Re: Dolby Digital Live Pack - Sb Audigy Series Crack
Gifford Brickley
Go an internal one and plug it in to a PCI-e 1x slot and you will be sweet. The GPU thing is only if you plug it in to one of the long slots but you should have plenty of the small slots left on your motherboard.
avenga hit it with the driver there..(see what i did there..speaker driver sound...hahahah) and do not buy into that gold cable connecter bs...all a gold connecter does is prevent corrosion you still get the same sound quality if u buy a good and not a walmart type cable.
The problem with optical is that you can't carry 5.1 audio unless you compress it with some form of Dolby. Sound Blasters use Dolby Digital Live to encode the audio then your receiver decodes it. My Logitech 5.1 speakers support Dolby so I could run my game audio through optical but typically only home entertainment receivers have Dolby support and they aren't usually powerful enough (I tried it with a top of the line Onkyo receiver and it wasn't powerful enough)
S/PDIF can carry two channels of uncompressed PCM audio or compressed 5.1/7.1 surround sound (such as DTS audio codec); it cannot support lossless formats (such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio) which require greater bandwidth like that available with HDMI or DisplayPort.
The other thing you then need to worry about is how your onboard sound card deals with 5.1 from non-Dolby games. If a game supports Dolby Digital directly then it will be able to send the 5.1 data directly across the optical to your receiver. If the game doesn't support Dolby Digital then it will output the audio as uncompressed multichannel that needs to be encoded to Dolby Digital so it can be sent as compressed audio across the optical. Sound Blaster do this with Dolby Digital Live -blaster-audigy-series-dolby-digital-live-pack But some sound cards don't have any means of encoding the audio, so if your game doesn't support Dolby Digital then you won't get any 5.1 sound.
Dolby versus Multichannel
First, swtor does not output Dolby Digital encoded sound. It outputs multichannel sound.
Dolby Digital encodes multichannel sound in a specific format. In order to get Dolby Digital from swtor you'll have to do it externally, the game itself can't do it.
SPDIF (optical connection) can only pass 2.0 (2.1?) or Dolby Digital or DTS sound
This is the a big secret you will not read about. You can't get uncompressed 5.1 sound or 7.1 sound through SPDIF (digital optical connection). The only way to get 5.1 sound or 7.1 sound from it is if it is encoded in Dolby Digital or DTS format. You will NOT get a 5.1 or 7.1 by just selecting appropriate Digital optical output in windows and setting the proper number of speakers.
How to get Dolby Digital / DTS sound from Star Wars - Dolby Digital Live
You will not get Dolby Digital directly from swtor. You'll need a way to encode mutichannel to Dolby Digital format. The magic word is Dobly Digital Live. This technology transforms multichannel audio to Dolby Digital format.
Now if you are lucky you accomplish this by turning on Dolby Digital Live encoding on your sound card. If your card doesn't come with Dolby Digital Live capability or the capbility to output sound as DTS through optical connection you are screwed. Your best shot is to buy a cheap sound card capable of Dolby Digital Live or DTS - check what your heaphones / sound system support.
Unfortunately PC support for optical is a bit hit and miss because not all games support Dolby and the whole encoding the audio with Dolby Digital Live is clunky workaround. Optical works great for TV's and home entertainment systems because they all support Dolby as does DVD's and Blurays.
As I said before.......I channel my TV sound (via the phono outputs on the back of the TV) to a 5.1 teac power max system which in turn goes to my speakers, now what I'm confused about is where does this sound come from? Because the only think connecting the TV to my PC is the HDMI cable from the back of my GPU!!! So does that GPU Also channel sound??
its that simple? I only ask because I have a alienware x51r2 and adding a second sound card is a pain, can you explain how this is done via the gpu and onboard sound card
? any help would be greatly appreciated.
The CPU has support for some number of "PCI Lanes". A "lane" is basically a wire (or a wire combined with the notion of time). But talking about wires will make people's head spin. So, let's shift gears to something more common...
One PCI device is not unlike one car. But unlike a car on the freeway, many PCI devices occupy "multiple lanes". It would be as if you had a single car that happened to be wide enough to occupy 2 (or 4 or whatever) lanes wide (not long, wide).
