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    SB Audigy software memory hogging?

    I just picked me up a SB Audigy Platinum and installed it on a fresh Windows XP Pro installation. Great sound card, IMO. I know there are better out there, but for general multimedia I doubt there is much better. Anyway, being the carzed system performance geek I am, I was digging around and found that my computer started up with 84 MB RAM used, when my normal footprint is 50-65 MB RAM.

    I popped up Task Manager and found that the Creative software takes up 14.4 MB RAM on startup, not including the 12 MB RAM taken for the sound fonts!!! And that with all startup items disable except the RemoteCenter. Good googley moogley!!! I always wondered why people say the SB drivers are crap. 26 MB RAM gone just like that...

    It's a good damn thing RAM is cheap and I'm pack'n 512 MB or I'd be really pissed off.

    Jammrock
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    Yes, those bastages need to streamline the drivers.
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    It's about right for the amount of stuff they do.
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    26 MB, that's it? You should see how much RAM Norton System Works takes up!
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    Not too bad

    Gee, don't knock having to store soundfonts in ram :-) At least the sblive/sbaudigy have hardware wavetable synthsis rather than a pretendy software wavetable synthisiser.

    And if the creative software chews up too much ram, disable it. I thought everyone did that anyway :-)

    Anyway, even though creative should trim the fat off their software, it isn't anywhere near as bad is ICQ is
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      Is _THAT_ what the 15MB "service" running in the background on my machine is? Damn!

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        Originally posted by Gurm
        Is _THAT_ what the 15MB "service" running in the background on my machine is? Damn!

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        I'd like to "seek and terminate"!

        In w2k (and xp i presume) software writer has found a new funny place to hide memmory hogging software...

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