Dual sound cards

[duck_duck_goose]

I was wondering if this would be possible:

2 sound cards, a Soundblaster 16 PCI and some higher quality card, where the Soundblaster 16 produces sound for certain games and the better card produces sound for everything else.

I want to do this because older games require Soundblaster 16 or one of the other old cards (unless I use an emulator, which I don't want to), but I want better quality sound for everything else.

[Tin]

Im running a Chaintech AV-710 for music, which uses the VIA Envy24HT audio chip. Musically, it sounds much better than my X-Fi, and cost me a whole $25. I have since flashed it to an Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 which gives it native ASIO support. My X-Fi is set as my default soundcard, and the AV-710 only sees use with Foobar2000, my program of choice for music. In the Foobar interface, it lets you choose which soundcard you want to use.

[duck_duck_goose]

Cool. So you think that if a Soundblaster 16 card is present, and I choose Soundblaster 16 in the game setup menu (from a choice of supported cards, not cards present on my machine), it will work?

[Tin]

Since both cards are Creative, there may be driver conflict issues. Which operating system are you using?

[faulkner132]

As long as they are on different IRQ's, you should be fine.