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Hi, isn't there anyway to get Dolby Home Theater V4 to work on a D2X ?
Would also like to know if this possible.
Check this page.
Does the latency and bit depth affect the quality of the sound produced by say a movie dvd, music player or game?
Sample rate and bit depth can affect the quality of the sound. Check the FAQ: Q&A9 for guide on how to setup these.
I'm don't know if what exactly are you referring with latency. Latency in ASIO settings won't affect sound quality.
Thank you for your response. So ASIO latency doesn't affect sound quality. Thanks! 😀
I'll check the FAQ you referenced.
Some more questions? Does the bit depth of the ASIO panel affect the sound quality at all or is it when you change the Windows bit depth? In fact do I need to bother with Asio at all? Does the card (mine is Xonar Essense STX) use ASIO when playing games, movies etc? Is there a way to switch ASIO on or off?
There is absolutely zero need to mess with ASIO if you're not doing recording or audio work. You'll know if you're using an application that actually needs it, and chances are, you're not, so be glad about that, else you'd just get yourself into more trouble with the Xonar 🙂
A little background, just for completeness: historically Windows has always had absolute crap sound driver stacks - a trend that continues to this very day - I suppose we're all happy that some things never change in the world, right? There was always trouble keeping latency down when recording or doing realtime audio work. For example, you don't want to hit a piano key only to hear it half a second later, and so on) - not to mention audio droputs/static, and other fun stuff.
So quite a few years ago, an alternative "mode" for soundcards came along: ASIO, which allows an application to specify and maintain a fixed and hopefully low input/output latency. However, this requires a special ASIO driver for each soundcard, and not all of them bring them. And guess what - despite the Xonars having one, it's nearly non-functional in practice (been there, done that, got the t-shirt).
Thank you for the response! I was driving myself a bit nuts worrying about it.
Hello CarvedInside and thank you for all your work.I have a Xonar D1 and I'm using your drivers. Can you please tell me if there is any way I can swap left/right audio channels software-wise? Thank you!
Forgot to mention: I am using headphones and I'm always connecting them directly to the card.
Next revision of XonarSwitch will have support for heaphone left / right channel exchange. That means you will be able to do that both in real time and by switching to a profile with that option set to "Enable".
Thank you very much kind Sir!!!
Hey Giulio, Can you please make it possible to swap front with back channels? My Front right channel doesn't give me any sound (just static noise). I use AC3 to swap channel so that I can enjoy 5.1 audio, but in games it sucks. Thank you.
Well I am back for more. I recently installed windows 8.1, latest xonar driver. (1.71) and my mic volume is extremely low on Teamspeak. Everything was set to full blast, and only a few people could hear me if they really concentrated. Windows mic boost was full blast.
I went installed the actual asus drivers as well. Plan to test it.
I never had this problem on Windows 8. Asus Xonar card.
At some point, I will install 1.64 stable drivers and test.
Sorry if any of this is confusing.
I'm looking forward to trying the low latency driver but after installation Speaker Properties > Jack Information for ASUS Essence STX only shows the RCA outputs. Any suggestions as I want to use the rear headphone out. Many thanks. 🙂
It is Low DPC latency and not Low Latency. You should have a look at Features comparison table.
You need to start preferably Cmedia or XonarSwitch to change the output.
"Update"
My issue is resolved. It turns out it was my microphone and the other person's side who I was talking to in voice-chat. I think i will hold off a while until windows 8.1 is fixed.
Thanks
i have windows 8.1 and i am not happy with the default asus driver since there is a huge delay on the line in port, so while plugging my guitar to the sound card there is an annoying delay i was not able to solve. does the UNI diver happens to solve this line-in delay ? and will it work on windows 8.1 🙂 ?
thanks you so much for your hard appreciated work
That's a "feature" of the card which you'll never be able to solve. I've dealt with it myself. The best option is to use a guitar modelling program like Guitar Rig or something and use ASIO, so you can get near-realtime output.
If you're inputting sound that's already processed through an external effects unit, then just find any ASIO-enabled program to do the passthrough.
Nope there is no fix for that. Drivers will work on Win8.1.
You're only other option besides what Bruno suggested is to use the onboard audio card for line-in connections.
thanks for your reply, i do however find the ASIO driver with my card to make sometimes annoying noise and cause problem, i tried using amplitube with asio(default asus driver) on low latency and still there was a huge delay... anyway i think asus drivers are crappy lacking tons of features and really bad looking. i am willing to support your project and i am a graphic designer, i might be able to assist with some good looking UI if its needed 🙂 anyway great work guys and i am waiting to try the drivers once they will be ready for windows 8.1 🙂 🙂
I've found that often, ASIO settings do not stick. Try changing them several times through Amplitube, and try 32/64bit variants if it has them available.
