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Laptop gaming sound problems
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Posted by: anttipi
I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 8830 with 2,66 GHz, 512 RAM, VIA AC'97 integrated sound card and Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics.
I'm having sound problems: in games like Pro Evolution Soccer 3, Nascar Racing 2003 and Colin McRae 4, the game sometimes freezes for a fraction of a second. This only happens in connection with certain individual sounds (like a referee blowing a whistle etc.) but not very often and not in any systematic way.
Is the VIA AC'97 to blame (eating too much CPU power and slowing the frame rates perhaps)? Will an external sound card fix this? What other solutions are there? I wouldn't want to buy a new sound card because I don't need 3D sound or ultra-low-noise-hifi audio. I've already tried lowering graphics settings.
Posted by: Antti2004
Integrated (onboard) sound is never as good separate sound card, what ever one tries to do. I had problem with same sound chip on 'tower' PC and tried to get help from different part of the world, so the only cure was to buy PCI sound card, of cause in your case with laptop it will be difficult. You could try to 'tweek' your Windows OS on your laptop, but...
Posted by: armystud0911
In the same way that a video card needs to render visual, a sound card needs to render its sound so to speak. However, I have never heard of it slowing framerates down, every time I have seen it, (or heard it rather) is when I was playing a game that used intensive positional sound rendering, but the result was that it simply skipped over certain sounds.
Posted by: anttipi
I've thought about getting an Echo Indigo PCMCIA card which according to all the tests I've found on the web should be top notch. The only problem is the price. I've already tweaked my XP for gaming.
According to benchmarks, the Echo Indigo card slows down the frame rate a little bit more (a few frames) than a regular integrated laptop sound card. So if it's the excessive CPU load that is currently making my sound card malfunction, surely it can't be fixed with a card that uses even more CPU power? Perhaps the drivers are just better etc.? Anyway, as Antti2004 (Finnish relations? ) mentioned, his sound problems were solved by a new sound card so maybe that's the way to go for me.
Posted by: Antti2004
Terve terve, hope you speek finnish too?
Posted by: anttipi
Tottahan toki!
Posted by: Antti2004
No niin
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