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If anyone using JRiver MC, heres how to fix your maxed out volume problem when using ASIO output: Select audio tab in programs config, then click Volume setting at bottom now set volume mode to Internal Volume from system volume. Done!
Hi. I've installed driver 1.63 on my Xonar DS with C-Media Panel (no GX) and Windows 8 and checked out DPC Latency Checker just for curiosity. http://www.imagebam.com/image/966676214619541
According to that I have stable 1000 μs.
Did I do something wrong?
Depends on how it was before. From what I know DPC latecy isn't reported right in Win8. Anyway you could read the article I wrote about DPC latency might come in handy.
Hi there,
Cheers for the awesome drivers : ). They're working much better than the stock ones. I do have a question, though. Is it possible to clone output on the back ports so I can run both headphones and speakers at the same time? I've been looking like crazy and I haven't been able to come up with much.
Thank you!
Depends. Which Windows do you have?
Thanks for the reply. I have Windows 7 64bit, and I'm using a Xonar DX.
Cheers!
Try this: Install the UNi Xonar drivers with "Re-enable stereo upmix" option selected. Set the following settings in Asus (or Cmedia) Panel: audio channels:2 sound analog output: 4 speakers. I think this should work. Maybe some games will require to manually set ingame sound speaker config to 2 channels.
Later edit: Connect headphones to rear speakers jack and speakers to front speakers jack or vice versa.
Does anyone here play a game call 'Hard Reset Extended Edtion (v1.50) ?
Somehow this game only able to detect my speaker system as 2.0 Stereo
and it won't allow to change to 5.1 manually.
P.S. I'm using HDAV1.3 with Xonar Unified Drivers v1.63b. Tried it with
GX on and off.
P.S.2 HDAV1.3 Deluxe (With H6) btw….
Oh jeeze, just installed the 1.63 drivers with my Essence STX on Windows 8 64-bit, lost windows sound settings / playback devices after reboot! It now says "No audio devices are installed." in both recording and playback tabs. Sound works fine from any other program, but duplicates are showing up (there are 2 Speakers (Essence ST Audio Device)).
err typo Essence ST (no X)
Every time I try to install the Uni Xonar 1.63 drivers, it creates another Essence ST Audio Device in mmdevices registry, etc. without removing the old one...new duplicate every time, 1 duplicate will apparently completely destroy your sound config dialog. Tried removing entries related to Essence ST after removing the card from my computer but not sure how to delete the read-only ones... might have to factory reset Windows 🙁
Well here I am after a fresh install, it works fine now. I think it was because I had original Xonar drivers installed with Alexa's mod, then rather than restarting after removing everything, just started installing Uni Xonar. Terrible idea! Duplicated entries everywhere, completely broken mmdevices registry tree!
Strange thing.
It could be like you said. Thanks for sharing.
[off-topic]
Can anyone help, got the D2x this morning, been trying to set it up and its not quite working out.
I'm getting the center speaker outputting left surround as the software tells me. I've checked the z906 and I connected center speakers to the center location. Left and right are fine but not center? ANy ideas?
I took the plunge and changed to Windows 8 PRO a few days ago and installed the 1.63 drivers for my D2X and have had no issues once I configured the sound subsystem properly. I did initially have a few minor problems that were solved using the Troubleshoot audio playback tool (Control Panel ---> Troubleshooting ---> Troubleshoot audio playback). It figured out what to configure as default sound devices on my PC.
Thanks for all the hard work that is put into getting these drivers working.
Ok - I'm only going to say - that I love you guys 😀
The Uni drivers work like a charm, whereas the stupid Asus CD, let alone the "latest" monkey software on their website didn't work with my PC running on Win7 64bit
Was about to return my brand new PCI-E DX - but after a little searching around - found the uni-drivers.
I originally went for the "normal" installation, but now I'm on the C-Panel - not as much eye candy, but certainly does the job, and more so doesn't remind me of what a failure of a software Asus provides.
So my thanks goes to you guys to made these drivers and the software.
I'm donating right not - even though I've only been using it for 4days - I appreciate the good work.
I'll also mention you guys on my website: http://www.totallydubbed.net/ 🙂
-Chris
Le:
Donation:
Confirmation number: 8L246944RK4969601
Enjoy – not much, but its something
Glad the UNi drivers helped.
🙂 I think most of us here use the C-media Panel.
Nice thing you got going on that site. Good luck with it in the future.
I don't have anything with that number but I think the donation came through. Thank you very much:)
With C-Media Audio Panel you know that you cannot use the Front Panel. Ok, you can still use AsusAudioCenter to do this or the Front Panel Switch.
By the way, why don't you include the Front Panel Switch to your UNi Xonar driver pack?
