Two Sound Cards On TeamSpeak!
 

Ever since I have started using TeamSpeak, I had wondered if you could use two sound cards in it, so one would use your game sound, and the other would only be for conversation with TeamSpeak, so you can only hear the player voices. So, I put a little bit of time and thought into it, and here's a step by step tutorial on how to do it yourself:

1.) Install your Sound card or enable your onboard sound.
-My motherboard (Along with many others on custom-built computers) has integrated sound. I have been using an Audigy for my game sound, so I automatically have two cards. All you have to do to get it to work is to enable it in your computer's BIOS. To start up your BIOS, hit Delete while you are at the black screen with the memory test while your computer is starting up. Then just go to "Advanced Chipset Features" and take ingegrated sound from 'disabled' (or something) to 'enabled' Thats all there is to it.

-If you have a separate sound card, you'll have to open up your case and put it in an open PCI slot (The white ones). Then close the case up.

-For both, make sure you leave everything in your main sound card WHERE IT IS! This is only for TeamSpeak, so you should only put in a pair of Headphones for the voices only.

2.) Start Windows and install the drivers.
-Turn on your computer and let it boot into windows. When you get there, a screen called 'New Hardware Found' should pop up. Put in your sound card's driver disk and tell it to search on your A: drive (If the driver is on a floppy disk) or on your CD-ROM (If the driver's on a CD) Then just hit next until you get to finish, then click that.

3.) Configure TeamSpeak
This is where the pictures come in:
Start TeamSpeak and go to the Settings menu and click on options:
[img]http://mohaa.cact-sd.org/aasigs/tut-pic1.jpg[/img]
This menu appears:
[img]http://mohaa.cact-sd.org/aasigs/tut-pic2.jpg[/img]
Then, select your secondary sound card under output device, mine is VIA Audio, then click apply:
[img]http://mohaa.cact-sd.org/aasigs/tut-pic3.jpg[/img]
Then join the server and test it out!

I know as with any hardware thing, things may go wrong, but I am sure me and other Computer savvy users (Hollywood, Rudedog) can help too. If you do encounter any problems, post them here, and if we can't help, contact your hardware's manufacturerer.

For finding a soundcard at the lowest possible price, I'd go to http://www.pricewatch.com/menus/m202.htm This is the soundcard menu. If you are not looking for the rock-bottom price, but good service my main website for computer hardware is http://www.newegg.com . It has extremely good customer service, and I'd reccomend them to anybody.

So, this quickie guide will hopefully increase your TeamSpeak expierience even more! I hope this helps you all and I can't wait to talk to you on TeamSpeak.
->Redsoccerdevil

it's little chuddy bear.
ok cool, thanx for the info red.

I had a sound blaster live x Gamer on my Me compute r and now since i have XP it says my soundcard isnt compatibile with it? Even with new drivers?

i'm going to attempt it with my SB on the game and my integrated sound on TS...i'll keep ya posted.

Oh My Fucking God Red!!!

It actually works!!!!!!

I messed with changing my headset and speaker connections between the 2 cards and fiddling with w2k's audio prefered playback/recording and out of the goddamn blue the shit worked!

Reason Im so excited is I tried for litterally hours on end when I first wondered if this was possible when we first got the server running and couldnt get it to work.

The only thing is I have my setup swapped: comp speakers are using old card and TS is using the new but Im too chickenshit to try swapping it again.

(That and I gotta get up in 4 hours for work :)

Goddamn, thanks Red for giving me enthusiam to try it one more time.

It REALLY might be as simple as telling TS what card to use.

Now Im tempted to call in sick tommorow (today) to test it out ingame lol.

W00T!

[quote="=[DOA]=VonMeyer":eefaf]I had a sound blaster live x Gamer on my Me compute r and now since i have XP it says my soundcard isnt compatibile with it? Even with new drivers?[/quote:eefaf]

I have SBlive X-gamer 5.1 and it works just fine under Xp-pro. If it's XP pro you're using check and see if u have a DMA and/or IRQ conflict. If not I could send you working drivers for it. I used the "liveware 3.0" (for win2k... or my 4 speaker setup is reduced to 2) and it works just dandy.

Want 'em just ask.

[quote="[NBK] G.I. Jerk":01ae6][quote="=[DOA]=VonMeyer":01ae6]I had a sound blaster live x Gamer on my Me compute r and now since i have XP it says my soundcard isnt compatibile with it? Even with new drivers?[/quote:01ae6]

I have SBlive X-gamer 5.1 and it works just fine under Xp-pro. If it's XP pro you're using check and see if u have a DMA and/or IRQ conflict. If not I could send you working drivers for it. I used the "liveware 3.0" (for win2k... or my 4 speaker setup is reduced to 2) and it works just dandy.

Want 'em just ask.[/quote:01ae6]

There's a group of guys who love XP so much that they have constant conversations about all sorts of stuff having to do with the OS. Anyway, that's their common answer to any hardware that doesn't work automatically with XP - use the drivers from Win2k. Von, if you can find the drivers for Win2k, or get them from G.I., then it might just do it.

[quote="Captain_McCusker":cda37][quote="[NBK] G.I. Jerk":cda37][quote="=[DOA]=VonMeyer":cda37]I had a sound blaster live x Gamer on my Me compute r and now since i have XP it says my soundcard isnt compatibile with it? Even with new drivers?[/quote:cda37]

I have SBlive X-gamer 5.1 and it works just fine under Xp-pro. If it's XP pro you're using check and see if u have a DMA and/or IRQ conflict. If not I could send you working drivers for it. I used the "liveware 3.0" (for win2k... or my 4 speaker setup is reduced to 2) and it works just dandy.

Want 'em just ask.[/quote:cda37]

There's a group of guys who love XP so much that they have constant conversations about all sorts of stuff having to do with the OS. Anyway, that's their common answer to any hardware that doesn't work automatically with XP - use the drivers from Win2k. Von, if you can find the drivers for Win2k, or get them from G.I., then it might just do it.[/quote:cda37]

I run XP home edition. It says its not been tested for XP?

Jasper's so damn excited. He's been trying to do this for months, heh

And Von, The XP drivers from SB.COM should work fine, you're getting an error msg saying it's not compatible? If you want, I can login to your machine with Remote Assistance or the Messenger Remote, and check it out, if you're having that many problems.

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Von, if I remember correctly, creative drivers work with all products. Get the ones that work for XP. Here's the link:
http://www.americas.creative.com/suppor ... rivers.asp

Wow, I had no idea this was something ppl didn't know how to do ! Personally, I use my on-board sound for my headset, since I certainly don't want chat thru my speakers, and this allows me to set my headset at a different volume than my game sound. Yeah, once you have the proper dirvers installed and both sound cards work, it's as simple as telling windows (in your control panel) what sound card you want it to use for regular audio and the game, and your communications (or any other configurable software really) what you want it to use.