I'm having an issue with a popping/crackling sound whenever I use ASIO (2.0) with foobar (plugin ASIO). The pop happens randomly, even if I apply some filter in Photoshop (high CPU usage) or I simply watch some video or browse the internet. The ASIO latency from my Xonar STX is at the default 10 ms, and in foobar the buffer lenght also at default 1000 ms. DPC latency during playback is aat a max. of 252/101 - depends on what I was doing at that time. Sorry if this thing has been posted before, didn't find a solution for it and really hope you could help me.
I'm afraid that's the nature of the current implementation of ASIO. You could try increasing the latency but I am not sure it will help. Other that that, at this time I don't know what could be done to prevent this. My advice would be to use WASAPI playback output instead if you are on Win Vista/7/8. WASAPI should offer the same sound quality as ASIO.
Not so good news, I will try further to experiment with lowering the buffer and increasing the latency, see if it helps. This is incredible to have a top-notch soundcard and driver support for ASIO and have this problems. Thanks for your quick reply, will come back with news, maybe someone will use the tips and also give a try to WASAPI. The last, afaik don't bypasses the windows mixer, or am I wrong?
Try the low DPC latency version of the driver, if you haven't already. Also, I have noticed that very often, polling external hard drives or other similar USB devices will make the sound stutter. I am running Crashplan and sound stutters once or twice every time that it kicks in and accesses my USB external HDD.
Also, what made you think you bought a top-notch soundcard 🙂 ? I got the D2X and after a few weeks realized that it was anything but top-notch. It advertises a ton of features, and only a subset of those work. Those that do work, barely work as expected. Ironic that I had lambasted Creative before for exactly the same reasons. But I digress, this is a topic for another day.
I have further tested ASIO by lowering the buffer lenght as far as 50 ms and I still got stutter/ popping noise (30 ms latency in ASIO CP). As CarvedInside suggested I tried the more popular WASAPI (push,24 bit PCM 96 Khz) and it seems stable and stutter-free with the buffer lenght set at 300 ms. I will give a chance to the modded drivers, but will do as a last resort measure.
Ah well, I thought you were using the modded drivers already.
Quite honestly, don't expect anything outside of regular playback to work right with the official drivers. Unfortunately that's been my experience.
You should have checked the UNi Xonar drivers before asking here for help. It should be common sense since you are on the UNi Xonar page. Now beside the fact that a particular issue could be fixed if one would check the latest UNi Xonar drivers, we also tend to give answers assuming the fact that you already have UNi Xonar drivers installed.
You are right and it's my fault. I have installed the Uni Xonar drivers (clean install, driver fusion cleaning and also used the driver cleaning inside you provided) and it's the same thing all over again. The latency although it's lower *ASIO usage, the popping sound it's there.
Hello,
I have a Xonar DX connected to the receiver and 5.1 speakers via a toslink. My computer uses Windows 7 64-bit and the driver is the 1.71 UNi Xonar. I use the DX basically for playing computer games on TV since it uses Dolby Digital Live to convert the uncompressed audio signals from games through the toslink. However, sometimes I play DVDs from my computer and send them through to the TV. For this, I would like to set "Digital Out" as default on the Windows sound panel so that the 5.1 DD and DTS audio signals from the DVDs can be passed through without any processing from the soundcard. But it doesn't work unless I check off the S/PDIF option on the Xonar panel. But I don't want that because it would process the audio signals and convert them to DDL. So, is there a way to make the "Digital Out" work so that I could get true pass-through when I play DVDs from the computer to the TV? Please help me.
If you want to pass through audio go to your playback devices and select "SPDIFF Pass through device" as Default.
thanks for your response. I don't have "S/PDIF Passthrough Device" on the playback devices but I have something there called "Digital Out". I tried setting that to default and it didn't work unless I check off the S/PDIF box on the Xonar panel which I don't want to because it would process the audio to DDL and then send it instead of leaving it alone and then sending it.
You're description/request is really confusing to me.
In Xonar panel at the S/PDIF Out option select PCM instead of Dolby Digital Live if you want the audio signals to be unprocessed by card's DDL.
You really should have "SPDIF Pass through device" entry in Windows Volume->Playback devices. I think the Digital Output you are seeing is not from the Xonar card (in the second line it says the audio card model). If it's not there, try uninstalling the drivers and installing them again. You could also try a different version of the drivers.
but if I select PCM, will it only send through 2-channel PCM instead of passthrough the DD and DTS signals? The "Digital Out" that I am seeing in the Windows Playback devices is listed as from the Xonar soundcard as well as the "speakers".
