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Please remake this comment under XonarSwitch page. Also mention Windows 10 version and build number, your audio card, which Xonar drivers do you have installed, if XonarSwitch does not launch at all, if you get an error message.
Isn't comment section locked there? I didn't try to post, but it said so in the top message...
It wasn't actually locked, but yeah the original message above said that I would not approve any new messages. So it's perfectly fine that you've read that and posted initially here.
Is there any way to run two different audio sources simultaneously on Rear Headphone Out and SPDIF on an Essence STX II?
Running the Headphone as System default playback device and SPDIF Out through an Amplifier via Media Player Classic (or Foobar, or any media player). I prefer to do something else very often while the family is watching something else.
Right now, If I use SPDIF with Dolby Digital Live, it kills the Headphone Out. If I use SPDIF with PCM, both outputs are sounding the same 2.0 channels.
Previously had an Auzentech Bravura, which was capable to do this. (Basically its drivers were handling the headhpone jack as an individual output).
Adding to the problem, I need 2.0 out headphone and 5.1/7.1 DDL on SPDIF.
So in short, why comes the Headphone Out disabled (greyed out) if the SPDIF DDL becomes enabled?
I don't know of a way to change the driver behavior to keep rear headphones output enabled when enabling cards S/PDIF Dolby Digital Live.
You could use the headphone with the onboard sound card, or if the onboard card has DDL or DTS encoding use that and use the Xonar card with the headphones.
A trickier solution would be to make the video player encode the audio to Dolby Digital Live or DTS. I've described this here.
The only reason for me to buy the Essence STX card to use it with headphones, because of its decent audio quality (and Win10 drivers, which Bravura does not have). Nobody ever asked the question why on earth the headphone output disabled on a primarily "made for this" card with SPDIF in use? Weird to me...Pretty much zero relation should be between an analog and a digital/optical output.
So then I have to sell the card. đ
Thanks for the answer Carved. BTW, I do use the AC3Filter đ and no, the onboard Realtek does not even have an optical out.
You said you use the AC3Filter, but it's unclear to me if you've configured the AC3Filter to encode the audio to 5.1 AC3 or DTS and use Xonar's "S/PDIF Pass-through Device" as output.
I need to use 2 separate audio output, but the STX (neither the ASUS driver or UNi) is clearly not capable to do it the way I need them.
I doesn't really matter how it is configured.
Got a 4.1 speaker setup with an Onkyo Amp. The AC3Filter is setup to provide 4.1/upmix Stereo, the Bravura is also setup, to upmix if needed via DTS:Neo) and while I'm playing on a headphone as a default playback device, something else (either 5.1 source or upmixed DTS) is ongoing through SPDIF. The media players in use are setup to push audio through SPDIF.
Unfortunately the STX is either pushing the same audio on both headphone and SPDIF, or if DDL enabled, I got upmixed SPDIF only with a dead headphone out.
Was S/PDIF output enabled in the Xonar control panel? Because that could overwrite the S/PDIF Pass-through output with the one from the analog headphones.
I'm not sure how do you mean this. There is only one tick box to enable SPDIF on control panel (under the Analog Out selector). If it is not ticked, I got no Audio on SPDIF. If its enabled, I hear the same audio on the headphone and on the Amplifier with SPDIF PCM (2.0) format... Which makes no sense to me (it seems the sound card directly routes the Analog Out towards the SPDIF and plays the same audio on both and ignoring the Windows Playback Devices).
If you go and right click on Windows Volume->Sounds->Playback, you will have there a separate output device called "S/PDIF Pass-through Device". Using this as output is different from enabling S/PDIF in Xonar's control panel, which copies the analog out to S/PDIF and does not have it's own output device. Whereas, the "S/PDIF Pass-through Device" is a separate device which has it's own independent sound output.
Try this: disable (uncheck) the S/PIDF in the Xonar control panel, play some music over analog output, go to Windows Volume->Sounds->Playback->"S/PDIF Pass-through Device"->Proprieties->Supported Formats tab-> test the encoded formats. Do you hear any of those tests on the S/PDIF receiver?
Put the card back for testing last time.
No audio (no 2.0, no DTS, nothing) on SPDIF Pass-through Device unless the SPDIF tickbox ticked under headphones. At device properties none of the tests are making any noise.
Just a clarification, did the tests on the "SPDIF Pass-through Device" worked when you've enabled the S/PIDF in the Xonar's control panel?
I don't think I have anything else you could try.
Yes, used the SPDIF Pass-through Device as default playback device, which only feeds any audio towards the Amplifier if the SPDIF tickbox in software is enabled. On one side, it seems logical. If tickbox enabled, SPDIF works. But nonsense to have any effect on Headphones.
Hello There,
I have the same behavior as Taranis under Win10 when using the essence II STX 7.1 S/PDIF output as default sound device, with the tickbox enabled in the Xonar control panel.
=> When using Winamp with ASIO output. (Same as Foobar2000)
=> No problem with WASAPI.
