What are Audio Drivers?
Audio drivers are important for using a PC for things such as listening to MP3s and music CDs, listening to movies and shows on the computer, and more. Almost every PC currently sold has some type of audio capability, unless it is server class hardware. The system audio device may be included and built into [...]
What are ASIO Drivers?
The acronym ASIO stands for Audio Stream Input/Output. The ASIO is a sound card driver standard that is used for digital audio which is aimed towards the music professional instead of the home PC user. ASIO standards are used by musicians and sound engineers for processing audio files with PC software instead of using an [...]
What are AC97 Drivers?
The AC97 audio codec was invented by Intel in 1997, and was specifically designed to put in place a standard specification that could be followed by developers to help in the development of integrated personal computer sound devices.
Intel developed this codec so developers could build in high quality audio devices on a PC, which could [...]