Could It Be My Sound Card? - Page 3

SpiritWarrior · 09-21-2006, 07:43 PM

Well, sometimes when the sound is on it can knock my FPS down a few, if I disable sound the FPS goes up. I'd just like to have it anywhere but in the same IRQ as my videocard...since gaming requires both of these things it can't be good to tax an intergrated device at the same time in the same IRQ. Perhaps I could change my vidcard IRQ then?

Zebodog · 09-21-2006, 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by SpiritWarrior:
Well, sometimes when the sound is on it can knock my FPS down a few, if I disable sound the FPS goes up. I'd just like to have it anywhere but in the same IRQ as my videocard...since gaming requires both of these things it can't be good to tax an intergrated device at the same time in the same IRQ. Perhaps I could change my vidcard IRQ then?

The frame rate drop is due to the extra processing that your CPU is doing to make all those sounds. With onboard sound, the CPU takes care of all the processing duties related to audio.

Unless you have the option of changing your video card to a different slot, you won't find much success in attempting to change the IRQ. Again, don't poke the bear! If it's working fine be happy! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Albromor · 09-21-2006, 10:17 PM

SpiritWarrior, when I was doing heavy research on my new build one thing that was consistently pointed out to me and through my reading was that onboard sound does the very thing that you are trying to correct: It will slow down your framerates.

I disabled the onboard sound and bought me a soundcard for this very reason.

SpiritWarrior · 09-22-2006, 02:12 AM

Yeah I know of this about onboard, I have an old SBlive soundcard around somewhere but haven't put it in yet. This onboard isn't horribly bad in games or anything, there is just a slight drop in FPS sometimes. I wondered if changing the IRQ's would help is all.

09-21-2006, 07:43 PM	#21
SpiritWarrior Jack Burton Join Date: May 31, 2002 Location: Ireland Posts: 5,854	Well, sometimes when the sound is on it can knock my FPS down a few, if I disable sound the FPS goes up. I'd just like to have it anywhere but in the same IRQ as my videocard...since gaming requires both of these things it can't be good to tax an intergrated device at the same time in the same IRQ. Perhaps I could change my vidcard IRQ then? __________________ Still I feel like a child when I look at the moon, maybe I grew up a little too soon...

09-22-2006, 02:12 AM	#24
SpiritWarrior Jack Burton Join Date: May 31, 2002 Location: Ireland Posts: 5,854	Yeah I know of this about onboard, I have an old SBlive soundcard around somewhere but haven't put it in yet. This onboard isn't horribly bad in games or anything, there is just a slight drop in FPS sometimes. I wondered if changing the IRQ's would help is all. __________________ Still I feel like a child when I look at the moon, maybe I grew up a little too soon...

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09-21-2006, 10:17 PM	#23
Albromor Mephistopheles Join Date: June 13, 2001 Location: Northfield, NJ USA Posts: 1,417	SpiritWarrior, when I was doing heavy research on my new build one thing that was consistently pointed out to me and through my reading was that onboard sound does the very thing that you are trying to correct: It will slow down your framerates. I disabled the onboard sound and bought me a soundcard for this very reason.

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