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GPL, XP and Turtle Beach Sound Card

bertr

GPL, XP and Turtle Beach Sound Card

by bertr » Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:01:49

After upgrading to XP, I recently replaced my SBLive soundcard with a
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.  The SBLive card had lots of stsatic and pops
in GPL, and I'd read that the Santa Cruz was a better choice under XP.

Although the sound is better in GPL with the TB card, I find that the
volume lessens considerably after a shunt off of the track.  It just
sounds like, after an incident, the sound is now farther away, if that
makes sense.  I've tried lowering the sound acceleration in dxdiag to
standard acceleration, but that didn't seem to change anything.

Is there a setting somewhere that I need to tweak, or are there updated
drivers to download from somewhere that would address this?  I'd be
interested in hearing experiences in GPL under XP from other Santa Cruz
users.  Is there a setting somewhere to use with racing sims?  (I'm
using the driver that came with the soundcard.)

FWIW, my system is an Athlon 2100XP, 512 Megs RAM, Cambridge Soundworks
Quad speakers (w/subwoofer), Epox 8Kha+ mobo.

Thanks!
Bert

bertr

GPL, XP and Turtle Beach Sound Card

by bertr » Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:39:51

OK.  I downloaded and installed an updated driver and the sound doesn't
seem to cut down anymore.  (Boy, Turtle Beach had that new driver hidden
within their website....)

However, now, I can't hear the tire screech over the engine sound.   That
tire screech always provided me useful feedback and now it's not there
until it's too late for me to react.  Is there any way, either in the TB
Control Panel or within GPL itself, to raise the relative volume of the
tire screech?

Thanks!
Bert


> After upgrading to XP, I recently replaced my SBLive soundcard with a
> Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.  The SBLive card had lots of stsatic and pops
> in GPL, and I'd read that the Santa Cruz was a better choice under XP.

> Although the sound is better in GPL with the TB card, I find that the
> volume lessens considerably after a shunt off of the track.  It just
> sounds like, after an incident, the sound is now farther away, if that
> makes sense.  I've tried lowering the sound acceleration in dxdiag to
> standard acceleration, but that didn't seem to change anything.

> Is there a setting somewhere that I need to tweak, or are there updated
> drivers to download from somewhere that would address this?  I'd be
> interested in hearing experiences in GPL under XP from other Santa Cruz
> users.  Is there a setting somewhere to use with racing sims?  (I'm
> using the driver that came with the soundcard.)

> FWIW, my system is an Athlon 2100XP, 512 Megs RAM, Cambridge Soundworks
> Quad speakers (w/subwoofer), Epox 8Kha+ mobo.

> Thanks!
> Bert

Roger Squire

GPL, XP and Turtle Beach Sound Card

by Roger Squire » Sun, 03 Aug 2003 08:39:18

You need to set the Sound Acceleration slider to one notch above basic.  You
got these drivers right ?
ftp://ftp.voyetra.com/pub/tbs/santacru/sc_4193.exe

rms


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