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Hi,
You're doing such a great job commenting on every post. I have a question that I couldn't see answered yet:
Is front panel auto-detection supposed to work? I think I can only make it switch automatically if I have opened the Asus panel. I'm also using XonarSwitch and have a couple profiles set for headphones in the front panel and speakers in the rear. Is there a hook there to automatically change profiles upon detection of the front panel or would that require something akin to constant polling?
Thanks very much!
Hi, I don't know how front panel auto-detection is implemented. If it only works with ASUS Panel then the change is done by ASUS Panel instead of the drivers.
I don't make the XonarSwitch and it is separate from UNi Xonar drivers. You can give Giulo a heads up on XonarSwitch page about front panel auto-detection, maybe he can look at implementing it in XonarSwitch.
Are you going to be making drivers for the Asus Strix cards. The only drivers available are making my comp run in slow motion. If i disable the driver comp returns to normal.
You've replied to someone else's comment instead of posting a new comment.
No. I won't be making any drivers for Asus Strix cards.
There should be an option to turn off dynamic range compression for dolby headphone. It is on by default, and I was wondering if you could find it and make an option for it. The issue is that it causes clipping when there are multiple channels at high volume.
nevermind, I misunderstood how it worked.
Since I upgraded to Win 10 Threshold 2 I get bluescreen caused by cmudaxp.sys when I restart from standby.
Normal boot works without problems. Anyone else having these problems?
Using the latest drivers.
Bluescreenview says: C-Media Audio WDM Driver - 7.12.8.1794
Thanks
Have you tried reinstalling the drivers? If you still get the issue try with other drivers 1.80b if you use 1.80a.
I had this problem even before updating to threshold 2.
I have tried reinstalling the drivers without success.
I will try to install the 1.80b drivers, although I find it very suspicious that everything worked before the upgrade.
Thank you for the reply btw.
I didn't install 1.80b because I do not want to run Windows in testmode or to diable driver signature check.
But thank you for your help 🙂
I'm sure I will find another solution. Do you also use Windows 10 with threshold 2 btw?
Sry for the third reply in a row.
I fixed the problem with using the win 10 recovery function (only took minutes)...
Thanks again for all the help and the nice drivers.
EDIT: After a few restarts I get the bluescreen again. 🙁
This is regularly a problem for me as well. Had it on Windows 8.1 and now have it on Windows 10 threshold 2. Using a Xonar D2X in Low DPC mode with 1.80a; previously using 1.75a. A BSOD occurs every time I wake from sleep. Strangely there are always periods where the drivers work fine but once this problem arises, typically a few months from a fresh OS install, it occurs 100% of the time and uninstalling the Xonar drivers is always fixes the problem. When I was using 1.75a, uninstalling the UNi drivers and installing the official Asus drivers would produce the same problem. I have not yet had a chance to check the most recent official drivers against 1.80a.
If there is any way I can help further, I would love for this problem to be fixed. I typically resort to disabling sleep on my PC rather than give up use of my sound card.
I'm only writing to thank this work. Many thanks guys for such a great job. Im very happy with your drivers. Greetings from Perú!
Its so damn weird with mass effect and 5.1 sound. After installing c-media panel with gx enabled i have 5.1 sound working. After reseting system its stop working.... Anyone found solution ?
Why do these sound different than the official drivers? They sound warmer but less precise. Did you tweak some hidden EQ settings?
I didn't tweak any EQ settings. I don't see any reason for UNi Xonar to sound any different than the official drivers.
They do though. It seems that the middle and lower frequencies are boosted, the sound is warmer and the bass heavier and more spread, the soundstage ends up being a bit more spacious but the sound loses precision, probably because the higher frequencies get drowned. I'd think ASUS had EQ tweaks in their drivers, but I doubt that's the case. I also have a Creative Zx card installed. The official drivers make the STXII sound closer to how the Zx sounds (although the STXII sounds obviously superior).
