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MagicSound PCI DR-SW501 Sound Card
Submitted by Anonymous on 2000-06-01 12:00:00 This product has a rating of 5 out of 5 running under Windows 2000 Comments: Correction and addendums to earlier result for this card, which probably apply to all sound cards (and integrated motherboard sound) based on Aureal 8810, 8820, 8830 chipsets: Do not install A3D drivers after installing Windows 2000 drivers; A3D 3.12 drivers are for Windows 9x only and will not work properly under Windows 2000. Windows 2000 usually overwrites some driver files after re-boot, so manual driver file re-installation is usually required. Audio card hardware acceleration, accessed through 'Control Panel-Sounds and Multimedia-Audio-Sound Playback-Preferred Device-Aureal Audio-Advanced-Performance-Audio Playback-Hardware Acceleration' slider, must be set to Full instead of the Windows 2000 default setting of Standard to enable Aureal 3D (A3D) effects to work properly without system instability like 'Blue Screen of Death'. |