XP Sound issues - revisited (and a fix)

[David Pochron]

I did it! I wrote a small program that can be run at startup that
initializes DirectSound and makes the sound issues go away. Here's how my
menu popup event sounds with the 6.30 drivers and DirectSound not
initialized:

http://www.mindspring.com/~dpoch/bad.wma

and here's how it sounds with my fixer program running:

http://www.mindspring.com/~dpoch/good.wma

There's a clear difference in the quality of the sounds. So while the 6.30
drivers improve things, the overhead of initializing DirectSound for every
Windows sound event still causes the start of every event sound to not be
heard.

My fixer program (and instructions and source code) can be found here:

http://www.mindspring.com/~dpoch/CMediaFixer.zip

included is the menu popup sound I use (which is only .01 seconds long -
definitely short enough to make the latency issue manifest itself) in cause
you want to test you own setup.

Let me know what results you all get!

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David Pochron dp...@ticon.net

[Cipro]

Very cool...

Now can you fix the sensitivity on the Mic?

:)

Cipro

[Will]

Thanks David! I'll give it a go and post my results.

Will

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