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Originally Posted by pardaughters
Thank you for the info, cwa. So, ie. the XP drivers and the Mac soundcard are at odds? Could this be remedied by booting in another edition of XP? I'm just curious as to why this is happening to my particular macbook pro, as opposed to my housemate's.
I haven't tried Parallels yet. Theoretically, would the Windows XP apps running through Parallels be operating on osx, bypassing the clash of xp drivers and mac soundcard? I'm just hesitant to spend more money only to achieve the same results. I'll do some Parallels research.
Again, thank you for the help!
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Drivers are software programs that allow the operating system to interface with the hardware attached to it - like sound cards, video cards, printers, scanners, etc. They essentially provide the operating system a conduit with which to send and receive instructions to the device and vice versa.
So, when Apple developed Bootcamp, they had to create Windows XP drivers for the hardware within Apple products. Since those drivers are part of the Bootcamp package which is still in development, they are probably still going through the process of being refined and bug-checked.
When you use Parallels to run Windows XP, Parallels creates something known as a "virtual machine". In a sense, virtualization software (as it's known in the industry) emulates a very generic machine so that non-hardware-specific drivers are used by the guest operating system. So, when you run XP in Parallels, it's like we're talking about a different machine with a different set of hardware altogether.
If I were you, I'd take the Parallels software for a test run (there's a free trial on their website) and see how well your audio software works in that environment.