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    how to disable srs powered premium sound?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Asgaroth, Jun 17, 2010.

  1. Asgaroth

    Asgaroth Notebook Geek

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    I don't like that thing at all. It's altering the music sound. How to disable this thing permanently.

    Thanks
     
    Asgaroth, Jun 17, 2010
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    entrance002 Notebook Consultant

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    I remember I had to go into Control Panel to disable it. However, my IDT has weird issues in that you would disable it, but then playing some sounds would re-initiate it automatically. I ended up simply uninstalling IDT entirely, as I don't really use the 5.1 function. I now simply use the auto-detected sound driver after reboot.
     
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  3. Asgaroth

    Asgaroth Notebook Geek

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    That's the thing, after reboot it's enabled again.
     
    Asgaroth, Jun 17, 2010
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    funky monk Notebook Deity

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    I remember hearing about a registry value which you could chage which would disable it at startup.
     
    funky monk, Jun 17, 2010
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    I'm the one that found the registry key. Just had to throw that out there. :p

    The key is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IDT\Apo\LFX\Speaker1\plugins\SRS and change D-WORD "Load" to 0 for off/false. No need to reboot.

    Additionally open the Sound control panel and for each playback device check "disable all enhancements".
     
    gaah, Jun 17, 2010
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    cbaty08 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for that gaah. +repped+
     
    cbaty08, Jun 17, 2010
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    entrance002 Notebook Consultant

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    That is why I uninstalled IDT Audio entirely. But you can try the other registry mods proposed here =)
    gluck!
     
    entrance002, Jun 17, 2010
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    Thanks for the solution gaah!

    To enable and disable the SRS enhancements without manually editing the registry every time, I created a couple .BAT files. They have to be "Run as Administrator" to have an effect.

    srs-audio-enable.bat:
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    REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\IDT\Apo\LFX\Speaker1\plugins\SRS /v load /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
    srs-audio-disable.bat:
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    REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\IDT\Apo\LFX\Speaker1\plugins\SRS /v load /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
     
    morganstar, Jan 6, 2011
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