GPL, XP and Turtle Beach Sound Card

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

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

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 BRH wrote:

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> 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

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

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> 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

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