win2k limitation w/ sound?

recently ive been running a lot of sound tools, including ventrilo and shoutcast. both of which require sound input. but if i have ventrilo open, then open shoutcast, shoutcast doesnt get any input, but if i have shoutcast open and open ventrilo, i get an error saying "unable to capture sound device ". i know my soundcard is good enough to support both, and its full duplex, but ive been reading up on this and have read a few times that win2k has a limitation where only 1 application can capture a sound device at a time... is there any fix for this? patch? or was i misinformed?

any help would be greatly appriciated.

 

It depends on your card. I suspect your card is only capable of handling one input. You could buy a second card and have 1 for each application or buy a swish card that has more than 1 input.

FYI - Full duplex just means that it can record and playback at the same time.

What card do you have?

 

it truely is a limitation of windows 2000. i upgraded to XP Pro, and now i can have any sound recording program open with any other one open and it all works perfect. i duno what microsoft was thinking but then again, i never do.