[hoover]

Is there any advantage using a sound card performance wise other than better sound.

[stansdds]

In the past the simple answer was "yes". Today, the answer is a bit cloudy. Better quality sound from a dedicated sound card? Absolutely. Better performance, maybe. If you have an older computer with a single core processor, then better performance will be seen, but with something like a Core2Duo, you may see a tiny improvement, but not enough to really make a difference. With new computers it's a sound quality question, how nice do you want it to sound?

[SVHAK]

I believe so, read the following:

Sound Issues and possible corrections

Some users experience a 'crackling sound' during flight. Win XP and some older Win OS's have a known issue with VIA chipsets.

Some items that can be corrected if you are using a VIA based motherboard.

Always use the latest 4n1 drivers for your MOBO. They can be downloaded @ ViaHardware or Viaarena .

Setting PCI latency to (0) or (64) in your BIOS.

Moving Hardware Acceleration to standard in DX Diag. or under Sound properties in your Windows control panel.

Using the IL-2_snd.dll from version 1.03 has also helped many users. You can download this file here. Extract to main IL2 folder using WinZip.

Findings
After many hours on the IL2 Tech board I have found that soundcards are a very high cause of stutter and decreased playability. Most diagnose this incorrectly and chase a phantom fix for their stutters.
Onboard Sound - Newer MOBO's are increasing the scope of these but if at all avoidable do not use onboard sound. Generally most onboard a very underpowered for use in IL2.

Hardware Acceleration - By moving the DX acceleration of sound to standard and in the worse case to none (emulation only) and Sound quality to Good many users can eliminate almost all stutters after 1.04b2 (if in fact caused by sound devices on their system)

http://fly.to/combatsimsonline

hope it helped :wink:

[hoover]

I believe so, read the following:

Sound Issues and possible corrections

Some users experience a 'crackling sound' during flight. Win XP and some older Win OS's have a known issue with VIA chipsets.

Some items that can be corrected if you are using a VIA based motherboard.

Always use the latest 4n1 drivers for your MOBO. They can be downloaded @ ViaHardware or Viaarena .

Setting PCI latency to (0) or (64) in your BIOS.

Moving Hardware Acceleration to standard in DX Diag. or under Sound properties in your Windows control panel.

Using the IL-2_snd.dll from version 1.03 has also helped many users. You can download this file here. Extract to main IL2 folder using WinZip.

Findings
After many hours on the IL2 Tech board I have found that soundcards are a very high cause of stutter and decreased playability. Most diagnose this incorrectly and chase a phantom fix for their stutters.
Onboard Sound - Newer MOBO's are increasing the scope of these but if at all avoidable do not use onboard sound. Generally most onboard a very underpowered for use in IL2.

Hardware Acceleration - By moving the DX acceleration of sound to standard and in the worse case to none (emulation only) and Sound quality to Good many users can eliminate almost all stutters after 1.04b2 (if in fact caused by sound devices on their system)

http://fly.to/combatsimsonline

hope it helped :wink:

since i dont have any of those problems you listed i better leave well enough alone.
but thanks much for that good info.