Possible? 2 sound cards at once

Massive Attack · 17 Oct 2006 at 00:03

hi guys,

was just wondering is it possible to use 2 sound cards at once like the onboard for seperate speakers and say a creative x-fi at the same time, would there be any driver conflicts or anything?

cheers

james.miller · 17 Oct 2006 at 00:05

yeah it shouldn't be a problem really. most applications have options to choose which sound card you want to use. my voip phone installs as a usb soundcard and it doesnt conflict with my x-mystique at all, and my onboard never did either thinking about it

silversurfer · 17 Oct 2006 at 00:10

Sounds about right, indivual applications can choose which sound to use Ive found. When I put in a sound card I had to go round changing all the indivual settings from one to the other, till then it was still outputting on the old onboard sound even though some sounds were coming out the other card

Massive Attack · 17 Oct 2006 at 15:21

cheers guys

wizardmaxx · 17 Oct 2006 at 15:24

What u going for 16.2 surround sound

akirru · 17 Oct 2006 at 17:39

wizardmaxx said:
What u going for 16.2 surround sound

Hey probably wants his headphones in one? and his speakers in the other?

:confused:

Greenlizard0 · 18 Oct 2006 at 09:19

Tell us how this get's on?

I have an X-fi card as well - and I found that it didn't like me to use onboard sound :confused:

this_is_gav · 18 Oct 2006 at 10:24

Because of 1 game crashing on my Audigy 4 Pro, I leave the onboard (Realtek HD) enabled on my ASUS A8R32-MVP. Works a treat, so long as you remember to switch devices first.

I leave the headphones plugged into the Realtek permanently too.

No idea how for instace 2 Creatives would work together, but different brands would normally be OK.

Schnippzle · 18 Oct 2006 at 11:47

I used to run my onboard sound as well as my Audigy 2 zs. Used the Audigy for speakers and my onboard sound for headphones when I was mixing with Virtual DJ

Was a lot of fun....but there were some conflicts which meant I had to do disable my onboard sound almost whenever I wanted to play games.

Massive Attack · 18 Oct 2006 at 20:35

yeah i was just wondering if this will work as i want my 7.1 kit and some headphones working aswell, thanks for all the info, i would have replied sooner but i got suspended :rolleyes: