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Amazing! Icewind Dale 2 doesn't crash anymore and the infinate sound loop glich when a program crashes is gone too! And to imagine ASUS tech support recommended I reinstalled windows. LOL! Good job!
Can GX work at XAudio2?
thank you
If it doesn't work, then I can't help with this.
It is not reliable using ears
how can I know it works?
Thx
GX lets you activate EAX options in games so the only way to know if its working is if there is an option letting you enable EAX (but it has to be supported by the application).
Isn't GX emulate EAX, so EAX can be used in these non-EAX games?
NO. There isn't such thing. Games need to be built with EAX for EAX to work.
All wersions after and including 1.30 works just perfect. No blue screens, no installing problems, just pure pleasure listening to my stereo, movies and games 🙂
Keep it up! Great work!
So... that all my 2.0 audio gets upmixed to 5.1 is a bug? Jeez, and I spent hours to figure out how to prevent this... (worked fine on Win2k btw, I only got those issues after switching to win7)
in terms of bit perfect playback, is it actually bad to run the card at a higher sample rate the music is in? e.g. I have it at 192kHz all the time so I dont have to switch when my playlist comes to random few of my 192kHz tracks.
if so, then it would be nice if you could modify the driver so that it always sets the correct sample rate of the file playing automatically
Yes its bad. I haven't heard of 192 KHz music files. I'm just saying maybe the files aren't really 192 KHz.
Auto sample rate would be great unfortunately I can't do that.
hi-res vinyl rips are sometimes done in 192KhZ 24 or 32-bit.
but why is it actually bad? you dont have to upsample like you would need to in case the output sample rate is lower than the actual sample rate of the file playing. so shouldnt it then be within the full specs of the sample rate if you play for example a 44.1 file wiht 192 output? so isnt 44.1 basically fully included in those 192 anyway?
I can playback files in mpc-hc with reclick bit-perfectly (as it then says in brackets) by bypassing the internal resampler and with my analoge output set to 192kHz. but as with my music, most videos I play here arent 192kHz at all. so wouldnt have reclock then to tell me that its not bit-perfect after all, to playback stuff which is not native 192kHz with 192 sample rate audio output set?
Im wondering, can the latest original driver (either from the asus package or from your uni setup) do automatic sample rate switching?
isnt that supposed to work in general when "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device"is checkmarked in control panel?
1) It isnt. The thing is that the card has to convert (up-sample) from 44.1 to 192 KHz, and because of this the loss of sound quality. I cant find now the information about this.
2)As I told you before, Automatic sample rate doesnt work regardless of the drivers. Only ASIO 2.0 has automatic sample rate. That option is for something else.
The player you use for play your music files will switch to the right sample rate witch is specified in the file. No matter the sample rate of the card. If you use Foobar, you will see in the status field of the player the actual playing sample rate.
Setting the sample of 192khz in the audio card will give you the max of that card. You will have also 192khz sample rate on digital out of the STX. Just forget the "bit perfect"! Setting the sample rate on the card to 192khz is the best. The internal processing in the card will happen at 192khz.
And, yes it exist music files at 192khz. You can find an buy it at the HDtraks site, witch is a place for hi-res music. I recommend you to change the sample rate for the music file you want, from 44khz to 192khz using Audition and converting afterwards in ogg files. Ogg Vorbis is the only witch accept compression at this sample rate. In mp3 the max sample rate is 48khz. This is not bad, but ogg files from 192khz files is best (in my opinion). You can use FLAC compression (witch is bit perfect), but the resulting file size will increase considerably. OggVorbis is a good compromise.
A last detail: you can not hear well the difference of all above if you are not using a very good stereo system for amplify what you`ve get from the STX. And I will repeat again: Asus STX is far from a hi fidelity audio card.... No matter what they say in their lab measurements (you`ve get in the very nice package of that card)...
the thing is when I do set it to 192kHz then I think that it actually sounds a tiny bit worse than leaving it at the same sample rate of my input file. I could be wrong of course, but Ive tried it several times and each time I have this feeling :S
but I am not going to touch my sound files, no way. not only because I dont trust this, also because its too time consuming. this is not a solution. the output sample rate should be changed on the fly by the card automatically.
Ok, I don't really get this working. I'm listening to my music using foobar2000 and have my receiver connected to my Xonar DX via digital out. As an output device, I can choose "speakers" and "digital out". Furthermore, in the control panel I got the choices "dolby digital live" and "PCM" at the S/PDIF tab. But there's no combination which sends a stereo signal to my receiver :/
Check to see if you have Audio Channel to "2", if so change it to 6 channels if you use 5.1 speakers for example.
I suppose you didn't checked the Enable stereo upmix when installing. Also check if you havent enabled by accident a DSP plugin in foobar that might cause this.
is there any chance that the clicks and pops when using wasapi could get fixed with your drivers? there seems to be a really old version of vista drivers which work fine with wasapi using windows 7 (6.12.8.1756). maybe its possible to transfer only this relevant part of code for wasapi from that old version for to the lastest drivers here?
