I've read somewhere that Win7's mixer function was stripped of functions that XP had natively.
Using a Lenovo T-61 and found out that I needed to add separate audio card to gain features in XP so added a PCMCIA card:
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Sound-Blaster-X-Fi-Xtreme-Audio-Notebook-Expresscard/231909936207 which greatly enhanced the native soundmax audio in both XP & W7,
however, in XP I can record both line in & 'What You Hear' (Stereo Mix or sometimes referred to as Wave out).
In W7, however, I can only record line-in using WASAPI (Audacity is only one so far I have seen that can use this)
and I am completely unable to record any streaming (as in XP) using 'What You Hear' function, which seems to be removed.
So it appears they have deliberately crippled the sound functionality in W7 (probably Vista also, but I never used that).
It very well may be simply the W7 Creative drivers, as I was able to get this functionality back with another W7 system (HP Mini form factor)
by adding an Asus Xonar DSX PCI Express low profile card. Perhaps this is the key. Hardware + drivers that support it.
Am I and others who claimed it was the OS that removed so much audio functionality that are jumping the gun here?
Should we really be hammering Creative for this idiocy? But it's the same driver package for both OS's. ?!
This is happening on the same laptop using multi-boot - multi-hdd (with Ultrabay carriers).
The hardware is exactly the same. The PC card is amazing. Without it, Soundmax works. Stick X-fi card in and it immediately kicks in with all drivers enabled.
No messing around with DevMgr or anything else. Very convenient (no extra USB stuff to use).
Does anyone know how I can overcome this without getting another sound device? I'm using latest/last Creative drivers now.
Perhaps some third party drivers or radical tweak would get this to work in W7 as it does in XP?
If anyone knows of a solution PC card slot or USB that would work for both XP & W7 I would be very interested.
PC card is my first choice because it's self contained, but if nothing is available that would restore this function,
I'll use USB or have to live with the limitations.
It'd be great if we could have the functionality we've had with all our home built P4 systems using Audigy cards (2Z & 4Pro etc.).
Thanks in advance for any information.
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