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gamerman4 · 07-02-2009, 11:12 PM

Since USB headphones are a seperate device, not controlled by your sound card, your computer treats it as a second sound device. Your situation would be no different than say having two PCI sound cards. In Vista/7 you can go into playback devices and choose which is your primary device but AFAIK you can't output to two seperate sound devices. If the specific program allows you to change which sound device is used then you could theoretically hear game music through speakers and only player voices through your headset. An example of this would be to use speakers for your games and setup a Ventrilo server, Vent allows you to choose where it outputs the voices to so you could choose your headset even while Vista/7 still has the speakers as primary.

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gamerman4 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Arkansas Age: 19 Posts: 2,806	Since USB headphones are a seperate device, not controlled by your sound card, your computer treats it as a second sound device. Your situation would be no different than say having two PCI sound cards. In Vista/7 you can go into playback devices and choose which is your primary device but AFAIK you can't output to two seperate sound devices. If the specific program allows you to change which sound device is used then you could theoretically hear game music through speakers and only player voices through your headset. An example of this would be to use speakers for your games and setup a Ventrilo server, Vent allows you to choose where it outputs the voices to so you could choose your headset even while Vista/7 still has the speakers as primary. __________________ Intel Q6600 @ 3.00 Ghz Xigmatek HDT-S1283 ASUS P5Q SE PLUS HDDs:1 x 500GB 1x 750GB 1x 1000GB 2 x 2GB OCZ DDR2 1066 ATi Radeon HD 4870 1024MB PC Power & Cooling S61EPS 610W Logitech Z-5500 there shouldn't be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?