If I use The DTS/AC3/etc. Passthrough output, in video players, then the headphones stay muted. only A/V receiver plays sounds, same when using DirectSound.
What i want: Key Shifting / pitching output from 440Hz down to 432Hz
1. Does this driver supports that - the one from Asus only pitches by 1 semitone (e.g. 440Hz to 115Hz)
2. Is this Uni Xonar driver open source? I would like to try programming it by myself x-)
1. No. It works exactly as with ASUS original driver in this regard.
2. These are modded drivers of the original drivers. I don't have the source code for the audio driver.
System sounds do not work on Windows 10 1903. Do you have any advice?
Did this started happening recently?
Check the solutions presented here.
CarvedInside your link helped me thx đ
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Which solution worked?
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I am sorry for my mistake. An application has turned off or muted system sounds that had to be turned back on. On earlier versions of win10 this was not the case.
Thank you again đ
Thanks so much for that help and download. It took me 2 days to find this page and solve the problem.
Hello.
I am using an Asus Xonar D2X soundcard and for 6 years it worked perfectly until this Sunday. I disconnected my pc and removed expension cards from it as I replaced collant inside my waterloop.
I than plugged everthing back and now the sound card doesnât output any sound at all trough SPDIF connector. I am using it for years connected to my receiver for DTS 5.1 upmixing and I also use a single 3.5mm stereo jack for my headphones. I am also using UNI xonar drivers.
I changed nothing in my system only removed the card out for maintenance and than it vent back inâŚno software was changedâŚI put it in the same slot(later I tried other ones too) I did plug in its molex power.
I must say card is working fine outputting sound to my headphones over its analog jack. What aint working is spdif. In windows it says it is plying sound but my receiver doesnât get any signal. There should be red light inside the optical connector and on the end of plugged toslink cable but there aint nothing.
It bugs me couse only digital aint working but that is also main reason for me to have sound card for my 5.1 system.
Is there any possible solution to âwake upâ the spdif to work, or is it physicly broken and I need to get another sound card?
Best wishes PrimoĹž Osolnik
Hello. I think that probably some component on the card became unsoldered or was damaged (from electrostatic discharge for example). Maybe you can find a person or a repair shop that repairs electronics that can fix it.
Not sure is it best place for this kind of question.
I have Xonar DX and Win 10 ver 1903 (18362.356), with latest update.
Which unixonar drivers are "the best" for this card atm? I'm gonna use it only to pair them with my Arctis 7 via aux cable (sound card->aux->wirleless trasmitter->headphones), to get better sound than using SSE3. I have usb mic so only drivers to get best sound for headphones. Cheers.
This is the right place. All drivers have same audio quality. If you don't know which one to go with, try with the v1.80a.
Since you are concerned with sound quality, I don't know if you get anything from the DX with your wireless headphones. With a dedicated sound card or DAC you want to use the analog output and that output not be converted to digital. The problem in your case is how the transmitter sends the audio signal, if it's sent as an analog signal then this is good. But if it's converted from analog to digital by the transmitter and the headphones have their own DAC(digital-to-analog converter) which converts it back to analog this would be bad and you won't see an improvement in sound quality by using the Xonar DX, it actually might be worse because of that analog to digital conversion. In the time I allocated to research this I could not find an answer to which kind of transmission it is. Maybe you find the answer by researching more, by contacting steelseries support or by A/B testing the headphones between USB and analog connections.
Win10 Pro 8GB, Xonar DX. Throughout 2018-2019, I've alternated between Asus' driver, Uni 1.71, 1.75 and 1.80, as each Win10 revision seemed to introduce a new series of crashes, mostly IRQL but sometimes Memory Management, especially but not exclusively when awakening from sleep or sometimes powering down. Before I claim that 1.71 did not resolve the wake-up issue, could it be that a complete uninstall and reinstall of any of the above drivers (rather than changing them) accomplishes something, whenever Windows 10 moves to a new release? Does it matter whether uninstalling via Device Manager vs. the Asus download vs. ??
Especially if you have problems you should uninstall the drivers before installing the same or other versions. Uninstall them from the control panel and restart. When installing check "Run driver cleaning before install" in the UNi Xonar installer. Try with "Low DPC Latency" and "C-Media Panel" configurations if you haven't.
Are you having those problems only if you install the Xonar drivers? Which motherboard do you have?
cmudaxp.sys is consistently the identified problem file.
Dell 0D441T.
Most recently, after using Device Manager in admin mode to uninstall the Uni 1.71 driver, I downloaded the Asus 1823 driver (again). I had to run the setup program twice -- the first time, it offered only to Uninstall (which I allowed), and (following a reboot) the second time, it proceeded to install the Asus driver. Things have been stable so far; I assume that the Asus installer had good reason to perform an uninstall even though I had supposedly done that already.
By the way, I am not a gamer. The only demand I place on my sound card is Cakewalk, but I've not experienced crashes while using that program.
Why didn't you use the uninstaller(s) from Control Panel-> "Programs and Features"? You may have had 2 entries there, one from the ASUS Xonar and one from UNi Xonar drivers. That would explain why when you ran the ASUS driver installer it showed the "Uninstall" page.
