(This might be better placed in the driver forums... but I have a feeling its not driver related)
I installed Vista x64 on a brand new system with a Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio sound card.
I first tried the default Vista drivers and then later swapped to Creatives most recent release.
I encountered the same problem with both drivers, my inbound volume on my microphone was inaudable, to correct this I enabled the +20DB boots, this made the audio audable, but introduced a very loud hiss.
Deciding to change a few things, I wiped the box clean and re-installed Vista, this time with my Creative Audigy 2 card. Again using default drivers, and then switching to Creatives latest drivers.
I encountered similar problems, with regard to the audio. However another bug surfaced, namely the microphone volume slider keeps reseting to zero, inexplicably. Again with +20DB enabled audio was audable, with a much lower sample rate selected (22k). At higher sample rates the audio distorted a lot.
Now, my most recent problem. I shut down the PC and rebooted this morning, I sat about and installed and patched Battlefield 2. (Unfortunatly I didn't test volume after rebooting - before installing BF2).
Now I have a stange issue, according to the meter on the recording audio properties, the sound seems to be audable, (i.e if i make a lot of noise the bar is maxed). However applications trying to use the microphone, are getting hardly any volume at all. My main application is Ventrilo, which currently reports a '1' as a peak volume when using its monitoring.
I am intrested to know if people have had similar microphone issues, with either Creative cards or other cards.
I have spent about 2 hours fiddling with different settings to no avail.
(As a final note the Microphone/soundcards are both fine in Win2k and XP)
Edit:
Upon reflection, Battlefield 2 performs an audio calibration and sets a 'volume threshold', this appears to apply globally (to direct sound??) and causes the lower volume issues!
I installed Vista x64 on a brand new system with a Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio sound card.
I first tried the default Vista drivers and then later swapped to Creatives most recent release.
I encountered the same problem with both drivers, my inbound volume on my microphone was inaudable, to correct this I enabled the +20DB boots, this made the audio audable, but introduced a very loud hiss.
Deciding to change a few things, I wiped the box clean and re-installed Vista, this time with my Creative Audigy 2 card. Again using default drivers, and then switching to Creatives latest drivers.
I encountered similar problems, with regard to the audio. However another bug surfaced, namely the microphone volume slider keeps reseting to zero, inexplicably. Again with +20DB enabled audio was audable, with a much lower sample rate selected (22k). At higher sample rates the audio distorted a lot.
Now, my most recent problem. I shut down the PC and rebooted this morning, I sat about and installed and patched Battlefield 2. (Unfortunatly I didn't test volume after rebooting - before installing BF2).
Now I have a stange issue, according to the meter on the recording audio properties, the sound seems to be audable, (i.e if i make a lot of noise the bar is maxed). However applications trying to use the microphone, are getting hardly any volume at all. My main application is Ventrilo, which currently reports a '1' as a peak volume when using its monitoring.
I am intrested to know if people have had similar microphone issues, with either Creative cards or other cards.
I have spent about 2 hours fiddling with different settings to no avail.
(As a final note the Microphone/soundcards are both fine in Win2k and XP)
Edit:
Upon reflection, Battlefield 2 performs an audio calibration and sets a 'volume threshold', this appears to apply globally (to direct sound??) and causes the lower volume issues!
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