I had disabled the onboard soundcard in BIOS like the Xonar manual recommended, then installed the driver from the Xonar CD provided. Then I used the software, Drive Reviver, to update the driver to the latest version. I had a lot of problems with the updated driver as well as the original driver version, so I then installed the UNiXonar driver and all the problems went away except for the passthrough.
I am going to try another clean install.
Maybe you need to set the number of available channels in the video player's options. Which player do you use?
You might want to try different UNi Xonar driver releases, like 1.64 if you have 1.71 right now.
I played around with the install. When I installed the driver from the Xonar DX CD provided, I got "Digital Out" in the Windows playback devices. This driver is dated 2008-01-18. However, when I updated the driver, the "Digital Out" was replaced by "S/PDIF pass-through". This updated driver is dated 2010-10-28. When I then installed the 1.71 UNiDriver, the "S/PDIF pass-through" was again replaced by "Digital Out". The other option from the Xonar soundcard in the playback devices, "Speakers", remained the same no matter what driver I installed.
I think "Digital Out" and "S/PDIF Pass-through" are the same thing. It still doesn't work if I set that as default since I would also have to check off the S/PDIF option in the Xonar panel to get sound again. But it is not pass-through sound, but either PCM or DDL which is processed sound.
Ok, after more digging I found out that PCM does not send 5.1 channels sound, it only sends 2 channels. From Asus Xonar manual:
Q9: Will PCM sound output through S/PDIF be just 2 channels even with different analog output channels?
Answer: The S/PDIF protocol specification (IEC-60958) can only carry 2-channel PCM data or non-PCM AC3/DTS data. So, when a user selects PCM output for S/PDIF, the Xonar sound card will always deliver 2 channel PCM data through the S/PDIF output port. For attaining 5.1 channel surround sounds, you can select Dolby Digital Live or DTS Interactive encoding output from the S/PDIF out menu, which will allow the Xonar D2 to deliver 5.1 surround sound for games, DVD movies, and even stereo music.
Thank you for taking the time to response. You didn't have to do the research for me but I thank you. I already did the research so I know that PCM only sends 2-channel through the S/PDIF or toslink.
The Xonar DX has only the DDL, option, not the DTS Interactive. The problem is that activating the DDL (or DTS Interactive for that matter) means that the Xonar would process the sound. I want pass-thorough which means the audio is not touched before sending it down the toslink.
Setting "S/PDIF pass-through" or "Digital Out" as default should, in theory, give me that untouched-audio-before sending-it-through-the-toslink, but it doesn't work. I would like to set "Speakers" to default when I play games through the TV, and "S/PDIF pass-through" as default when I want to play DVDs through the TV.
Ok, I see. When you set S/PDIF pass-through/Digital Out as default , does the volume bar show activity when playing audio? That's the only thing I can test since I don't have a S/PDIF decoder.
I am afraid this problem is beyond me. Could be a bug with the drivers, a issue with your setup (player configuration and such) or some other thing. I hope someone else here can help or you'll find a solution or clarification searching through the internet.
When I set "Speakers" as default, the volume bar shows activity in the Xonar panel. It barely shows activity (one bar with volume set to 85%) in the Windows playback devices.
When I set "Digital Out" as default, the volume bar doesn't show activity in either the Xonar panel or Windows playback devices. But I get sound when I check off the S/PDIF option in the Xonar panel. But I would then have to choose between PCM or DDL which would mean that the sound gets processed instead of it being untouched.
Thank you for your help. The UNi Xonar driver solved all the other problems I had. In the Xonar panel, I couldn't activate Smart Volume, adjust the Volume control, test for speakers, or use the mute button before installing either the 1.71, 1.70, 1.64 versions of the UNi Xonar driver. I like to play DVDs from my computer because it allows me to add subtitles to it but I can live without pass-through and settle for processed sound in order to play those DVDs.
The amount of time I spent trying to get the Xonar DX to work pisses me off. It took a non-profit third-party developer to fix all the problems by its amazing UNiXonar driver Asus should be ashamed of themselves. I will never buy another Asus product.
Thanks for all your response and help.
Hello guys,
I have a problem with my Xonar DG; I can hear crackling sounds when I listen to music or play games.
The crackling usually happens when the music gets more "intense", "bass heavy" or "loud", I'm not even sure how should I explain it.
For example I can't hear crackling in ambient tracks but It's very noticeable with rock and metal genres.
I can hear similar crackling when I move the volume slider in my music player (Foobar2k, Winamp, Youtube), if it matters.
I've searched for similar issues and I found this post: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=357453
I'm experiencing the exact same problems as this poster, and he explained the situation much better than I could.
Some info if it's needed:
The source is FLAC with Sennheiser PC151 / HD439 (I tried both of them)
I tried with and without using ASIO. DPC latency is normal.