I also thought that the official drivers sound differently. Sounding official driver came to me more.
I dont hear any difference please do blind tests , it could be only your imagination. Or maybe you are super duper audiophiles ?
Hello! I see on Asus website there is new driver version for My Xonar D1 And Windows 10 64-bit: It's the 1823, but it's not beta anymore! Will there be a new revision of unixonar with this new driver?
Hi. UNi Xonar 1.80a driver packages already use those 1823 drivers. Beta or non beta, they are exactly the same.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut doesn't support anything above Stereo on my Xonar DX. I don't think this is a Uni Xonar specific issue, as someone reported it with the stock Asus drivers as well, but I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone has ideas.
5.1 sound works in other games, including Fallout 4.
I've created custom black skin for Asus Xonar Essence STX. I hope you like it. Screenshot:
http://i66.tinypic.com/v5zh9e.jpg
Download link:
https://mega.nz/#!xwUXWB7S!mSRmnxk68q4UriRJq-tTIAGJmnG3dhiBpKiA2R12ARA
A more proper place for this would be this page. Please repost your comment there.
Ok, no probs 🙂
Nice downloaded
Is there any way to use HDAV1.3 with DTS HD MASTER with other program and not tru theather? because windows10 cannot run trutheather! (TMT)
Hey man, I tried posting another time but I see it got probably got buried by moderation.
I've installed Xonar Uni for my Xonar DG, I was upgrading it because I stupidly thought that the GX function could only be turned off in this driver. I un-installed the xonar dg driver, and than proceeded to install Xonar Uni. My current predictment is that I have a 5.1 surround system that is completely useless because applications are not using it (meaning browsers, video games, kodi, etc). I checked the FAQ and did everything suggested, Ive used the driver sweeper, and uninstalled using the exe for said process, I went through the recommendations for stereo up mix (if that is even my problem) and I've installed the driver now multiple times to no avail.
On the control panel of the driver I tested and noted that the columns emit the "pinging" noise for each corresponding image of said column, so I know the driver can communicate with each of the 6 columns, but if I run youtube, games, what ever, the sound comes only from the 2 side ones, with no bass enabled, resulting in a "crappy" sound. I'm running windows 10, and I'm currently considering on giving up and buying another sound card... please help.
Browser stuff can usually only produce stereo. If your 5.1 speakers cannot be set to decode this to 5.1, then you can have the Xonar do it by setting the Input channels to 2 and the Output channels to 6 and then enabling Dolby Prologic IIx decoding in the C-media Panel (don't remember the Asus one because I don't use it).
GX is only useful for pre-Vista games that need DirectSound3D/EAX support for 5.1. Otherwise it should be disabled to avoid problems.
Most modern games and Kodi should support 5.1 in Xonar cards just fine if properly configured. I'm playing Fallout 4 in 5.1 on my Xonar DX right now using Uni Xonar.
I have two Xonar sound cards, an HDAV1.3 Deluxe and a Xonar Essence ST. My problem is that on any release of card drivers including the original disc, any of the UniXonar drivers and with several different windows OS'; Vista, 7 and 8.1 (32 and 64 bit versions), using these cards with the H6 daughter card, in the audio center for either one or the C-Media panel, i can get no more than 2 speakers to show for the analog out....this is flipping driving me batty!!!! Is there any trick to fixing this?, could my H6 be bad (only have the one)? Both cards work great to 2 channels analog out...
Admin comment edit. Copied update from ASUS forums: Ok, the problem, it seems, is a bad H6 card.. what the nature of the faiure is??? , have not the slightest idea. Bought another H6 and all is fine now.
You've already brought this issue two times before. Please stop bringing this up.
Like before I don't know what to say, could be the H6 that's bad, I have no idea how to check that.
My H6 works fine on my STX II with 1.80b r3
Seems to be an issue on your side or an issue specifically with the Essence ST. Make sure the flatcable is inserted properly and in the right orientation.
