The sound becomes choppy when running two instances of World of Warcraft. There's an option to disable the sound in game, but having both or just one on has the same effect.
Is there a way to disable the sound on one of the accounts prior to opening the game, or something else I might try?
I am currently running a dual core 4200+ AMD chip, in an SLI setup - though I don't have SLI turned on. The sound is integrated into the motherboard (Asus A8N SLI Deluxe).
I'm thinking about upgrading to a seperate sound card if this would fix the problem, maybe using both sound cards at the same time... but how would wineq know to split up the load between the two?
Thanks in advance!
Sound distortion when playing WoW
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WinEQ 2 knows nothing about sound, really. Windows itself would probably not allow selective sound card usage (even if it did, WoW would need to give the option of which sound card to use), and generally an actual sound card is going to perform much better than onboard.
I dont believe I've ever had a "sound choppiness" issue with WoW (any number of instances open), with a similar setup to yours (3800+ X2, etc), but with an Audigy sound card. You can probably pick up a non-cheapo card (any Sound Blaster Audigy or better card will do, don't settle for random brands in this case), install it, disable onboard sound, and see if it solves the problem within the return policy time from the place you got the card. The local computer store I used to work at had a 3-day no questions asked full refund policy, as well as a 15-day with restocking fee on most items. You might be able to find the same deal at a local computer store, and then if it solves the problem you could probably either keep the card or purchase the same card cheaper online
I dont believe I've ever had a "sound choppiness" issue with WoW (any number of instances open), with a similar setup to yours (3800+ X2, etc), but with an Audigy sound card. You can probably pick up a non-cheapo card (any Sound Blaster Audigy or better card will do, don't settle for random brands in this case), install it, disable onboard sound, and see if it solves the problem within the return policy time from the place you got the card. The local computer store I used to work at had a 3-day no questions asked full refund policy, as well as a 15-day with restocking fee on most items. You might be able to find the same deal at a local computer store, and then if it solves the problem you could probably either keep the card or purchase the same card cheaper online
I went ahead and took your advice, and bought a new sound card. The only choice I had was a Diamond Xtreme 5.1 7.1 card (overseas BX). Anyways, I'm using that now and right away I notice the difference... or lack thereof between playing one and two accounts 
What a difference. If only I had purchased the seperate sound card long ago!
What a difference. If only I had purchased the seperate sound card long ago!