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    Couple of sound driver related questions

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ravenmorpheus, Mar 27, 2008.

  1. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Ok so I have XP and Vista dual booting on my laptop and I have a couple of audio related questions.

    It has a Realtek High Def Audio device (I'm assuming the soundcard).

    On XP I have an audio manager (Realtek) that has a graphic equaliser, on Vista the same driver (but obvioulsy the Vista version) does not have the equaliser in the audio manager but instead has a load of useless presets.

    Does anyone know of a Vista driver from Realtek that has an equaliser in the audio manager the same as the one that comes with the XP drivers?

    Second question -

    In Vista you have a sound mixer that allows you to change the volume levels of individual apps - is there anyway to get the same thing in XP?

    Thanks in advance for any advice :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Mar 27, 2008
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    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Ok so I found out that realtek have canned the 10 band graphic equalizer for Vista, doesn't matter at the mo cos I use XP more due to gaming needs.

    But has anyone got any advice on my second question?

    Thanks in advance for any help :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Mar 29, 2008
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    No suggestion for you at this point, because it really looks like Vista is SOL. You may try writing Realtek about their retard move to drop the 10-band equalizer. I suspect they probably laid off their chief programmer and replaced him with their janitor. That, or maybe they really hate Windows Vista and want people to give it up. This is the email address: [email protected]
     
    Bad Cyborg, Apr 5, 2008
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