Why is the max volume is so low on my new santa cruz?

[theplanb]

I just upgraded my sound from on-board sound to Turtle beach santa cruz sound card.. and I noticed that the volume doesn't go high enough.. I mean for powered-speaker or headphone.. the volume doesn't go very high.
I'm using windows XP and the latest driver from Turtle beach website..

Even at the highest level, it's like about.. 1/2 or 2/3 level of on-board sound..

I uninstalled on-board sound from device manager and disabled from BIOS menu..

Something's wrong.. help..

 

[XeonTux]

What about mixer settings, are there any sliders that are hidden by default?

 

[theplanb]

I tried the control pannel mixer thingy.. I tried all the sliders.. and I don't see anything hidden..
There is this Legacy Audio driver thingy on the device manager.. do you think I should remove it? It could be used by the TV-tuner.. I don't know.

 

[ojai00]

If your modem has audio drivers, remove or disable those. I had the same problem as you. Hope this helps.

 

[Wolfsraider]

also go into audio properties and enable everthing and jack up all the volume controls to highest settings hope this helps and i heard another guy saying earlier that he had to use different drivers than turtle beaches so you may try a google search for different drivers if this don't help

sorry hope this helps🙂

 

[theplanb]

thanks ya'all..
Well, believe it or not, the frame rate halved for some unknown reason.. (from 60 to 30..) and I suspect this card.. because. nothing else has been changed.. 🙁 and I don't have a modem..

I'll try to remove old drivers if any of them are still left. Or even do the clean install..
umm, what other drivers are available.. I'll do the search...