The various slots you see on the PCI bus (typically a full size PC has 1, 2, 4 or 6 "slots" you can see). By slots you can see, I mean slots that you can plug a PCI card into. But that's not the whole story. OTHER devices located elsewhere around the machine ALSO live (consuming "space") on the PCI bus. M.2 disks are PCI devices, but they are located in 1 or 2 slots that don't appear to the user to be related to the 4 or 6 slots that you plug GPUs, etc. into. Similarly, the entire SATA bus is also (indirectly) connected to the PCI bus.
Of the slots you can plug "normal" PCI cards (those GPU & friends slots, if you will) into the longer ones allow attachment to "more" lanes. The only difference between the shorter slots and the longer ones are the number of lanes each slot can occupy.
PCI lanes allow "traffic" to travel from the card to the CPU (and back). They may be dedicated (i.e., a lane is reserved exclusively for use by the device) or shared. When they are shared (usually the case) the sharing basically means when one device is occupying a given lane then other devices that also occupy said lane can't move (i.e., can't talk).
But if you look at the CPUs themselves, one feature of that various CPU models, like clock speed, is the number of PCI lanes the CPU can "address" at the same time. So, you may have a motherboard that allows cards (and similar) to be connected in a manner that would consume, lets say 40 PCI lanes. But the CPU socket can hold both a CPU that allows up to 40 PCI connections (it can service traffic across 40 lanes) and also (in the same socket) you can put a CPU that only supports 28 or 20 or 16 PCI lanes (at the same time). Typically, the cheaper CPUs have:
A GTX970 will use 16 PCI lanes if it can. Failing that, it will change how it communicates so as only to use 8 lanes. If you add another GPU now you have placed demands on the CPU (and motherboard) so that you need 24 or 32 PCI lanes available (in the CPU and on the motherboard). If one GPU is forced to communicate using only 8 PCI lanes then the second GPU (in SLI, etc.) will ALSO be restricted to using a maximum of 8 lanes. ...and when they use fewer lanes performance suffers (at least as it relates to communication, which tends to be a primary factor).
So, to figure out how the various PCI devices (not just cards) inter-relate wrt saturating the PCI bus (just as a freeway gets clogged with traffic) you have to know how many lanes a given device wants, how many it minimally needs, what the performance implications are when it is forced to use fewer lanes than it wants to, how the lanes are consumed as you populate the various devices and slots on the motherboard and how that mates to the CPU's functionality.
For all practical purposes you're only going to run into trouble between a sound card and a GPU if you have a "OEM" designed system (like a Dell or HP box that you've added stuff too) that was designed to only support the tight constraints that the OEM provider ships the box with. For example, if you bought a cheap "full size" PC from Dell (or whomever) and when you bought that machine Dell (or whomever) never provided any "customization" option that let you add a second GPU, etc. Then, it's possible that that OEM also cut corners wrt motherboard design (or CPU selection) such that the machine doesn't have any (or enough) spare capacity wrt unused PCI lanes.
On the other hand, if you put together a PC from Asus or Gigabyte or whomever, those motherboards tend to be designed so as to maximize the various configuration options (since the motherboard manufacturer can't know what you're going to do with their board). The motherboards like this will all have documentation about their PCI bus layout (and you should learn to pay attention to that when purchasing the board). Similarly, when you purchase a CPU all by itself you need to consider the number of PCI lanes it can support (just as you consider cache, clock, socket, etc.).
When it comes to custom systems you'll tend not to have problems until you build a machine with multiple GPUs or other configurations that tend to populate all or most of the card slots. ...and you need to pay attention to the CPU model you choose when doing so...
curveto that was a brilliant explanation of pci lanes. as u said, higher end enthusiast mobos have many many lanes and this is to allow a multi gpu config and still run them at the 16x speed, thats why when u sli or crossfire a lower end board you will get 8x 8x or 8x4x4x for tri sli, newer chipsets (ie x79 x99 in particular) have a full 40 lanes dedicated solely for gpu use at 16x16x8 that interconnects directly with the cpu which makes that statement of lagging a graphics card a true but not true statement, if u have a older computer yes its very possible if u have a newer generation computer you really shouldnt have to worry about it and if your in that crowd that likes to push things to the limit(like i do) then u would be getting a higher end board anyway and wouldnt have to even think about it, again curveto brilliant explanation...if i could give you a ribbon i would
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