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elric2176@evanses.com (Andy Evans) wrote in message news:<bb2a3139.0403190810.6a9428c8@posting.google.com>...
> The performance of my new Audigy LS card is very poor, even given its
> role as Creative's "lower-priced" card.
> 
> <snip> 
> I understand that this is not a true relative to the
> Audigy line of products, and that EAX (at least) is not
> hardware-accelerated on this card, plus I am using this on a low-end
> PC (1.4 Ghz Celeron, 640 MB, Win XP), but it still shouldn't be this
> bad.
> 
> In testing, Audio WinBench 99 (v 1.0.1) reports between 32% and 55%
> CPU utilization, depending on the severity of the test. RightMark 3D
> CPU utilization test reports between 20% and 40%...I wonder if there's some
> incompatibility with my PC setup.
> <snip>

I did some more testing, and determined that the problem is my Gravis
GamePad Pros plugged into the Audigy's game port. If I have them in
the special "GRiP" mode (even if only 1 is attached), my CPU
utilization is terrible. If I unplug them, or use 1 in "4 button"
mode, or 2 in "2-button" mode, my test results are normal. I did not
have this problem with my old Diamond MX-300 (Aureal) sound card's
game port.

I tried using the Gravis Xperience 4.5 software, rather than using the
default XP drivers, but this didn't help. I also tried turning on the
(poor quality) on-board sound just to use its game port while trying
to disable the sound portion. I'm not sure if set this up entirely
correctly, but I was able to get sound to go through the Audigy while
the pads were functional in the on-board game port. I still got bad
readings, though.

I could try asking both companies' support departments, but I have a
feeling that they'd just point their fingers at the other company.