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Sound problem persists even after new sound card
As some of you might remember, a few weeks ago I had a problem with sound after I built a new PC and kept my old Win 7 installation using sysprep: Onboard sound issue with new PC build. The problem was that the volume levels were off, and instead of having a normal flatline volume were you could hear everything clearly at a good volume level, certain sounds were too quiet to hear and others were deafening. I came to this forum and after a few responses I decided to do a fresh installation of windows, which only did a little to help the particular sound problem. Figuring it was a problem with the onboard sound, I bought this: ASUS XONAR_DG Xonar DG Sound Card - Newegg.com.
After I installed the sound card, the volume problem persisted and was pretty much exactly the same as before. Thankfully this time though, there was a setting in the device's audio center called "SVN", which is smart volume. This setting actually did fix the problem a little, and the sound was a lot closer to how I remember it being on my old HP pavilion. SVN is not without it's own problems, though. Now there's clicking noises, audio drop outs, stuttering, and general low quality with that setting on. What's more, in most games I've played, the voices are hard to hear and tend to be drowned out by music or background noise.
Even though these problems sound bad, it's more tolerable than it is with the SVN settings off. Without that setting, the volume issue goes right back to how it was before I installed the sound card. Some might say I'm picky but I know something is wrong with the sound, it's not at all like it was on my old PC which had perfect sound.
I am very, very frustrated with this whole thing, there has got to be something I'm missing. The sound card has nothing to do with the onboard sound, correct? It is a separate sound device on it's own, so why does it have the same exact audio issues as the onboard sound? It should be fine without having to turn SVN on, so what's the deal? Is it my headphones? I can't imagine what's causing this, and if there is no solution I'm prepared to give up and deal with it.
Last edited by Twario; 10 Mar 2013 at 19:19.