# Applications Ignoring New Soundcard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/applications-ignoring-new-soundcard/161665>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 15, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/applications-ignoring-new-soundcard/161665 "2003-03-15T21:59:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![confessorknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@confessorknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confessorknight)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/applications-ignoring-new-soundcard/161665/1 "2003-03-15T21:59:39Z")

</div>

OK so I just got back with my new soundcard (Gamesurround Fortissimo III),  
fix it into the computer and put in driver disc at startup.  
In control panel \> Multimedia I change both the preferred playback and recording  
designations to my new toy.  
To test I insert an audio CD _MusicMatch_ starts up and playback is fine.  
Hoping to take advantage of the much vaunted 5.1 sound I insert _Pulp Fiction_ and start up Powerdvd.  
It is here that my dreams come crashing down…  
There is **no sound** Under Powerdvd, Winamp or Windows Media Player whereas Musicmatch and Cooledit work just fine I’ve spent hours rearranging inputs from CD drives to Soundcards (both my new one and the one that forms part of my motherboard) and it has no effect.  
When I go to Winamps options \>preferences and select my new card as an output device the files just refuse to start.

Does anybody have any advice on where I should be looking(Websites, Option/Settings menus) for a way to get at least some performance out of my new purchase?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/applications-ignoring-new-soundcard/161665/2 "2003-03-15T22:51:01Z")

</div>

- 
  - 
    - The first place to look is for any suport boards specific to the soundcard, noting your operating system… but anyway… Did you try disabling the on-board sound first in the BIOS, then in Windows?  
~