Woah, the new WinXP Santa Cruz drivers are GREAT!

[Brian48]

I'm refering to the ones that was posted a little while back (v4161s). Decided to dust off the old SC in the closet and reinstalled it into my main box. Almost (almost) all the gaming issues I had with it are gone. Admittedly, my Audigy is still a little better in the gaming department, but the music/.mp3 playback is as superb as ever. The guess the Santa Cruz is gonna stick around in my main box for a little while longer. My point is, if you haven't tried the new drivers yet, do so. You won't be disappointed.

 

[xpander]

true man...
they are def improved!

 

[joohang]

<< I'm refering to the ones that was posted a little while back (v4161s). Decided to dust off the old SC in the closet and reinstalled it into my main box. Almost (almost) all the gaming issues I had with it are gone. Admittedly, my Audigy is still a little better in the gaming department, but the music/.mp3 playback is as superb as ever. The guess the Santa Cruz is gonna stick around in my main box for a little while longer. My point is, if you haven't tried the new drivers yet, do so. You won't be disappointed. >>


Why not just plug both of them in the same machine?

 

[Adul]

at least turtle beach updates thier drivers regularly. ahem creative

 

[Brian48]

<< Why not just plug both of them in the same machine? >>



I actually did that at one time, but it was a pain in the ass to have to reach around and unplug/plug the speakers jacks into each sound card every time I wanted to use one or the other. I didn't have any problems with driver conflicts because I used dual hardware configurations under Windows and only one sound card was detected at a time, however some of my apps would get confused and try to use one sound card while the other was enabled. In the end, it was just too much of a headache for what it was worth. Kept the Audigy in for awhile 'cause I played alot of games, but lately, I've been using my PC more as jukebox rather than gaming so the Santa Cruz went back in.