Preferences

The Preferences page allows you to choose which Monster Sound preferences you want to activate.

The preferences are:

• Taskbar Icon - Check this box to display the Monster Sound Control Icon on your Windows 95/98 taskbar. Double-click on the taskbar icon to open the Monster Sound Control Panel.
  
  
• Tool Tip Help - Check this box to activate the Tool Tip Help which displays on-screen descriptions of features when you position the cursor over a specific item.
  
  
• Sound Blaster Emulation - Check this box to activate Sound Blaster Emulation. Only select this option if you do not have a Sound Blaster-compatible device in your system, and you wish to play DOS games in a Windows 95/98 DOS box.
  
  Note: You can only select this feature if you've installed the Sound Blaster Emulation during setup.
  
  Click for more information on using Monster Sound with Sound Blaster and compatible sound cards.
  
  
• DirectSound safe mode - Check this box to activate the DirectSound safe mode. This mode limits Monster Sound to use only one hardware buffer, similar to a legacy ISA sound card. Some games were developed before DirectSound hardware was available, and as such may have difficulty running on a true multi-streaming card such as Monster Sound.
  
  IMPORTANT: Enabling this setting will effectively disable Monster Sound's audio processing functions including A3D's enhanced 3D audio. You should only enable this setting when running a game or application that does not operate properly with acceleration.
  
  
• Auto On/Off powered speakers - Check this box to mute the output when there are no open streams playing. This allows sensitive Auto On/Off powered speakers to power down.
  

The Codec Rate allows you to select the parameters which effect the performance and quality of your audio. You have three preferences to choose from:

• 48K - Click here if you have a specialized application that requires 48Khz support, or if you wish to perform a very high quality recording.
  
  Caution! The 48K setting may affect the performance and quality of other audio in your system. 3D audio will not function if a Codec Rate of 48K is set!
  
  
• 44K - Click here for high-quality recording and playback support. This is also the default mode.
  
  
• 22K - Click here for optimized game performance. This setting gives you additional processing power to handle more streams of audio, including 3D audio.