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ASIO and X-Fi issues with Foobar

post #1 of 6
10/4/11 at 4:49pm
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Hey guys, fairly new here.  I have a pretty nice X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro series sound card along with Foobar & Winamp. I generally have been using Entertainment mode in the settings but I was reading about how Audio Creation mode is better with the bit-matched playback option and ASIO drivers.  There's a few things I've tried here, the mode works fine, it comes down to the drivers, by default Creative installs it's own ASIO driver which I have tried and it works pretty good through Foobar, though if you have to stop the audio to watch an internet video or something like that, sometimes it completely locks up my computer, I mean it locks up BAD.  I have to do a complete power off and back on.  If I use a standard plugin like default output it works fine but the sound quality is lacking.  I have also tried the ASIO4ALL v2 drivers and haven't had any luck with output from that at all.  Is there anything else worth trying, the KS drivers?  Is there something I'm doing wrong?

 

BTW computer is pretty state of the art Intel i7 2600k quad, 8gb, running on win7 64bit ultimate, latest x-fi drivers

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post #2 of 6
10/4/11 at 5:11pm

Are you sure you're not switching modes with anything that might play sound opened? That can cause a hard lock. Then again, I also have a bad feeling about the Creative AutoMode Switcher, as if it's also a possible culprit for the crashes and not just the act of mode switching.

 

One thing you might want to try is setting up Winamp with an OpenAL output plugin. This still bypasses the Windows mixer, which is largely the point of using WASAPI or ASIO. You don't need to be in Audio Creation Mode for it to work, either (unlike ASIO).

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post #3 of 6
10/4/11 at 5:29pm
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OpenAL, not sure I've tried that one.  I tried an EAX 2.0 plugin in Winamp, that sounded alright.  Yeah this was locking up switching from Foobar to say a youtube video.  I somehow got it working somewhat fine now with the ASIO4ALL and foobar right now with my Logitech 5.1 pc speakers, however when I switch to any other audio program it plays in 2.1, not sure if this is because of the bit-matched setting.  Sounds pretty good right now though.

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post #4 of 6
10/4/11 at 6:12pm
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Here's what I figured out.  If your playing audio with the plugin and you pause it or stop it and try and play a video online, no audio.  What you have to do is get out of Foobar, close the browser completely and reopen it to get the audio to work.  Why is it doing that?

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post #5 of 6
10/4/11 at 8:46pm

I don't know. It shouldn't do that with ASIO, which is why I used it over WASAPI exclusive mode.

 

Just for the record, this is the OpenAL output plugin I use:

 

http://www.winamp.com/plugin/openal-eax-2-0-efx-output-plugin/222490

 

But if that one doesn't do it for you, it turns out that there's another one.

 

http://www.winamp.com/plugin/openal-output-1-0-0/221767

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post #6 of 6
10/5/11 at 4:31am
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Yeah I mean those plugins work fine for me they just don't really sound that much different from the DirectSound default winamp plugins.  Foobar on the other hand (which is what I generally use) pretty much got down to only using the default output driver with the creative set on bit-matched and it sounds pretty clean, not as nice as the ASIO driver but it doesn't have that audio issue going between Foobar and any other program.  Also Foobar seems to like some of my higher encoded FLAC files while winamp just errors playing them (after the plugin is installed).

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