Re: Sound issues
The kX Project drivers are great if you are interested in sound quality for music-listening, but the kX drivers are garbage if you're interested in games. It's really just for people who want to run ASIO and or utilize many of the digital-outs the card CAN have. Sound is SO jacked up in games using those drivers. I know because I've been using them on my system for years. I switched to the Windows drivers recently, just so WoW would sound good. Otherwise, there are all kinds of positional problems and some sounds you don't hear at all or some are very loud compared to others.
Most of the problems I have seen occur over the years with the Live! series are caused by XP and it's IRQ sharing bs. I have never had any of these problems with my Live!, but have fixed problems on other systems by installing Windows XP with no ACPI. This may be a good idea in your brothers' case, anyway since it increases performance (including framerates) in games. But you lose things like Hibernation or the ability to shut the system down your computer without touching the power button. If your brother is an extreme gamer, he shouldn't care about sacrificing those things, though.
The kX Project drivers are great if you are interested in sound quality for music-listening, but the kX drivers are garbage if you're interested in games. It's really just for people who want to run ASIO and or utilize many of the digital-outs the card CAN have. Sound is SO jacked up in games using those drivers. I know because I've been using them on my system for years. I switched to the Windows drivers recently, just so WoW would sound good. Otherwise, there are all kinds of positional problems and some sounds you don't hear at all or some are very loud compared to others.
Most of the problems I have seen occur over the years with the Live! series are caused by XP and it's IRQ sharing bs. I have never had any of these problems with my Live!, but have fixed problems on other systems by installing Windows XP with no ACPI. This may be a good idea in your brothers' case, anyway since it increases performance (including framerates) in games. But you lose things like Hibernation or the ability to shut the system down your computer without touching the power button. If your brother is an extreme gamer, he shouldn't care about sacrificing those things, though.
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