I know how you feel. I wish I remember how I solved that problem

Are you excited for Windows 7??

It'll have the same restrictions. As well, the possible solutions are limited.

Either plugging a double ended mic cord, using software emulation of some sort (unreliable), being lucky enough to have a chipset where

you can find an equivalent driver that doesn't have it disabled, or purchasing an older external soundcard

and being lucky enough to find vista drivers that don't disable it.

unfortunately, none of the solutions work in my specific case (I don't have the mic cable to try that one)

Yeah they really screwed that up in Vista.

XP FTMFW

confused... if vista sends sounds to your speakers you should be able to record that sound... is this an internal thing you are trying to do

are you sure you just don't have the proper audio drivers or an audio card that supports system sounds?

It's a combination of both. It appears my particular driver may lack the ability to record 'what you hear' at the hardware level, but

impossible to know. There are drivers for other OEMs using this chipset that enable Stereo Mix, but, none of those work.

In addition, Vista hides these options by default, even if supported by your hardware.

er, driver == hardware about 3 plurks up ;P

Solution is: 1) buy an external soundcard with hardware and drivers that support this (it's a notebook computer). 2) use headphones,

a y adapter, and a double ended mic cable, 3) disable driver signing and use a piece of software called virtual audio cable.

sounds complicated... i choose a simpler way... os x

that os x wouldn't solve the problem if you're trying to record game movies, as you may or may not know, os x + games does not = true

yes some games are mac compatible

but a -lot-- of games aren't

also Windows 7 seems to have some nice new features, but other than that, it's -still- Vista, you can doll up Vista as much as you want,

it's still a big fat bitch, Kyle's moms a bitch she's a big fat bitch she's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world... and her name is

Vista <.<

>.>

but hey, I haven't tried Windows 7, it might be good, I for one have my doubts though

No, it's just what the cool kids like. It's still Vista, but, because everyone's using Vista, all the people that naysay'ed vista

have to agree with MS's next os release

Seriously, people should grow some balls and admit Windows 7 is worthless too.

all I know about Windows 7 is what the press releases claim "It'll be better than Vista!" but hey, stuff coming out of my ASS is better than

Vista, so...

that's not exactly hard

It's Vista SP2 1/2.

indeed..

ooooooooook

best of luck with your search to record **audio**