Michichael
Member
OK folks. Fresh to the meat grinder, I installed Vista. Little did I know the torment that would ensue. I thought people were exaggerating when they said how much it crashed. Well, it's still crashing, though only every hour or so instead of every 5 min, so for now that's fine... But my question involves the configuration of multiple outputs in Vista!
If you recall, in XP there was a nifty section of the control panel where you could select the default output device for various things: MIDI, Audo, etc.
If I set my default audio device to my USB soundcard, I could listen to the games I was playing. If I also set the default MIDI to my sound card, Media Player would produce soothing tunes to my slaughter in Counterstrike, through the speakers in my room.
I had the voice settings configured even, to use my headset for both input and output (It's a nice headset!)
However in Vista, I cannot do that. Playing Halo 2, the voice comes from my speakers, even though the input is through my headset. The sound is through my headset as well. If I try playing music, I have to set the default device to my speakers, and not play a game at all, or that too would waft from the other sound card.
So how can I set this up? I've fiddled with the mixer, but that only lets me set the volume from a program on a device, not which device to use. I'd like to be able to configure which device plays the audio back! How can I set this up?
If you recall, in XP there was a nifty section of the control panel where you could select the default output device for various things: MIDI, Audo, etc.
If I set my default audio device to my USB soundcard, I could listen to the games I was playing. If I also set the default MIDI to my sound card, Media Player would produce soothing tunes to my slaughter in Counterstrike, through the speakers in my room.
I had the voice settings configured even, to use my headset for both input and output (It's a nice headset!)
However in Vista, I cannot do that. Playing Halo 2, the voice comes from my speakers, even though the input is through my headset. The sound is through my headset as well. If I try playing music, I have to set the default device to my speakers, and not play a game at all, or that too would waft from the other sound card.
So how can I set this up? I've fiddled with the mixer, but that only lets me set the volume from a program on a device, not which device to use. I'd like to be able to configure which device plays the audio back! How can I set this up?
