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    E1505 sound

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jkloorbaspo2, Mar 30, 2007.

  1. jkloorbaspo2

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    You have to pay $20-25 to get the Soundblaster drivers, which give you some software enhancements that some a re very happy with, some are not.

    In fact, some games have issues with one driver that are solved with the other, and vice versa.

    Sorry, not a very informative answer. I'd say: unless you see issues, stick with what you've got.
     
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    Actually, I was asking because I just got Unreal Tournament 2004.. and there's a weird problem.
    I have external speakers - Logitech X230 - and there was static in the background when I play UT2K4. However, when I unplug the external speakers, no sound comes out of my laptop speakers... So I was looking at upgrading my driver.
     
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    No sound out of the laptop... from the game or from anything? There's a setting in the advance volume control that mute's the "PC Speakers". It might be toggled. (I keep mine toggled by default... E1505 speakers suck) That's your fix if there's no sound from anything when you have no external speakers plugged in.
     
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    It just happens with Unreal Tournament. I also have to jack up the volume pretty high to hear stuff on my speakers, and there's a real annoying static sound in the background. When I end the UT2004.exe process it stops and music/noise/whatever can come out of my laptop speakers or externals and the static stops.
     
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