Re: Oblivion at CES -- looking hotter than before

"Highlandish" <ckreskay_CURSEING@xxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>Quoth The Raven; Xocyll <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> in
><omc5s1589orbudltjtd5mdc6162knqvs6d@xxxxxxx>
>> "Highlandish" <ckreskay_CURSEING@xxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading
>> the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the
>> signs say:
>>
>>>Quoth The Raven; Mean_Chlorine <mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
>>><pa94s1hdgltnnko976m1s94mfrjnctttq5@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Thusly Xocyll <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Spake Unto All:
>>>>
>>>>>I'd think the easiest way to do the speakers/headphones swap would
>>>>>be to buy an extension cord and run it up next to the monitor.
>>>>
>>>> Seconded.
>>>>
>>>> As an aside, it's absolutely ridiculous that soundcards may have 4-5
>>>> output connectors, but only one of the type the average gamer will
>>>> ever use, so most of us end up having to plug/unplug every time we
>>>> want to change between headphone & speakers. Utter silliness.
>>>
>>>I bought an audigy2, you'd think it would have a headset plug, but
>>>all its got are the speaker outputs and a mike input, but the speaker
>>>outputs are already taken by my 4.1 speaker setup. sure I can use rca
>>>double adapters, but I still want to use voice chat on a separate
>>>channel from the speakers, and I discovered I can only do that with
>>>the official front panel that you can only get if you buy the
>>>platinum package, or from creative themselves if you live in the UK,
>>>but not any other region. grrrrrrrr. if I could get a part number for
>>>the FP I might have better luck locating one though
>>
>> Well that's the "official" way.
>> An alternate way would be to slot in a second cheap soundcard and have
>> it used only by teamspeak.
>> Don't need all the whizbang features of the latest cards when it's
>> only being used for speech.
>>
>> Way back when, under win95b with .vxd drivers that couldn't play two
>> sounds simultaneously (unless they were the from the same game/app) I
>> ran an awe64 and a basic soundblaster clone in the same machine with
>> the output of the one routed through the input of the other, but it
>> could easily have been routed to headphones instead.
>> Sure Creative said it wasn't possible to do it, but I did it anyway
>> (the not-possible bit was because a certain port was hardwired and
>> guaranteed to conflict - didn't actually cause any problems.)
>>
>> And thus I was able to have winamp playing .mp3s as my background
>> music in Diablo.
>>
>> Xocyll
>
>this mobo has an onboard nforce4 soundcard maybe I should configure that, if
>I can.

That should work just fine.
My father does something similar - he has both his old PCI128 card in
the system as well as the _better_ onboard sound.
I would have done the same except there's a flaw with my motherboard and
the output jack is buggered up - only get stereo sound when the jack is
part way in, once it's fully socketed in, there's sound on one side
only.

You should be able to set windows to route all stuff through the
existing card, but configure team speak to only use the onboard.

Xocyll
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