Just got a new hard drive installed and have been in the process of reinstalling all my old progs onto it.

After installing foobar 0.8.3 special, I've noticed that when changing the volume it takes a while to respond (the increase or decrease in volume is no longer instant). I tried with WMP and the same thing happens, so this isn't a foobar issue (hence me not posting in the foobar forum).
Also, the spectrum analyser seems to now be linked to the volume level, i.e. when the volume is low, the spectrum analyser bars are also very low.

Neither of these things happened in my old set up (only diff now is new hard drives; all drivers have been installed and are the same as before).

I launched the old foobar install on my old HD and now it too has this problem. This means it is not a software app issue. However, I really don't know what is going on and would like to it back to what it was before, which I thought was the standard - are other peoples setups affected like this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Telling us what soundcard you have might help.

I'm using the onboard audio from my MSI K8N Neo (MS-7030) Platinum ATX Socket-754 motherboard. It uses the Realtek ALC850 7.1-channel audio codec.

are you using the WDM driver, or a realtek driver?

I installed the realtek driver today. All other drivers had been installed and were working ok, but I'd forgotten to install this one(!), so when i tried to play an audio file in foobar etc it didn't work. So, installed it and now I have this unexpected issue.

As I say, afaik I've done nothing different in setting up my system on this new HD compared to my old HD.

I've been thinking about this some more. Maybe the problem has been caused by me installing the audio drivers after almost all other progs being installed; including foobar & WMP. So, could it be possible that foobar and WMP are 'looking' at the original/standard drivers? and that now the correct drivers are there they aren't 'looking' at them? I know you can change the foobar output settings, and I have changed that so that it points to the Realtek one. But still no joy. I've tried the others too just to see what happens, but as yet it's not fixed it.

Could removing the drivers and reinstalling them do the trick? or maybe uninstalling and then reinstalling foobar?

Ok, so finally figured out the sound issue: maybe bit of a "school-boy" mistake, but in the 'Volume control toolbar' I hadn't changed the 'Control which device' drop down list to my audio drivers (Realtek). Seems ok now. Sorry

That also solved the visualisations now not imitating the volume level, i.e. they now stay the same level. However, the visualisation level (in both the Spectrum analyser & Simple spectrum panels) is much much lower/smaller (the bar height etc) than in my previous set up. In the Simple spectrum panel, where it's shown at frequency, Hz, level, it's barely above 7kHz (the file is a flac file from a CD that is definitley over 7kHz -- all my files display a similar low frequency range.

Can anyone shed any light on that for me please?

(I know this one is probably a more specific foobar issue now, but since I've got this thread here I thought I'd make use of it rather than create a new one).

## Forget it. I've sorted it now.
## Admin: delete the thread if you like; not much use to anyone really, sorry