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Here’s the situation:
About 6 weeks ago I built a new system, found the onboard Realtek sound more than a little anaemic so I salvaged the 10 year old Sound Blaster Z from my old PC and parked it the bottom PCI slot of a Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite AX underneath the Sapphire 7900XTX (Vapor X). All ran fine until today when playing Baldur’s Gate 3, when the dialogue began to come out of the wrong speakers, some of the dialogue sounded like the teacher from Charlie Brown and sound effects were being misdirected too.
I tried a couple of other games and found I was getting harsh buzzing noises in Starfield as well as the sounds being in the wrong “place”.
is this likely to be:
a) dying sound card
b) interference from the GPU
c) a software problem
d) motherboard related?
It’s run perfectly for 6 weeks until today. I update Windows 10 Pro manually as I don’t trust automatic updates and I didn’t do anything today either. I turned the onboard sound back on but as this refuses to use my 5.1 speakers and is stereo only, this isn’t an acceptable permanent option. Before I lash out on a new sound card, I want to make sure it’s not GPU interference that a new card won’t fix.
Any ideas, suggestions or solutions?
About 6 weeks ago I built a new system, found the onboard Realtek sound more than a little anaemic so I salvaged the 10 year old Sound Blaster Z from my old PC and parked it the bottom PCI slot of a Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite AX underneath the Sapphire 7900XTX (Vapor X). All ran fine until today when playing Baldur’s Gate 3, when the dialogue began to come out of the wrong speakers, some of the dialogue sounded like the teacher from Charlie Brown and sound effects were being misdirected too.
I tried a couple of other games and found I was getting harsh buzzing noises in Starfield as well as the sounds being in the wrong “place”.
is this likely to be:
a) dying sound card
b) interference from the GPU
c) a software problem
d) motherboard related?
It’s run perfectly for 6 weeks until today. I update Windows 10 Pro manually as I don’t trust automatic updates and I didn’t do anything today either. I turned the onboard sound back on but as this refuses to use my 5.1 speakers and is stereo only, this isn’t an acceptable permanent option. Before I lash out on a new sound card, I want to make sure it’s not GPU interference that a new card won’t fix.
Any ideas, suggestions or solutions?