound mix together on the Live.
Now, I normally use the XP drivers and they are fine, but the problem developed where the Line In wouldn't initiallise when I booted XP up. ie: No sound came through. Sometimes after a few minutes, it'd open up (like the Line In was unmuted), and work fine from then on. Sometimes it just wouldn't come on until you do something on the PC that addresses the live card. For instance: Open up volume control.
Meaning, it's all quiet and as soon as you open the volume control in windows then the Line In would immediatly open up.
Annoying when you want things to just work right off the bat.
I thought must be driver problem, so I downlaoded the latest XP drivers for the card. After the installation it fixed the Line In problem. It'd open up the Line In on bootup. But the quality of the sound coming from the line in was utter crap. Badly distorted and really you couldn't listen to it.
So I took the downloaded drivers off. With those drivers off, the Line In problem is still fixed -> ie: it works on startup. But when I took off the drivers all output on the card has an echo. Just like you have an environment setting applied to your output to make it echo for whatever reason. But it's the Windows drivers, nowhere to set this or disable it.
Now after a few days my Line In problem is back to it's delay in opening up and usually I have to run the volume control to make it work. My echo is still there.
So my question is this:
? Anyone know anything about why a live card would delay in opening the Line In port?
? Anyone know how to get rid of the echo with the standard Windows drivers?
OR
? Anyone know a version of drivers for XP that won't make the Line In sound like suck.