"The only drivers I've found that work are the ones that were shipped on the CD that came with the card -- they are not available on the download site. The version is 6.12.8.1756. They appear to be Vista drivers they are so old, but they do work on Win7 without the pops and clicks problem"
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?SLanguage=en-...
The thing is that I dont have access to the driver code. So sorry can't help with this.
BUG: If I change on-the-fly (while playing something) it stop working (example: from SRS to Dobly).
My sound card seems to not work with this drivers:( I have Xonar DX, and after installtion i have no sound.. ane a red dot on my speaker icon:(... buu:(
Update: 1.31, 1.30 doesn’t work – i tried few tricks but no clue, i know 1.27 works.. but this one makes problem with Audio Panel..:((
Works fine for my XonarDX on Win7(x64). You did reasign the standard output after installing the drivers, right?
If you mean the sample rate , then yes.
Have you tried the two test builds and/or the possible driver signature workaround?
man. thanks for the drivers that asus fail to provide.
but i am at my wits end with this god damn card and looking at selling it.
1. if you're running a program or game that crashes, the last bit of audio playing during the crash will stutter indefinitely until you disable and re-enable the driver (works half the time), or reboot.
whether this is the drivers or hardware i'm not sure, but its completely unacceptable for a premium card. even onboard audio doesn't do this.
2. forcing asio at 100% volume makes music production with this card miserable and worrying. i've blown my ears off several times already, and if these were speakers, they'd be blown.
i've tried and tried to get the asio 1.0 drivers instead, in the hope that it'll be like the asio on any other decent card, but after installing and enabling asio 1.0 in audio software it either fails to initialize or crashes the program.
3. the asio 2 driver often crashes during audio production sessions, you get an indefinite audio jam similar to when a program crashes.
4. with the last few driver releases, both official and uni, 7.1 channel support seems to have perished. i used front/back/side/sub channels to give more headroom and then let the card mixdown to 2channel.
now only front left/right channels are available, both in asio and directsound mode. http://uppix.net/8/e/3/08cb05178e35a368e00ce832e2...
i've had a fair few soundcards before this, this one's hardware is superior, but its rendered useless by the sack of shit drivers asus seldom releases for it.
what to do..
has anyone found a remedy for any of the points listed, fixes for points 1 and 4.
1) Are you having GX enabled? I haven't encounter anyone in a long time having a problem like this with GX disabled.
2) I don't understand what are you saying , is quality bad when volume with ASIO is 100% or is very loud?
The drivers are bad but not this bad. Maybe your soundcard has some hardware issues.
Disabling silent installation seems to do bad things to the installation process. With a Xonar DX on Windows 7 64-bit disabling this setting caused the installation progress to go very slowly, and never stop (once it reaches 100% nothing happens). PC sat doing nothing indefinitely during shut down, forcing me to do a hard power off. Not exactly a good start on a brand new W7 installation.
This should be the case, I think the problem isn't non-silent installation, maybe the installer hangs because it cant install the drivers (because of driver signature missing or something like that). Does the sound work after you restart?
Ive also had this problem a few times. the main problem here seems to be the startup of my computer, sometimes the card doesnt really start, usually when it does NOT those clicking sounds during the startup of windows. if it does and it also does so at the beginning of the installation, then it should work fine. if it doesnt, just turn off your computer completely and repeat until the card does proper clicking again and then try to reinstall the drivers again.
I will try to install 1.31 again - but im not sure if this change anything.. cause i had also a yellow triangle in device management.. which is not good 🙂
WTF… it works.. I just install it while music playing and ASUS shitty driver on board.. And its just work.. Asus driver gone.. wierdo..
Unfortunetely after reboot no sound, and same scenario.. In device mgmt yellow triangle with notification about driver is digitaly unsigned.. Hm no clue what to do.. I can’ see device in control panel even..
had these drivers for a couple of months now, damn near perfect truly made a great effect on my onkyo 805 amp, listening.
wondered if you guys could answer this question for me, i read somewhere previously in this site that if you put the master volume above 61% the soundcards limiter effects the sound? is that true? also i have the drivers allows applications to take exclusive control & give exclusive mode both checked is that okey?
I think you are referring to this.
But don't know how to answer to your questions..
Don't know, I recommend that you let them unchecked.
Ok i made it by reconnecting card to othet pci-e stick. Somehow it works after reboot but now 5.1 is not working properly. In Asus drivers it works fine in AIMP, in Youtube Center doesnt works. Now its like this.. Aimp center is not working.. Youtube same.. but while im testing it on windows sound configuration or in Unixonar Audio center all works fine... hehe incredible 😛
Yeah perfect.. not working again - I'm.. no words to say..