Realtek alc1150 vs sound blaster drivers#

There is a Dolby Headphone DSP for Foobar2000 that works independently of the sound card, if you like that sort of thing. So they both should sound the same over headphones for music and movies unless one card is set to use Room Environments or other Digital Signal Processing effects (which normally are not used for everyday music listening).

Realtek alc1150 vs sound blaster drivers#

Modern Realtek chips and drivers are very good lacking only hardware 3d acceleration (EAC 4-5) which is disabled in Vista and Windows 7 anyway (or emulated in software using Creative's Alchemy EAC emulation software). You could switch outputs in Foobar2000 or the Windows 7 sound control depending on how you wish to listen. The simplest would be to listen with headphones on the Realtek and speakers on the Creative Labs card. There are several solutions that will work. Card 1 would have to decode the digital signal back to analog to present it to you at the front headphone jack. I wouldn't try this though because card 1 will process the input from card 2 no matter what you do and not be a simple pass-through. Thats because Foobar2000 lets you set the output separately from the windows sound control, but things like Windows Media Player does not. I don't have 2 cards in my system just now to test this But I think if you selected card 2 for output, then set card 1 to input you can't listen to card 1 because you can only select one output device at a time? Now using something like Foobar2000 you could get around that by setting it to output to card 2 and in Windows set card 1 to both input and output. The idea of output from one card and input to another card that you want to listen to leads to a problem. i just want to get untouched SB PCI card audio to go out both speakers and front headphone jack on realtek. should i select digital out as the default output device, then go digital out port on SB, in to Digital in on Realtek on-board, then show play output on Realtek, which will basically pass it through and the realtek will handle the switching between speakers on its Line-Out and front panel headphone jack? i know this has got to be so simple, but i just can't think of it right now. Now under Windows 7 (and maybe other OS's, i just know here) under every INPUT/Recording device there is 'Listen' tab that you can check 'Listen on this port' and play output on -> and you can select any of the Output devices on the system. Just FYI, the Soundblaster card has a 'digital i/o' port, specs below - it's a 3.5' jack - the realtek has pretty much all inputs. I'm imagining there is a way to do this in Windows 7. I just want it to carry the audio to its audio ports. basically use the Realtek as a pass-through. Ultimately, all i want to do is pass the audio OUT to the Realtek front output. I know there are easier solutions to this (get speakers w/ headphone output, get a splitter and cut off the speakers when you want headphones, etc.) and the back of the computer isn't really in an easily accessible spot. Headphones every time i want to use one or the other. Using this PCI card, I have to keep switching the speakers and which is standard everyday music listening, etc. Here is my dilemma - i MUCH prefer the audio of the Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, and hate the on-board for what I do. i can't use the front headers/plugs as of now. but since my specific X-Fi card doesn't have outputs for front-header (uses proprietary crap). Which might be why they are almost done existing now, actually.I hope this is the right area to ask this and I hope someone has an answer for me. That's the ONLY thing Creative has left that no one else has, and ever since Microsoft buried DirectSound3D/EAX in a shallow grave with Vista/7, you'd think Creative would understand that OpenAL is crucial to their continued existence.

Really? I would think it's hugely in Creative's interest to promote OpenAL since without hardware sound acceleration a Creative card is a waste of money over onboard software audio. It's not in Creative's best interest to promote it. Still not one of these titles touts Hardware acceleration as a benefit and barely acknowledges that OpenAL is used aside from perhaps Dirt2.Д¬onsidering Creative is essentially in control of OpenAL, it's no wonder it's not more widely used. The one outlier I found in all the games released last year was Dirt2 which uses OpenAL and includes ' Rapture 3D' for audio rendering. Yeah taking a look around at it now it seems there are new titles using OpenAL, but only because thats what UnrealEngine3 uses for audio. I haven't seen one personally since Bioshock 1.