@Kitmellow You were using bad driver suite, now you see at last Ive been mentioning it many times, asus engineers did a very bad job with newest drivers. There is only one driver for this device that will run the card at its best and it is the WHQL non echelon drivers as I wrote earlier posts with full number. And newest driver suites lack serious features like lfe cut off frequency.
@HAWX So basically you might using some effects without knowing. because when you select playback option as WASAPI exclusive or ASIO, it will not only send the datas to the card directly but also bypass all the DSP effects and such. And i dont think the reason was the windows sampler as if you left it on the musics sample rate, windows wont resample at all. and there is a common mistake that windows sampler is bad actually it was bad back in the windows xp, vista era. But yes Im using ASIO too sometimes WASAPI Exclusive when playing surround tracks.
I moved on to this device from my xtreme music. Im using ATH-A500X monitors and creative G500 surround speakers, and the overall sound quality is improved considerably in all areas at my end. Some said my Galaxy S5 has better sounding and bla bla. But no, in reality this card is really really good piece of hardware, you just need to know how to use it. And for people says otherwise, I dont blame you, I blame asus engineers.
Yup clearly.
Considering that I want to use the U7 with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 across different machines, is there a driver suite that won't butcher the U7's performance for those OS's or can I still install this Windows 7 driver on them?
Edit: I noticed that Windows 8 and 8.1 have official WHQL drivers on the site, so I am guessing those will work fine with Windows 8?
Windows 10 still does not have a certified driver yet...