Greets 🙂
Here are 1807 & 1813 driver packs based on C-Media Audio Panel:
ASUS Xonar DX v8.0.8.1807 Beta Win7_Win8 modified driver C-Media Panel Edition by MasterFaster
PCI_DX_8_0_8_1807_CMediaPanel_Win7_Win8.rar (8.75MB) http://www.sendspace.com/file/00w9fd
ASUS Xonar DX v8.0.8.1813 Beta Win7_Win8 modified driver C-Media Panel Edition by MasterFaster
PCI_DX_8_0_8_1813_CMediaPanel_Win7_Win8.rar (8.76MB) http://www.sendspace.com/file/5msvny
Notes:
1. The AsusAudioCenter is removed completely from the driver packs. The setup and the rest of the files are modified accordingly.
2. The drivers can be installed on both Windows 7 and Windows 8 (thanks to Alexa for the tip about SupportOS=donotcare).
3. Front Panel Switch v3.2 is included in the packs and it will be installed by the setup. Credits to: Front Panel Switch was created by Virus and it is maintained by CarvedInside.
4. C-Media Audio Panel doesn't support switching to your FP Headphones or FP Speakers. But with the Front Panel Switch v3.2 you can switch to your Front Panel's Headphones or speakers.
I have tested the 1813 driver and it worked ok under Windows 7 x64.
Cheers! Well that’s true about the front audio out. But i don’t see myself using that. I might even unplug it from the soundcard, as i never seem to need FP out lol.
And yes the donation went through as i see my name in the donation list !
Keep up the great work! -Chris
In my case I have 5.1 speakers (analog out) and FP headphones. So the Front Panel is very important to me, as I don't always hear from the speakers. In fact I make frequent use of my FP headphones. That's the reason why I released the above C-Media Panel Edition of my driver packs.
In UNi Xonar drivers you have the option to choose between the AsusAudioCenter and C-Media Audio Panel. That's something very useful.
@ Virus and CarvedInside, thanks for the Front Panel Switch v3.2. It was very useful in fixing this limitation of C-Media Panel. Now the only thing that remain is to create a Front Panel Switch for FP microphone. 🙂
Actually the FP microphone worked in the past without using the AsusAudioCenter. I always used the recording devices options to enable it, and the microphone worked the same when connected to either back panel or front panel.
Maybe it works the same way with the C-Media Audio Panel and thus there is no need for external application to set it.
In the end, maybe my last sentence (about a Front Panel Switch for FP microphone) is faulty. 🙂
Ok i have discovered the source of my problem... The UniXonar drivers are simply not compatible with Teamspeak 3! Whenever i try to configure my mic in TS3, driver crashes and locks my system! I really hope there is a workaround, otherwise i'm going to have to avoid these drivers!
These drivers working fine with TS3 .
Does anyone know where the c-media panel stores eq settings?
I know the current state of the eq appears in the registry (as explained in the FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide), but the user-entered presets have to be stored somewhere. Also, it'd be pretty annoying to restore eq settings with a reg file: log off, log back in, store, repeat.
I just reinstalled my OS, installed 1.63 and TS3.... system lock!
Here's some TS3 errors:
10/13/2012 8:30:23 PM SoundBckndIntf Error C:/Program Files/TeamSpeak 3 Client/soundbackends/directsound_win64.dll error: NO_DEFAULT_FOUND
10/13/2012 8:30:23 PM Windows Audio Session Error ERROR (-107 -2147023728): Element not found.
10/13/2012 8:30:23 PM SoundBckndIntf Error C:/Program Files/TeamSpeak 3 Client/soundbackends/windowsaudiosession_win64.dll error: GETTING_DEFAULTAUDIOENDPOINT
10/13/2012 8:30:23 PM Windows Audio Session Devel DeviceDeleteList::waitForDeletes - enter
10/13/2012 8:30:23 PM Windows Audio Session Devel DeviceDeleteList::waitForDeletes - leave
10/13/2012 8:30:29 PM Windows Audio Session Devel DeviceDeleteList::waitForDeletes - enter
10/13/2012 8:30:29 PM Windows Audio Session Devel DeviceDeleteList::waitForDeletes - leave
10/13/2012 8:30:29 PM Windows Audio Session Devel DeviceDeleteList::waitForDeletes - enter
10/13/2012 8:30:29 PM Windows Audio Session Devel DeviceDeleteList::waitForDeletes - leave
I read your mail, I think its better to continue here as more people can see and maybe help. I find your problems strange, have you enabled GX? If yes, turn it off and try again.
I suggest you try with 1.54 drivers as well.
After you reinstalled Windows, you still have to restart your pc a couple of times so that the sound works? And are you having system locks if TS3 isn't loaded at all?
I would also try the card in another PC.
Thanks 🙂
The GX is always off, the drivers i was going back and forth with is 1.53 and 1.63. After i reinstalled my OS, everything was fine until i installed TS3, it started to show instability as soon as i got to the part where i need to select my mic. As soon as i get to the TS channel and configure my mic for Push to Talk, in couple of minutes my system locks up! At this point i'm using my evga e758 x58 mothrboards onboard audio, I can try my Xonar D2 in my wife's rig and test it with TS3, i'll report back! One question: Do i have to use a power cable with Xonar D2 or it's just plug into slot and forget it?
