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I cannot comment on the audio quality. The control panel does not work for me, because I need to switch between FP headphone and rear-panel speaker output, and this control panel lacks FP headphone as an output option.
Thanks for all your hard work. Going to try your drivers with the Asus panel now.
If you didn't changed back the drivers already, to change the between FP headphone output an rear you have switch Output Device in the upper left corner from "Oxygen HD Rear" to "Oxygen HD Front Panel" .
The Official and previous Uni drivers allowed me to enable "Generic Hardware Sound" in some games when selecting GX mode (Dungeons and Dragons Online specificly) With GX mode off, only software sound is available, and loses all positional effects. With this C-Media Contol Panel, even with Xear3D selected (which is all GX mode really is) only software sound is available. Also, while I can turn on the 7.1 Virtual Surround Shifter in this new control panel, the screen that allows you to adjust the virtual speaker positions doesn't show up. The speaker test screen changed to the speaker position settings screen in the Asus control panel. Subjective... Bass seems enhanced, perhaps richer, or at least playing a wider range, than it was with the Asus Panel. The individual volue controls in the C-Media panel are a big help for setting up speakers.
I will release a GX mod enabler. When its ready I will send an email to you to test it.
Greetings,
I downloaded the drivers, removed my Asus ones via the Device Manager and uninstalled the Asus Control Center.
The drivers installed correctly and I get sound, but I do not have access to the UNi Control Center. When I click on the icon in my Control Panel nothing happens.
Can you help?
T
The asus default icon in tray is no more, look for another icon with Green&Blue and has Xear 3D text typed. If it doesn't show, try reinstalling. What OS you have so I can very this.
Windows 7 - 64bit
I did reinstall the drivers and I still don't have the control center available.
T
Other guys reported that it worked fine with win7 and they had the Control Center. Most likely something is broken on your side.
With the normal drivers, Asus Control Center takes over the default C-media Control Center, and even if you find the C-Media Control Center file and launch it , it will run the ASUS one. So maybe that setting remain there and because this build doesn't have Asus CC, it doesn't show anything. Please try this: uninstall, restart, registry clean (with ccleaner),restart and install again. Also don't remove the card from device manager, just uninstall the drivers.
Hi,
I really appreciate your hard work and it is really nice to see someone else who is also kind of addicted to this sound card. I use my D2X since it was released and I am in love with it. The driver never was my favorite but the sound quality somewhat made me forget about it. Prefer the original C-media interface. In my opinion a sound card control interface should just work doesn't need to look neat, you usually set it up once. Sadly I don't have a good jack-jack cable to do Rightmark tests to help you but I can write my listening experience.
The first huge difference between C-media and ASUS driver version the amount of sound volume. The sound volume almost half of the ASUS version. To reach the same loudness in the new driver I set the volume to 15 and with the ASUS driver I got the same with 5. Well it's more than 60% then. =)
It doesn't really bother me actually because if I watch movies I can use 100% sound volume in the settings and with ReClock it is just perfect since volume affects if the sound is bit perfect or not. (Forever argumenet like which Linux distro is better, never mind 🙂 )
I always use foobar2000 (latest beta 3 now) with Wasapi or ASIO output. I have music files from 16 bit / 44.1 KHz to 24 bit / 192 KHz and I usually listen .flac only so encoding doesn't really affect the sound quality.
What I noticed with new drivers, that Wasapi mode sounds now like if I would use the older ASIO driver and output. Warm, soft but still dynamic why I am in love with this sound card. ASUS driver with Wasapi doesn't sound good.
Well I am not sound card engineer so I cannot tell which way it should be but with hew ASIO driver there is no volume control at all, only in foobar2000 which is not enough for a headphone I almost got deaf, gladly my AKG still works.
I find also weird that 32 bit mode appeared since the Xonar DAC supports 24 bit / 192KHz max. The sound also different I can tell which ASIO version is which, the difference is clearly audible for me. Previously Flexbass had effect on ASIO output now not but even without that the new ASIO sounds good I wouldn't say it is worse it is a little bit different but I still like it. Cannot really compare since the volume differs a lot. About GX 2.5 I cannot tell much it always crashes my games and it is hard on CPU even I have an unlocked Phenom II 720 BE with 4 cores, sometimes it makes L4D 2 unplayable and Oblivion always crashes from GX 2.5 so I try to avoid it.
DPC latency also became lower around 300 us when I listen music, previous driver had it's peak around 700-800 us for me with normal usage, WLAN enabled.
I wish I could somewhat help with my experience.
The driver I modded was based on Xense 1788 driver, so probably thats why it appeared 32 bit mode in ASIO.
I figured you didn't installed the ASIO Patch. Please check the ASIO 1.0 Patch from here. Release notes are here at the bottom of the page.
LE: See how music sounds with ASIO 1.0 Patch, if it sounds like the old asio you where mentioning.
I didn't change back ASIO, because I was hoping the original from C-media will work fine, haha I was naive.
Now managed to run the ASIO patch well, previously it didn't want to work I don't know why, but now yes, it sounds like with the original .1777 ASUS driver but the volume is the half with exactly the same settings. Flexbass now has it's effect and Xear3D spectrum meter works now.
