[WriteLog] Writelog and Dell's AC '97 codec

[Marty Tippin]

One item that's not tracked on in your results is the operating system, 
which will play a role in how many sound cards perform - the drivers of 
course have to be written to make use of the various features of the sound 
card, and I know from experience that the score you get from a sound card 
under one OS sometimes changes when you switch to another.

I've got an old Yamaha DS-XG type card in one desktop system (card was a 
hamfest special, $3, bought it because it's PCI) - under Win98 I got a 
score of something like 70 or 75, unfortunately I don't remember which. 
Then I upgraded to Win2000 and got a score of 77 (which, BTW, isn't a 7f as 
reported by K5DJ on your site for what I think is the same card).

Likewise on my Dell Inspiron 4000, the score changed slightly when I went 
from Win98 to Win2k on the ESS Maestro-3i (and it's only 77 now, so beware 
when considering purchase of an Inspiron as all the current models use the 
Maestro-3i)

In both cases, the  drivers for Win2k were obviously newer than the 
previous ones, and apparently supported more of the features WriteLog needs.

73,

-Marty NW0L
  martyt@pobox.com

At 10:21 PM 6/6/2001 , WA9ALS - John wrote:

>The Dell Precision Workstation 330 specs state that it has "Integrated AC'97
>Full-Duplex Audio".  If you go to
>http://www.esstech.com/products/audio/Prod_Briefs/pb1921_022001.pdf
>and read about the AC '97 codec, you will find that it's supposed to have
>full-duplex stereo operation for simultaneous record and playback.  However,
>NZ3O reported a score of only 61 with the WL soundchecker, and the report
>specifically said:
>
>"automatic routing of two radio audio not supported. Automatic routing of
>mic thru soundcard not supported. No support for simultaneous play and
>record. It will support WinRTTY on two radios"  (See
>http://www.qsl.net/wa9als/sound_results.htm)
>
>Bizarro?!  73


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