Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 22:35

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0460 is XtremeMusic and it should work with these drivers: https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/ or with retail drivers. I have no other ideas on how to remotely troubleshoot the issue, maybe it would be good to know the complete Hardware ID.

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Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 14:09

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Oops, it is an HP OEM card; I was under the impression that daniel k's drivers work with all cards. Unpack daniel k's driver, go to Audio\Setup\ and replace support.cab with the one from the archive below. Alternatively, you may try HP drivers. source: https://web.archive.org/web/20090602091512/ …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-11-01, 12:17

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I have started Elden Ring; great game, it feels the same way Gothic did when I played it for the first time. The game is huge, I am 30 hours in and barely passed the first boss. It is still a souls game at its core, although very accessible.

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Re: Nvidia adaptergate

Posted on 2022-11-01, 01:38

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nvidia is hard at work destroying consumer demand in video card space, through a combination of high prices, defective products and terrible SKU naming (4080 12 gb comes to mind). I am concerned that AMD will fight very hard to snatch defeat from the claws of victory and will launch an equally …

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Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-10-31, 10:29

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It is a full card, I also have one of those and it works well. Have a look at daniel k’s drivers for painless usage / instalation.

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Re: Advice on new graphics card

Posted on 2022-10-30, 11:43

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If you need a cost effective card for compute and 1200p, you may consider a 3060 / 3060 ti with 12 gb of VRAM. 12 gb is reasonably enough for StableDifusion and other ESRGAN models; Ampere cards are fast enough in rasterizing / RTX. The 3060 power consumption is low and will run adequately most …

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Re: Sunsetting support for Windows 7 / 8.1 in early 2023 for Chrome

Posted on 2022-10-26, 18:24

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I expected such news, yet it is upsetting. Getting locked out of one's games collection is annoying, moreso when this happens due to discretionary decisions of Valve - to deny access to those with Windows XP, and now - Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 This is why I stopped buying digital games. We traded …

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Re: Some recyclers are penny wise and pound foolish

Posted on 2022-10-24, 08:32

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There is a cost of ordering / handling on the seller side; for low volume / low cost items it may not make sense to sell it for less.

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Re: Best old MP3 player for Win 9x/XP ?

Posted on 2022-10-22, 23:22

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i am using foobar 2000 since 2001 / 2002 and never looked back. It is simply a perfect piece of software; I am a heavy user of Replaygain / Binaural to Stereo for headphone listening (to prevent fatigue) and could not find those in any other good music player.

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Re: How to install and run vanilla Half-Life 2 without Steam

Posted on 2022-10-16, 21:41

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but I cannot update the library at all Importing appmanifest file to Steam library folder, with optional editing, should work fine. i do not know how to do that, nor have i ever seen any guides. i have many games; finding the steamid manually and importing them one by one is not doable. anyway, the …

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Re: 478 vs 775 insurrection

Posted on 2022-10-04, 17:19

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LGA 775 boards with AGP are still available, with reasonable prices. You can cover very late DOS / Windows 98 / Windows XP with such a build. With a DX9 video card, Windows 7 would be available as well. My only concern for a 478 board is that good quality coolers are very rare, as opposed to LGA 775 …

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Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2022-09-09, 21:11

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I finished Demon Souls (50 hrs) / Dark Souls ( 80hrs) / Dark Souls 2 (120 hrs). All my backlog is now cancelled - I feel I can't play any other games. I am now playing Dark Souls 3, slowly and methodically; Elden Ring is next. I can't believe I have waited so long to play these amazing games.

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Re: Indonesian government blocks Steam, Yahoo, and PayPal. What is the safest VPN to access PayPal?

Posted on 2022-08-01, 18:53

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just change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 or other service.

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-07-01, 20:45

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4.4 sounds to my ears as a subtle improvement on 4.3; I had to focus to hear a difference. About 4.4 - Bass is clearer; the preset sounds brighter and closer to reference. I have no more feedback on tuning, other that I feel there is still headroom to amplify the mids - not by a lot, though The …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-06-30, 15:30

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I have spent some time with all presets 2.2 / 3.0 / 4.3 and the reference file from Soundclound. All were loudness normalized, so that my preference would not be influenced by the piece that is the loudest. I have focused only on E1M1. The differences between the presets themselves are cleary …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-06-30, 06:21

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Is there a reference recording for Sound Canvas? It would be good to use it when comparing. If not, I will search for one online and get to a/b testing later in the week.

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2022-06-28, 22:31

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The pcmidi addon is a different purchase, or is it included in the 90 eur initial cost? (Availability issues notwithstanding)

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-06-28, 22:11

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I will test double blind 2.2 and 3.0, later this week. Subjectively, I like more the boomier sound of 2.2, but I will know for sure after testing. It would be good to have the reference sc55 audio, but it would need to be at the same volume/loudness, ideally a digital output, in order to focus only …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2022-06-28, 21:42

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Doom sounds very tight on the above recording, I may pull the plug on buying x2gs. Two questions: is the preset available? What is x3e and how is it different compared to x2gs?

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Re: Best 128gb compact flash card

Posted on 2022-05-23, 09:04

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Do you have a link for the adapter in the above pictures?

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