[TNT]

http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/dr...vers_V432b.zip

Anyone interested in experimenting these and reporting back? They are still warm

 

[Piccolo Daimaou]

I'll experiment, but not until later tonight. I wonder if this driver revision finally solves the volume control issue.

 

[proxops-pete]

Anybody knows if there is a "fixed in this release" notes for this driver release??!! I couldn't find it anywhere!

 

[TempestX]

They have added QSOUND instead of Sensaura under the Advance Control tab. That is a major change in itself. Don't know what else was changed under the hood though.

They had to use something else though since Creative bought Sensaura. I wonder if the other manufactures will follow.

 

[Mr.Radar]

Does anyone know if they finally fixed the master volume bug?

Also, the QSound demos are pretty good. I wonder how it works for games.

 

[TempestX]

I have tried one game, but it seems to sound good for music cds as well. Not sure if it is placebo/imagination, but I think it affects the music. Can someone confirm. Sounds good. Philips has always used QSOUND.

 

[TNT]

What about bit-perfect playback? 3.24 broke bit-perfect for me so I had to roll back to 3.10a. Can anybody report back if 4.32b will do this as well?
I'm not that much bothered by the volume bug, but it would be nice if they've finally fixed it.

 

[TempestX]

I have noticed since QSOUND works with all stereo sound you don't have to enable 3D in games, as long as QSOUND is enabled. If you do enable 3D in the game it enhances the 3D even more. Don't know if I like it though with both enabled. But by itself it sounds great.

Off to test more music and games.

 

[Kuja]

1. It is no longer necessary to load the cpl in order to initialise the drivers/card
2. The cpl no longer generates an error on exit

Winner to me

 

[Cyrillic]

All I have is my chaintech installed and these new drivers. They work for me, as opposed to some other Envy thing I tried.

Anyhow, I'm wondering if I should use 2 channel or 2 channel hi sample rate... When I use 2 channel I get the option for 48k sample rate which seems to be what I use with 2 channel hi sample rate... Well anyways when I click hi sample rate + 2 channel it tells me digital out is not selected which doesn't sound good, b/c I read in another thread I should have digital out enabled. Well anyways I'm thouroughly confused. I have 2 channel normal selected with 48k sample rate.

So this ASIO4All thing... Should I hvae this?

BTW it might just be me, but I think my speakers sound better with this Chaintech and these drivers, even though they suck anyways.

 

[Kuja]

Select high sample rate. It will disable digital out, line-in and the rest of the analogue outs. Then, in your music player, resample to 96khz and use kernel streaming or ASIO4All to bypass kmixer.

 

[Cyrillic]

I can't figure out how to do kernal streaming instaed of ASIO4All, but I remember seeing it once. Is one better than the other?

Oh, I think part of my problem was finding a plugin for ASIO4All for winamp or foobar.

Oh well I see the output plugin for kernal streaming, but still none for ASIO4all.

 

[Cyrillic]

I tried doing it as Iron Dreamer suggested in this thread:

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/archi...p/t-73427.html

But still I get errors. It says:

NFO (CORE) : opening file for playback :
INFO (CORE) : location: "file://C:\Trance\DJ Tiesto - Magik 6 - Live in Amsterdam - LAME\01. Magik 6 - Live In Amsterdam - [afterburn _ Fratty Boy].mp3" (0)
ERROR (foo_out_ks) : KS output error: error opening device.

I tried resetting everything, and now when I try to play something nothing still happens. Also, when I play stuff in winamp, it goes like 20 seconds, 1:30, 2:50... basically flies through the song in like 10 seconds without playing anything...

 

[NeilPeart]

Try setting the sampling rate to 96000Hz.

 

[Cyrillic]

It is on 96k. I uninstalled all devices and drivers and programs and re-installed them and it still won't work...

Okay I switched the plug in the back that I was using and it works, but I'm still not sure about the Kernal Streaming...

Yeah I still get the error:

KS Output Error: Error Opening Device

I installed ASIO4All, but it's not listed as an output method and I can't find any plugins for foobar... can't find any .dll's to drop into the system folder like the Chaintech review said, either.

Also, now I'm using all the same settings as in here:

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/archi...p/t-73427.html

except I'm using direct sound instead of KS. I'm getting some pops during playback... I don't know how to stop this.