You could use onboard card for microphone recording and Xonar for playback. Maybe this way you won't have problems.
Always use power cable.
That's weird, there is no instructions or indication for power cable to be used with Xonar D2!?
Its mentioned in quick guide and/or the cards manual. Also Asus drivers usually displayed a message that instructed to connect the power cable.
Do you have the separate power plug connected to your Xonar now?
I think the Xonar D2 not need extra power or either have a power plug. I think its the Xonar D2X which need extra power caused by the pci-e brigde chip. But i am not sure at the moment as i have the D2X which need extra power to work. "sputniknyc" look at Asus specifications if there is a power plug available. If so the you have to connect extra power for the card to work!
You might be right. From the looks of it at least the early D2's, they don't have a external power connector.
From what I remember, the external connector was to deliver more "clean" power to the card than through PCI/PCIe slot and not because the PCIe slot couldn't deliver.
ASUS Xonar D2X has a PCIe bridge chip that features error correction, which also removes noise...and it sounds BETTER than the PCI variant of the same audio card... and thats why you get clearer sound but extra power is needed for the D2X*s especially the pci-e bridge chip.
Don't laugh - but looking for help before finally tossing my D2/PM and going back to on-board audio. I only use this card on an XP32 installation for gaming (I wont get into details on why I am not using Windows 7 yet - I have various VALID reasons of which are better off not discussed HERE)
Bit of history here first ;
Asus D2/PM official driver 1793 - Everything working fine except Call of Duty : World at War - I got into communications with Asus support, which in turn actually put me into communication with their 'engineering' department which subsequently asked me for some configuration information, some files and other various things regarding this one specific game not having ANY sound using the 1793 driver on Windows XP 32bit.
After some emails flew around between us multiple times, the 1794 driver was released with Call of Duty : World at War fixed. It now has sound.
The big thumbs down ?? Call of Duty : Black Ops wont even start now. I've had it with ASUS and their audio cards (I've had other issues with their Xonar drivers in the past, but that isn't a problem to be discussed here and now either).
I rolled back to 1793 and Black Ops starts and has audio just fine, World at War has no audio. Update to 1794 and World at War now has audio, Black Ops wont even launch - no error messages or anything - just hangs and I have to end the process - no information in the event logs.
Trust me, I've tried it all as I have been through this with Asus already.
SO, I found this place. Tried all the drivers from here - same thing. Black Ops is the only thing that wont start with Asus 1794 drivers or 1.54 and up Uni Xonar drivers.
Does ANYONE have any idea what it is with Xonar drivers and games ? It seems like Black Ops is trying to init the sound and fails. If it worked with 1793 but not with 1794 - then it has to be something stupid easy to figure out - but unfortantely I am 'in the know' like the Uni Xonar guy 😛
Seriously, I like this card and would pay a considerably decent donation to get this one sorted out. It took a LONG time to get Asus to fix 1793, but they broke 1794 in the process. LOL.
Ideas ?
Maybe you have GX enabled, so disable GX if you enabled it. It is no use in these games and it only causes problems.
Do you mean just simply clicking GX off to 'off' in the Panel ? If so, I have tried that - it was actually the first thing I tried. Or do you mean there is somehow a way to completely remove GX from the drivers and then reboot ?
Quick update : If I set my Hardware Acceleration to ‘NONE’ in Audio Properties – The game starts up and I can hear sound, but it obviously sounds terrible. Sounds like an old transistor radio burried under a pillow and its batteries are dying. So not a solution, but does this potentially help indicate where the problem might be ?
I’ve tried the Hardware Acceleration setting on every setting, and the game will only start if its set to NONE.
‘off’ in the Panel. But you should try the unintalling the drivers and install them again with Low DPC latency option, this will completely turn off GX.
I don't know , with hardware acceleration set to "full", maybe Black Ops detects and enables some features that are not actually available for the audio card. This is a long shot but this might help you, you could try and manually disable different audio options from config.cfg (singleplayer) or config_mp.cfg (multiplayer), files located under call of duty black opsplayers. Sound options are starting with "seta snd_". Use notepad++ or wordpad for proper view of those files. Check and see if Black ops has other snd commands added than Word at War and vice versa. Also there are commands that aren't listed there, might find them on the internet. If you find anything let us know.
I see what you mean : I disabled HSMGR.EXE from starting up on boot (Asus 1794 drivers). Did not solve issue either.
Hi,
Does anyone know how to sort the problem with one channel missing on xonar essence st , win 7 64 bit... Many thanks in advance... Manj
I have the ST on win7 x64 and have not a missing channel..Can you detail the problem..I jumped from 1.53 drivers to 1.63 beta today and have not had this problem..Please be more detailed about the problem..Does the one channel problem apear all time or just in specific circumstances..
I have tried all possible drivers , flashed the BIOS , updated chip-set drivers,moved card to all psi slots,but no sound all the time...Than plugged to friend's old pc with win xp, and card would sound ok.
That's unusual...Can you tell me what mainboard (maker//model) had this problem?I am curious..