@ CarvedInside
My Essence STXII is fixed and back in my system, yay! 🙂
Hi there. Sorry in advance, I'm not incredibly computer savvy. I have a Xonar Essence STX sound card on Windows 10 with Astro A50s and can not get any sound. I downloaded and installed UNi Xonar 1816/1823 v1.80a r3 When I go to playback devices and set either "Speakers ASUS Xonar essence STX Audio device ready" or "S/PDIF Pass-through device ASUS Xonar essence stx audio device ready " to "set as default device" i get absolutely no sound, but I see the little green bars lighting up as its detecting sound. I only get sound when i set "Headset earphone 3- ASTRO wireless transmitter" to "Set as default device" but the sound is very crappy without 7.1 surround.
I've read through comments and the website and just can't seem to get anything going. It's probably something incredibly easy to do but as i said this isn't an area I'm incredibly good at. I'd appreciate it if someone could help this dummy.
Astro A50 is a virtual 7.1 USB headset and comes with it's own USB sound card to produce virtual 7.1 sound.
Not 100% sure but i think the STX can send DDL over S/PDIF and so you could connect the A50 that way... it will totally defeat the point of having a premium STX card though as a pure digital output is just as good from a Xonar DX or something that costs 1/4 of an STX.
The STX shines when it comes to stereo analog output and stereo analog headphones output with the premium AMP and DAC of the STX series. In all other cases your better of with a different sound card. A50 + Essence STX is not a good combination at all imho.
In other words when you connect the A50 using USB to your computer the STX is doing absolutely nothing and everything will go through the USB sound card.
Connect it using S/PDIF and you might as well use the onboard solution as long as it supports DDL as AMP + DAC quality has no influence on the sound quality whatsoever in that setup.
The A50 probably comes with a driver and setup panel software. Maybe you can instal that and change some settings there to make it sound slightly better.
Personally i would ditch the A50 and get a decent (analog) stereo headphones so you can make proper use of the premium STX card you have.
Just installed 1816/1823 v1.80a r3
on HT OMEGA CLARO II.
on Windows 10.
Works perfectly and very happy with the sound quality.
I like it better than Sound Blaster ZXR which I just sold because it was rather boomy for my taste.
Thank you!
Just had another random High Pitch, constant noise coming from my soundcard to my headphones, with the latest uni drivers and fully updated Windows 10 pro 64bit (Threshold2 updated).
I'm honestly getting sick of my STX, it's killing my ears. And just the fact that it's seemingly random, means I have to always be on guard for it to happen.
I'm really hoping this issue gets fixed soon.
https://youtu.be/RJlFfcdiEEg
("video" of the issue, mainly for audio, it's at least 10 times worse in person and even worse still if you're wearing the headphones when it happens.)
Do you have OC and how many ram modules do you have?
I haven't OC'd anything. I have 4 ram modules installed.
updated video with annotations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqELNjFh0o
So it might be connected with the 4 RAM modules and/or OC because I had this noise for the first time (after using Xonar D1 for 5 years) when I upgraded to Win10, bought 2 additional RAM modules (4x4GB) few weeks later and then OCed my 2500K CPU for the first time. Turns out the newer modules, in spite of exactly the same model, were the single rank memory (the older ones are double rank - memory chips are on both sides of the PCB). After disabling OC, noise stopped (had it 2 times overall) and then I returned the new RAM modules so I'm not sure what caused it. Maybe Win 10 has some changes in memory management which causes troubles after OC or my processor can't handle 4 modules with different build (single vs double rank in each channel). Now I haven't had it for two weeks (without OC and with the new 2x8GB RAM modules)
BTW noise I had sounded like the noise you have when changing the sound volume (white noise) and it was very loud. Another difference is that to stop it I've just rewound the youtube video to the earlier part or mute sound.
Completely different system (am3 790FX/SB750), 2 sticks (double rank), tested without OC. Same problem on a DX.
PS: Sorry, I forgot to respond if it was under an OC'ed system a few weeks ago.