A question for all Vista users

[split]

Just need a yes or no to both questions.
If you right click on your speaker Icon > Recording devices up pops a box.
What do you see in this box Do you see "What U Hear" OR "Stereo Mix"? (It's What U hear on Creative cards)
It hides by default, so you have to show hidden devices as below.

Then go to the Microphone tab then it's either Custom or Levels depending on your sound card and do you have a Mic boost?

That shouldn't take you long, now just say what sound card you have, and do you by chance know what drivers you used?

Thanks

EDIT for clarity

1: Do you have "What U Hear" (creative) "Stereo Mix" (other cards) yes or no?

2: Do you have a mic boost option?

3: What card do you use?

If you know the drivers, that would be great!

 

[Rebelius]

X-Fi Fatal1ty:
- Auxiliary 2 - just General, Levels, Advanced tabs
- Line-In/Mic 2 - as above, doesn't have mic boost, just General, Levels, Advanced tabs
- Microphone - As above, but with additional Custom tab with Microphone +20dB Boost

- "What U Hear"

Creative drivers 6.0.1.1304 dated 25/10/2007 (there's probably newer ones, but these work)

SoundMax Integrated Digital HD Audio (Asus P5K Premium)
- Microphone - Tabs for General, Custom [Mic Boost, FP Mic], Levels, Mic Enhancements [Voice Enhance, Speakerphone, Directional beam], Advanced

- Stereo Mix

AnalogDevices driver 6.10.2.6180 dated 03/04/2007 - I don't use the onboard audio much, since I've got the X-Fi.


edit:
1 yes
2 yes
3 XFi Fatal1ty
Creative 6.0.1.1304

1 yes
2 yes
3 Soundmax onboard (P5K Premium)
AnalogDevices 6.10.2.6180

 

[split]

Any further Questions?
your questions weren't very clear - maybe you should number your yes/no questions at the bottom of the post?

The questions seemed to get lost showing how to show the devices so I shall edit it.
It's basically

1: Do you have "What U Hear" (creative) "Stereo Mix" (other cards) yes or no?

2: Do you have a mic boost option?

3: What card do you use?

If you know the drivers, that would be great!

Thanks Rebelius, great answer

 

[marc2003]

audigy2, what u hear is there by default. i don't have a microphone.

even though i only have an audigy2 card, i'm using x-fi drivers because the sound quality is much better (go figure )....

DriverVer=09/20/2007, 6.0.01.1303

 

[Matteysan]

1: Do you have "What U Hear" (creative) "Stereo Mix" (other cards) yes or no? Yes

2: Do you have a mic boost option? Yes

3: What card do you use? Audigy 2

Driver Version : 6.0.1.1241

I think they are the newest ones that are on windows update, haven't been to the creative page yet.


How much difference is there between the the 2 drivers marc?

 

[split]

I don't suppose many people look in this forum hence the poor response, but thanks those that have
I may hotlink it this thread to the general forum.

The reason I want this info....I use "What U Hear" or "Stereo Mix" a lot.
For my sins I read quizzes on-line and I want music and voice at the same time. (no I don't sing)
I get asked by many people who use the program I do...what soundcard is best in Vista?
You don't need a good soundcard to do this, but this mix thing is getting hard to find.
Creative have removed it from the newer drivers on some cards.

I found the best card for it was the SB Live, but that has issues in Vista with more than 2 gigs or ram with the drivers someone made (these) so I was looking to see what cards you people use in Vista that may still have it.
It's not on this card if you use the new drivers, and the older ones have no mic boost...You can hack the boost in the registry though.

Laptop sound cards are even more of a problem. Dell hasn't had mix for ages and people complained so the made a new driver...thing is when you set mix by default you have to reboot, and then you can't control the mic volume!
Thinking...maybe I should hotlink this thread to laptop forums as well.

 

[marc2003]

How much difference is there between the the 2 drivers marc?

when i first installed the proper audidy2 drivers, it just didn't sound right to me at all. i have a relatively crappy mini hifi system connected to my pc and i'm no audiophile..... but i really could notice that music playback sounds really flat with the audigy drivers. if i hadn't found using x-fi drivers worked, i would have gone back to xp. that's how bad the sound was. but not everybody notices it? i know from reading on the creative forums, loads of people are using the audigy drivers with their audigy cards?? but to me, the difference is night and day.

 

[Matteysan]

Thanks i guess i will check them out see if i notice any difference, i also have a poor hi-fi. I've noticed it sounds a lot different compared to when i was using xp.