Anyway, if you run into problems again, first test the system without the drivers installed because memory issues will also cause drivers to fail.
I did not know that your advice to "uninstall them from the control panel" means Control Panel > Programs, not Control Panel > Device Manager. But now I know.
I still have two programs listed in Control Panel Programs: Asus Xonar DX Audio and Uni Xonar Audio driver.
Most importantly, though, no crashes so far!
Win10Pro - Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362
Xonar Essence STX , Driver UNi-Xonar-W10-1825-v1.81a-r2
Google Chrome Version 77.0.3865.90
Surfing Youtube using chrome, suddenly sound cracking after that high pitch sound came out from speaker (lucky didn't use headphone,otherwise eardrum is gone ), need to perform PC restart, it happens second times within this month ( randomly )
Check FAQ Q&A18.
Before your current Windows 10 version, you had a previous Windows 10 version or you had Windows 7 or Windows 8? Did you had this issue then or it only started with current version?
Yes, start from this month, version remain 1903, i check updated history.
Last update is cumulative Window 10 version next (10.0.18362.10022) (KB4508451)
Let's see if other people report having the same problem.
You could try uninstalling the recent Windows updates and temporally block Windows updates to see how it goes.
Hello ! I really appreciate all your hard work , but none of these drivers worked on a clean install
of Windows 8.0 (RTM) Box version . The same case here , in full details, just like mine :
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1061548-xonar-dx-on-windows-8-cp-build-7250-either-32-or-64-bit/
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Does the UNi Xonar installer detect the card?
Have you tried to manually installing the drivers like I described here at Possible Solution 1? Try that and also Possible Solution 2 from the same page.
Hi,
the drivers are better than the official one, but the card doesn't sound like i remember on windows 7... are there some settings that could improve the quality?
i tried to play with the equalizer (listening music) but i miss something in the sound.
keep up the good work
Thank you
Matteo
Check Xonar best settings guide and check "Disable Listen to this device and Microphone and Line In Monitoring" section from this page. You could also try with different driver versions.
Tell me your card and which driver version you have installed.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply!!
my card is a Xonar D2X drivers are UNi Xonar W10 1825 v1.81a r2 .
i'm trying c-media panel for settings. i will try your suggestion this evening. very much appreciated, if you have other suggestion pls tell me, i don't want to buy a new audio card đ
Thanks
Before version 1903 OS Build 18362.418 both speakers and mic were working perfectly running on UNi-Xonar-W10-1825-v1.81a-r2. But couple of weeks back when I updated to 1903 build 18362.418, my headset mic stopped working and when I checked Listen to device/Monitory, I get double sound signals. Apparently if I checked Listen to device/Monitoring, whatever I am listening be it from games, music or movies, I get double sounds, very echoy.
What I tried to do was uninstall the driver, restarted and installed the stable version UNi-Xonar-1823-v1.80a-r3 and now I have no sound coming out at all and the I believe is not working at all too. Tried to re-sit my soundcard and reinstall the drivers but didnt work.
Card is Xonar Essence ST (not STX version)
1. If you go to Device Manager (can open it by it's name in search), is the card detected under "Sound"? What is the status of the Xonar card (working, missing,etc.)?
If the card is properly detected and working, do the following:
2. When playing audio, if you go to Windows Sound (right-click on Windows Volume tray icon-> Sounds or if missing type in Windows search: "change system sounds"), go to Playback, for the Speakers (ASUS Xonar...), do the volume meter shows activity?
3. If you right click on Windows Volume->Open Volume Mixer-> check if "mute" is active for any of the entries.
What type of driver is necessary to me? I have Windows10, version 1903, and OS-Build 18362.418. Fortunately my personal computer is in a test mode. I want one whose digital signature works properly.
Depends on which sound card do you have. The driver download table, has a column "Requires Test Mode.." which lists for which cards the driver does not have a valid driver signature. For the STX II card, any driver ending with "b" like the v1.80b drivers have a valid digital signature. For most of the rest of the Xonar cards the 1.81a, 1.80a, 1.71.1 etc.
Oh, sorry. I have a sound card "Xonar HDAV 1.3 Slim". I can't find an adequate driver.
None of the UNi Xonar drivers have a valid driver signature for HDAV cards. The thing is, all .sys and .dll driver files are digitally signed, only the XonarHDAV.inf file is not.
Can I install a driver without digital signature? How?
With Test Mode or by Disabling Driver Signature Verification.
I am using the test mode...
Windows 10 Pro 1903 ver, build 18362.418.
I5 6600
mobo: ASUS h110m-d with 8GBs of RAM
sound card: AIM SC8000 (CM8787)
I can install drivers without any problems, but i have no sound no matter what I do. I tried installing various versions of drivers, tried installing drivers with âDisable driver signature enforcementâ option with no effects. I get sound on Windows 7, but not on Win 10 :(. Is there a solution?
Also I aprecciate your hard work!