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damerell ([personal profile] damerell) wrote2008-10-27 01:48 am

Soundcards

It seems I want a new soundcard with some hardware acceleration.

City of X, which I seem to have started playing again, doesn't have any cap on the maximum number of sounds played. In complex situations - sound on, runs like a drain. Sound off, all fine.

Currently I'm using the motherboard's AC97, which I infer is not particularly shiny. What I'm hoping one of you can tell me is this - if I want to spend a modest sum of money, like about 30 quid, is there anything I can usefully buy? I'm guessing I don't need _much_ improvement, because this only seems to affect a small number of people with ancient or basic soundcards.
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2008-10-27 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure you didn't switch software from OSS to ALSA at the same time? I thought that the single-writer limitation in OSS was inherent to the software.
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[personal profile] simont 2008-10-27 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure. I was using hand-compiled kernels as is my usual practice, and as far as I can remember I just ticked the SB Live box, recompiled and rebooted.