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CarvedInside :
Download links are at the bottom of the page. There is a button with light blue stripes “Download latest drivers”.
Oops, sorry. I was pressing CTRL+F to search for "Download" and didn't find anything. It's because the download link is an image.
I've now installed the driver. The "Low DPC Latency" version. I wanted to test whether this actually does bring down DPC. It does not. Actually, even when I uninstalled the standard driver (I have a Xonar D1) and booted windows without any sound driver (on-board sound chip is disabled in the BIOS), the 700μs DPC spikes every few seconds were still there.
It's a fresh Windows 7 x64 install, with all Windows Updates applied and no anti-virus software installed (and I disabled the Windows Defender service). I've read about the effect the HPET can have, and wanted to try that, but when I disable it in the BIOS, Windows 7 won't boot; it waits forever during startup, showing the booting animation forever.
But this isn't that important, I guess. It's just the geek in me wanting to try stuff out. dpclat.exe, even though there are spikes of 700 every 1 second, says "This machine should be able to handle real-time streaming of audio and/or video data without drop-outs." And indeed I don't get any kind of audio dropouts or stutter in any game. Just wondering how other people are able to get a constant DPC of 80-100.
In your case Low DPC latency can't really help with the spikes, because their not caused by the sound card.
For more information and some guidelines to a lower DPC latency read this page and its comments.
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lum1n :
Got a problem with EAX games, I have Xonar DX, latest unixonar drivers, Win7x64, Logitech X-540 5.1 acoustic, everything is working, but not my center channel- it’s silent in games such UT2004, UT3, STALKER1-2-3, Alpha Protocol. My mode is set to gaming and GX is enabled. Every speakers are working, but not the center one… I tried everything, can u help please?
P. S. Center channel isn’t working only in games with EAX.
The UniXonar drivers are disabling GX. Even if you enable it, it won't work. But GX doesn't work right anyway. The ASUS implementation of EAX is very crappy. Almost nothing from EAX is actually implemented in the emulator. It just tells games that EAX is supported, but when the games then try to use it, it doesn't work and sounds are missing.
In other words, Asus is lying to its customers. They claim to support EAX, but they actually don't.
Oh no... I just returned my X-fi to the shop 'coz X-fi is a crap and now Xonar... i'm fuckin' tired of all this. 🙁
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Virus :
Read my post above, GX is a crap. Disable EAX/GX and play without it, there is NOT any solution for missing effects/no sound, because Xonars DO NOT support EAX3/4/5. It’s a big f***** lie !
Actually, according to alcapsviewer it do support EAX 1,2 and 5... And I, actually, don't have missing sounds... just center speaker problems. All voices and sounds comes from 2 frontal speakers, and I got sounds from rear also... 🙁
P. S. Just tested this with RM 3D sound 2.3 (http://audio.rightmark.org/download.shtml). Everyhing is fine in software mode- center speaker works. When GX mode enabled- center speaker becomes totally SILENT. Can u fix it? Or is it impossible? I mean not missing sounds, but proper using of channels in hardware mode?
I can't fix this.
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lum1n :
Actually, according to alcapsviewer it do support EAX 1,2 and 5…
The driver advertises EAX support. But EAX 5 is not implemented. Only 1 and 2 are (EAX 1/2 is very common and implemented even by many on-board sound chips.)
If you run an EAX 5 game that uses EAX effects, you will get distorted sounds instead of the actual effects or no sounds at all.
With EAX1 or EAX2 same thing. Center channel not working. BTW, Virus, I bought this card, 'coz I hate Creative. Had 2 cards no support. Seems same thing with ASUS...
Creative dropped support for older cards like older X-Fi models and Audigy. Newer X-Fi Titanium and up are supported by new HDA drivers and should work nice in Windows Vista/7/8.
If you want EAX3/4/5, buy: http://us.store.creative.com/Sound-Blaster-XFi-MB...
Hello!
There is a bug in booth official and unified driver too. When i plug in the earphone to the front audio panel, the xonar control panel turns off the dolby and the virtual 7.1 settings, when i set the output with mouse, its ok. How can i fix it?
Seems I got defective Xonar DX, Asus told me that it's not driver issue. I'll take it back to the shop tomorrow... 🙁
P.S. Anyway, it sounds better than Creative X-Fi Audio that I had before. 😛
Actually the Xonars can do EAX5 but thru emulation and GX mode has to be on for the emulation of EAX5 to work. Of course its not perfect as it guessing. While GX mode is disabled, EAX1/2 doesnt work and the emulation of EAX5 is disabled.
