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windows sound property, something i've been wondering all my life.

post #1 of 6
8/20/06 at 10:04pm
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what the heck does this do?
this is one of the advance setting window for your sound card you can access to from "sound and audio devices property" from control panel.


i guess it has to do with the kmixer people want to bypass. but what does specificly each off the three choices do? good, inbetween and best.

i dont think you can go asio or kernal stream in video game or desktop sound. so maybe these effect their performance?
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post #2 of 6
8/20/06 at 11:15pm
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Originally Posted by terrymx
what the heck does this do?
this is one of the advance setting window for your sound card you can access to from "sound and audio devices property" from control panel.


i guess it has to do with the kmixer people want to bypass. but what does specificly each off the three choices do? good, inbetween and best.

i dont think you can go asio or kernal stream in video game or desktop sound. so maybe these effect their performance?
My understanding of it is that lowering the hardware acceleration "sluffs" off some of the proccessing from the soundcard or chip if on-board and puts the "work" on the CPU when applicable. Used mostly for trouble shooting soundcard problems. Yes , in games to lower the acceleration , it can clear up driver problems at the cost of sound quality is my experience. Why not leave the bottom slider on best though ? I have'nt thought of this stuff in years , I would also be interested in a better reply than my own LOL.
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post #3 of 6
8/21/06 at 12:11am
Long time ago, sound drivers were quite buggy. It was common to slide it to "None" and one may end up with more reliable and faster performance with certain applications.

Now days, the drivers are much better and the sound hardware offsets a lot more work. In fact, sound demands more computing power than ever, especially with 3D effects and enivronmental noise shaping. Moving the slider from "Full" will usually removes features and reduce both quality and performance. With most entry-level soundcards I have tested with, the hardware won't work well at all unless its set to "Full". You can try setting it to None and see how much slower your computer run, espeically navigating through the desktop with the desktop sounds turned on. My computer wil hiccup almost every time it makes a sound when I click the mouse.
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post #4 of 6
8/21/06 at 8:17am
One day people will actually read post, notice highlighted areas and answer the question asked... but not today
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post #5 of 6
8/21/06 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by Solude
One day people will actually read post, notice highlighted areas and answer the question asked... but not today
LOL, we could pay attention to the what the original poster is actually asking, but would that be the Head-fi way??

This has to do with the resampling algorithms used by kmixer. Usually, we want to avoid giving kmixer anything it needs to resample to begin with when it comes to music listening. So if we are successful in that regard, then the resampling quality of kmixer becomes a moot point. But if you are using your computer for gaming, multimedia, etc. it is probably best to set this to "Best", and get the best resampling quality that kmixer is capable of. For any recent processor, I don't think it is going to be that much of a load.

These choices have nothing to do with what mode of output (DirectSound, ASIO, etc.) you are using. It is more a case of, *if* you are using DirectSound, and *if* the stream needs to be resampled by kmixer (due to multiple streams of different sample rates, or a sample rate that your sound card does not support), then do you want to use the faster resampling method, or the slower, better one? It should probably say "Crappy" and "Decent" instead of "Good" and "Best", but everything is relative I guess.
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post #6 of 6
8/21/06 at 2:47pm
About Audio Hardware Acceleration:




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