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Originally Posted by mcegan  So I bought this card after following this thread, and I have to say the sound quality is amazing. This is my first non onboard sound and I'm loving the difference. I only have one big problem with this card.
Whenever I try to load up World of Warcraft, it gives me a blue screen complaining about cmudaxp.sys, which is the driver file the card uses. Whenever I try to run dxdiag, it also gives me the same bluescreen when it reaches the sound area of the test. After restarting and running dxdiag again, it notices that I crashed last time at the direct sound part and asks if I want to skip that portion, so I say yes and it loads fine. I then pass all the direct sound tests fine.
Later I find out that WoW and dxdiag only bluescreen whenever the DSP mode "DS3D GX" is not enabled. With it enabled, they load fine. The next problem is that when I have this enabled, I can't listen to music on winamp for some reason. It acts like it's muted. As soon as I turn it off though, it will play fine but then the blue screens are back with the other 2.
Another problem is even though WoW loads with the DSP option on, I can't get any sound to run through it no matter what options I try to set. I have tried another Blizzard game which also uses eax effects (Warcraft 3) and it had no difficulty loading with the DSP mode off or on.
I'm running Windows XP on a evga 680i LT mobo (Bios is the newest one). I just reformatted and installed windows fresh and it still blue screens in the same places without the DS3D GX on. This problem is extremely annoying and if I could get rid of it this card would be perfect. Any suggestions?
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Are you sure that its when you
enable GX it works? There are numerous problems with GX [which is basically software emulated EAX incase you didnt know] however all the problems i've heard and personally had have been when its been enabled. Disabled = white lettering, Enabled=black lettering. If it was an issue when you enable GX then it would be, unfortunetly, the norm. There are a whole lot of games out there that either fail to load, cause an error, have no sound etc etc... all when GX is enabled. Once its disabled the experience is problem free. So make sure that isnt the case with you.
Im suspecting you're misreading whether GX is disabled or enabled and winamp is the actual problem.
Unfortunetly ASUS seems to be taking their sweet time on fixing these issues. They've been existant for about a year now. Of course that isnt stopping them for releasing more and more products utilizing the same buggy driver foundation. All in all their cards sound really good with music, but have been complete trash when it comes to gaming compared to X-Fi.
