Asus Xonar DSX

[StealthArsenal]

Hello Everyone,

 

*Disclaimer - I do not have these issues if I use the onboard realtek.*

 

Looking for some help with my Asus Xonar DSx 7.1.  To get this out of the way, for whatever reason with this new build, I cannot for the life of me get this card to cooperate.  With that said, the primary issue I am having is getting the card to actually play out of all five speakers.  I have my Logitech Z-5500's connected to this card.  Doing a little google work, I determined that in order to get all the speakers to work, I needed to go into the Windows sound settings and physically change the card from 5.1 to stereo.  This worked for a couple of songs and then all of sudden something changed.  Now what seems to be happening is either 4 speakers play (no center channel) or two speakers play (no center channel).  I noticed that when I was able to get all 5 speakers playing, bass was extremely low.  With that said, whatever setting got changed, the bass increased and I lost either one or three speakers playing.  Let me break down some settings;

 

Xonar DSX Audio Center:

- Audio Channel = 2

- Sample Rate = 96 khz

- Analog out = 5.1

 

Itunes:

Bit Rate = 44.1

Bits per sample = 16

Play Audio - Windows

 

Quicktime:

- Rate = 44.1

- Size = 16

- Channels - Stereo

 

Now, when talking about the Windows settings the following occurs.  The settings above still apply.  If I made the following change, all 5 speakers will play, with a low bass and then my right surround speaker will cut out and only 4 speakers will play.

 

Windows:

- Audio Channels - Stereo (defaults or other settings

- 24 bit or 16 bit

- 48000 hz / 44100

 

Does anyone have any experience with getting this card to play nice with the Z5500's?  I didn't have these issues with my G51's.

 

Thanks

 

[techguru]

what drivers are you using?

the offical asus ones or the new modded ones?

[techguru]

http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/

much better drivers..been updated over time

[StealthArsenal]

I actually just installed the UNi Drivers.  So far its seems to be working.  I have 5 speakers working and it seems my bass is back.  I actually have two of these cards, one running on a 3770k system with Asus drivers without issues and then this system (x99) which doesn't work with Asus drivers but the Uni drivers.  Very strange to me.

[techguru]

 which doesn't work with Asus drivers but the Uni drivers.  Very strange to me

not really...asus doesn't bother updating its audio drivers very often..if all..I think they kinda left them to die

[StealthArsenal]

Well, I think I can work with these uni drivers.  Everything seems to be working just fine now.  I have added a bookmark to my driver folder so I can remember these. 

 

Thanks for your help tech.

[techguru]

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