Hi all

I have been having a rather odd sound related question recently on my PC. Basically when I first put my PC together the original soundcard was a £10 creative cheapo thing. When I was using it the sound level used to fluctuate rather violently during music (The louder the music, the more obvious). Anyway, I decided it was probably the soundcard so got a new one (well I wanted one anyway ) and was hoping the problem would sort itself out. I should probably add that when listening to music through my headphones that are in the mobos onboard sound socket the problem doesnt occur...

However.... my new (2 month old now...) soundcard which is a Xfi Xtreme Audio (the not quite Xfi model) still has the same problem. But I have managed to narrow down the cause of it.

Basically I can move speakers up to max (on the manual control on the speakers), put application volume up to max (usually itunes) and put the vista volume control down to like 10% and this stops the problem. However it occurs worse vice versa when vista volume is maxed and speaker volume is lowered. So i can only assume the vista volume control is making my volume fluctuate wildly..

Hopefully that made some sort of sense, I cant really be sure it did because it is rather higgldepigglde

So has anyone got any ideas for fixes????

Thanks.

check via directX diag which is in the windows system folder
it should give you a complete check on the sound system and drivers installed …

Auto sound levelling switched on in the media player you are using?

Drivers are up to date.



didnt know you could do it in individual media players, ill try it now and see how it goes. (I have tried it in Vista itself to no avail).

I have a similar issue using the XFi Xtreme Audio (rebranded Audigy). If the volume in Windows XP (and the application e.g. Media Player) is anything above around 15% the audio coming out of the speakers is horribe. I've got some pretty good speakers too. The sounds is just all over the place.

Traditionally I would have the volume control in XP on 100% and physically adjust the speaker volume accordingly. Depending on if I was gaming, listen to music , etc I just give the knob a little twizzle

Now I have to set XP to around 15% max and turn the speakers right up to the level preferred. I've tried everything but cannot find out what's going on.