I've tried the official ASUS drivers and the UNi Xonar Drivers (v1.71, v1.64) on a fresh OS install
Sample Rate at 44.1 kHz
24-bit via foobar2k
Headphone or 2 Speaker mode (I tried both)
Headphone AMP: VOIP Mode (<32ohms) Pro-gaming mode (32-64ohms) (tried both)
Hi-Fi On
No special effects etc.
Windows XP SP3
ASRock G41M-VS3 R2.0
Core 2 Duo E8400
AMD HD 5770
4GB RAM
Onboard sound disabled in BIOS
Sorry for posting this wall of text here but I'm not sure what should I do.
I'm quite puzzled and I don't know if this is "normal" or not since this is my first soundcard.
Anyone had similar problems?
You should try and contact the poster from the topic forums.guru3d.com and see how he solved the issue.
It's not normal behavior, could be very be a hardware issue with the card . You could try your card in another PC, this could rule out any (EMI) interferences and such.
LE: If you find a solution or what is at fault, you should let us know as this could help others in the future.
I'm using now the low DPC latency Uni drivers and I have a new issue when playing music with WASAPI (push). The problem consists in the fact that whenever I click a video the sound mutes on my player and comes back when I stop the video. With the original drivers I didn't have this problem. I am also using XonarSwitch if it makes any difference.
This is the known issue with the latest 1.71 package. I'm using older 1.70 driver and everything is working ok.
Will try this version also, thanks for the tip. Can you tell me if it is normal that the windows mixer is still used by WASAPI or should it be bypassed? In my case the mixer is still functional when WASAPI is enabled, although I though that this bypasses it just like ASIO. Really hope that the previous released driver will solve my problem, gettin' really tired of this.
WASAPI is a Windows build-in component and the Windows "master" volume will work in case of WASAPI playback, but the individual per application volumes won't. If you want to know more about WASAPI you should really google it.
You can always go back to what you had before, there really is no need to bother us with your negative thoughts.
Just installed 1.70 and it solved my problem with muting sound when playing a video. The only thing that remains is the fact that whenever I close the tab with the video (youtube etc) there is a small stop on the sound, like a pop sound. This happens on the both event and push modes and currently have the buffer lenght at 2k.
No need to take every sentence I write as personal as you do. Didn't mean to offend anyone, just posted here my problems to get some suggestions/solutions if any. I'm really grateful for all your support and work you have done with the driver, and already expressed my positive experience with the brilliant XonarSwitch.
Hello I recently bought a Asus DGX and whenever i try to listen to something my pc freezes and i need to restart it.... Can someone please help me out with this
Thank you in advance .
Install UNi Xonar with Low DPC Latency or C-media Panel (without GX) configuration. If you still got the freezes it could be a hardware issue with the card.
There are a lot of forum topics with this issue. I suggest you check them out.
Thanks for the quick reply will try it now . Post back in a hour or so about the results
Yup the sound card is the problem i tried all combinations with the settings and nothing helped i guess ill just return it and get a new one .Thanks for the help anyway
Ok, let us know if the problems go away with a new card.
Hello, I was curious what do you think about Razer Surround Software? Is it better or worse from the Xonar Uni drivers' Dolby Headphones?
And if for example I'm going to play BF3 or Counter-Strike Global Offensive (and set the respectful settings ingame), is it still just emulating the effect or taking the 8 channels that the game produces and squeezing them into 2 channels? What about the driver's Dolby Headphones feature?
I have compared the Razer Surround Software to the UNi Xonar Drivers and the Xonar beats it out of the park. I own a Xonar DX soundcard and my solution right now is I got XonarSwitch and I put my Sample Rate to 44.1 KHz, 8 channel, Dolby Headphones, 7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter and Luis U's positional layout. I can FINALLY tell the difference between sounds coming from front right/left and back right/left.
With the Razer solution, the volume for sounds that are made in a diagonal position from you are quieter than the ones that are directly to you left,right, front and back. I think I tried the Razer solution with only 2 channels not 8, so maybe thats why I had that horrible effect.
At the end, I say give the Razer software a go and if it works for you, GREAT! I, however have found my perfect setup and wont be changing it at all.
Personally I don't know. I haven't played with Razer Surround Software because I am not that much interested in emulating surround sound. Maybe others that experimented with Razer Surround can shed some light.
Guys,
there is uspport for usb card Xonar U3?
A friend of mine have a DSG and this card don't support headphones dolby surround to have virtual surround with headphones... there's a way to enable it??
Thanks for your time!
U3 isn't supported and support can't be added into these drivers.
Currently there is no way to enable Dolby surround for the cards that don't support this by default.