EAX to OpenAL translation
No this is not emulation, it ONLY force capability flags. Deassemble GX files (HsSvr.dll/HsMgr.exe) and check it yourself (if you know x86 assembler).
So would it be possbily to set flags for Eax 3 and 4 too?
Yes it is and HsSvr is doing that also, some functionality can be disabled on certain cards by can be override by registry keys, but it's a bad idea to use HsSvr. It's poor coded piece of crap ...
GX can be usable for Phoebus and ThunderFX cards. Those cards drives have a new server client based GX design and also are using sAPOs ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/h... ) , not crappy GX for Magic Sound and other effect.
Well, I'm still running good old XP.
So are you saying that when I add certian registry keys EAX 3 and 4 can be enabled? (I'm thinking of Games like Cod 2 btw).
Another question, some User released an Asus Xonar driver mod which allowed Dolby Home Theatre to run on thoose xonar cards. Now I'm just wondering if there are differences between e.g. the Dolby Headphones DSPs, does anyone know?
And yes, I know that you really don’t like EAX 3 4 or 5 on Asus Cards but I never had an creative card to compare to.
Cheers
I do not know how GX is done on Windows XP and I do not care about it. Windows XP died for me in 2006 ...
Registry keys for Windows Vista/7 GX:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}007Settings]
"HsSwitch"=hex:00,00,00,00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareC-MediaHook]
"UseHookSwitch"=dword:00000000
"DigitalOutEncoder"=dword:00000000
"Enable"=dword:00000001
"OverwritePolicy"=dword:00000001
"FakeEAX50Support"=dword:00000001
"FakeEAX40Support"=dword:00000001
"FakeEAX30Support"=dword:00000001
"TranslateEAX30"=dword:00000000
"TranslateEAX40"=dword:00000000
"TranslateEAX50"=dword:00000000
"DumpOSCPCM"=dword:00000000
"LogFilePrefix"="e:"
"LogAPITable"="[OSC][HKD][FOC][DSI][DSC][D3B][D3L][DSB][KSP][NTF][WAS][WAV]"
"LogToFile"=dword:00000001
OverwritePolicy - will enable HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareC-MediaHook values
UseHookSwitch - use HsSwitch value or ignore it
Enable - Enable HsSvr (GX)
FakeEAXxxSupport/TranslateEAXxx - enable spoofing Direct Sound functions with a fake EAX code.
DumpOSCPCM - dump RAW PCM data
LogToFile - create a log file
LogFilePrefix - path to log files, log file will be named HookLog_.txt
LogAPITable - what to log:
OSC - OISA related log
HKD - Hook DLL (HsSvr) related log
FOC - focus related log
DSI - DirectSound Interface
DSC - DirectSound Capture Interface
D3B - DirectSound 3D Buffer
D3L - DirectSound 3D Listener
DSB - DirectSound Buffer
KSP - KsProperty ie. Kernel Streaming
NTF - DirectSound Notify Interface
WAS - Windows Core Audio Interfaces (ie. MMDevice API)
WAV - Wave Out Interfaces
The keys didn't exist in my registry so I added them but it didn't make a difference, Cod 2 still doesn't allow me to use EAX 3. You said that the Phoebus and ThunderFX cards use a different version of GX, are you using GX from theese cards too?
No, this is normal, old GX for Vista/7.
My C-Panel isn't opening, how do I fix that? Windows 8RP x64.
If you followed the "Regarding WIN8 CP/RP support" notes, then for now there is nothing you can do.
Windows 8 driver need! 8(
yea, and 8 is due to RTM in the next few days and still no movement from Asus yet... its the only bit of kit that is not going to work out the box. sucks 🙁
Hi all again. I have installed Win7 32bit just to check how the driver for Xonar DS works with it.
It was done beacause I have a problem when playng files with samplerate higher than 48kHz under WinXP (see previous page).
I found that the sample rate problem was fixed for WIN7 drivers.
Is there a way to find the difference and correct it for WinXP Uni driver?
Win 8 RTM is already leaked
UniXonar installs fine and ASUS CP works fine on first start on the 9200 Enterprise W8 x64 leak.
I disabled signature enforcement, and then installed the low DPC driver preset, and then went to ASUS CP to enable S/PDIF
Sorry to say this but I can't fix this.