AtariYoungin Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 My computer is currently running 2 soundcards, a SoundBlaster 5.1 Platinum with LiveDrive! and the built in nForce2 6.1 surround. Is there any way I could get these to run simotaniusly without them stepping all over eachother? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixellated Ghost Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 I did this years ago on a system that was running OS/2. Doesn't matter what OS your are using, as long as you can set both cards to use different IO ports, IRQs, and DMAs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariYoungin Posted May 4, 2004 Author Share Posted May 4, 2004 they like to steal drivers from eachother :/. And is there any way to pass through the cards? Like somethign coming into the SoundBlaster sent to the nForce board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsukasa Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 You'd need alot of memory/cpu power to run two soundcards at once. Not sure about sending stuff to other cards, but you could connect a cable between the mic input of one and the speaker output of the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariYoungin Posted May 5, 2004 Author Share Posted May 5, 2004 got 512 and a AMD 3200+ . I was hopin for something more internal. And that dosn't help the drivers :/ Any other idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vb_master Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 What ARE you trying to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariYoungin Posted May 5, 2004 Author Share Posted May 5, 2004 get both my sound cards to work at once. Has nothing to do with my other project. Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 I am not just shure what is your problem. Using a "todays" PC makes it possible to use Soundcards parallel until your ears are bleeding You can set one Soundcard as "primary device" that will be used on all Windows applications by standard. Programs like Winamp are able to use a separate device. Sou you can run Winamp multiple at the same time using all connected soundcards at the same time. Some problems will occure when using more than one Soundcard of the same type and they don't support cascading, because they will use the same driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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