Hi again,
I did some additional tests with HQ music and I found the following, using latest foobar2000 of course:
True stereo 24 bit / 96KHz flac files (Juno Reactor - Inca Steppa)
With ASIO -> All of the 6 speakers have sound I have good bass (Xear 3D has no effect on anything)
With Wasapi -> No matter if I use 6 ch input or not I have no bass, Flexbass doesn't work.
With DirectSound -> if I use 2 ch input Flexbass doesn't work, but if I change to 6 ch input then it starts to work. Really weird in 2 ch to 6 ch it should upmix the music.
In windows sound control and Xear3D panel I chose 24 bit / 96KHz settings. Well this kind of quality is always hard on the sound card and it never worked as I think it should have so I cannot really tell what is good or not in case of HQ music.
6 Channel DTS CD works well if it comes to bass and channel output arrangement.
I can make some test with 24 bit / 192KHz sample also if it helps something.
<del datetime="2010-08-21T14:43:36+00:00">Did you used ASIO 1.0 patch A? </del>
"Really weird in 2 ch to 6 ch it should upmix the music." The stereo upmix is disabled compared to Asus original drivers.
Can you give me more details of your setup like what speakers do you have, what OS. With directsound 2ch Flexbass worked on previous drivers, also on UNi Xonar 1.0(1) driver?
Thank you for you're extensive feedback.
Ahh then that's why I couldn't hear the stereo movie in all my speakers.
My OS is Windows 7 Professional 64 bit and I use and oldie Fujitsu Siemens 5.1 channel active speaker set. It looks small but if the sound card fine tuned well it "blows my head off". Currently cannot afford a better one. For stereo and more serious listening I use my AKG K412P. People can laugh but it has 10 times better sound than a Sennheiser PC 350 or similar Sennheiser ones. Semi open headphones are not that popular at Sennheiser.
I cannot recall clearly if it did work well with UNi Xonar I installed and uninstalled these 3 drivers countless times now, hehe.
I dont hear difference listening music in pure stereo 2.0,44.1,HF mode without any ENABLED distortion and perversion like “dolby”-”dickolby”.
Instead of doing a mix of ASUS drivers and C-Media drivers would not be better to modify the original C-Media 8788 drivers without having to use ASUS control panel?
For the 8738/8768 are already done http://code.google.com/p/cmediadrivers/
For example the original 1788 driver is nowhere to be found. The latest original drivers that you can download for CMI8788 are 1773 for XP and 1777 for Win7.
Just an FYI, I just did a clean install of W7/64 and the Control Center is now working.
Thanks for your help. I'll let you know how the performance is once I've played a few games and whatnot.
T
Another piece of info...
I play EQ2 which does recognize EAX extensions. Using this driver package the game doesn't give me the option for EAX.
Do I need to put the ALchemy files in the directory or something like that?
T
I also found the new control panel didn't launch in the taskbar. I had to go into control panel and find it, launced it from there and set the Show Icon option, and it worked from then on. WIndows 7 x64 with a Xonar DX
In Xear 3D Control Panel there is the HP Advance Settings like in the ASUS Xonar Control Panel where can i change headphone gain settings?
There's a way to change headphone gain in the new Xear 3D Control Panel?
to change the between FP headphone output an rear you have switch Output Device in the upper left corner from “Oxygen HD Rear” to “Oxygen HD Front Panel”.
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to change the between FP headphone output an rear you have switch Output Device in the upper left corner from “Oxygen HD Rear” to “Oxygen HD Front Panel”.
I mean HEADPHONE GAIN, in the ASUS Xonar Control Panel i can set it to match Headphone Impendance.
In XEAR 3D Control Panel i can't find it and the volume is too low for good listening.
Here is a screen og what i mean: http://www.iouppo.com/lite/pic/a339cb75392bb4ccce...
Maybe this is what you are looking for.
Hi,
my card is a Xonar DS but ex xear 3d has no funktion? When i put it on nothing will be change.
Xear 3d is something like GX function. I have updated this page with a guide on how to enable GX .
For a better understanding how it works, with the origin Asus drivers the HsMgr.exe and HsMgr64.exe will be startet as own tasks. I made the steps from the guide and then rebbot my pc but the 2 exe wont be displayed in taskmanager. Is this right? I use win 7 64 bit.
Sorry for my bad english.
Yes with the original (normal) drivers HsMgr.exe & HsMgr64 will start with Windows. With this driver and Uni Xonar 1.01 Low DPC latency, HsMgr doesnt autostart anymore.
With this guide they don't autostart, they only start when you type in run those commands. I made this guide only to see if it still works.
I will later add a guide or patch with HsMgr autostarup.
Ok, thank your for this information.
The GX mode add on is working. Hardware Sound is available in all the same games it was with the Asus Control Panel, and Rightmard 3d Sound reports Hardware support and all 5 versions of EAX supported again. I'll continue testing and see if there's any difference in performance, sound quality, effects, or stability (Asus GX mode was very unstable at times)