imperialreign
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System Name | УльтраФиолет |
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Processor | Intel Kentsfield Q9650 @ 3.8GHz (4.2GHz highest achieved) |
Motherboard | ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi; X38 NSB, ICH9R SSB |
Cooling | Delta V3 block, XPSC res, 120x3 rad, ST 1/2" pump - 10 fans, SYSTRIN HDD cooler, Antec HDD cooler |
Memory | Dual channel 8GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 @ 1800MHz @ 7-7-7-20 1T |
Video Card(s) | Quadfire: (2) Sapphire HD5970 |
Storage | (2) WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA-300; WD 320GB SATA-300; WD 200GB UATA + WD 160GB UATA |
Display(s) | Samsung Syncmaster T240 24" (16:10) |
Case | Cooler Master Stacker 830 |
Audio Device(s) | Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro PCI-E x1 |
Power Supply | Kingwin Mach1 1200W modular |
Software | Windows XP Home SP3; Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 |
Benchmark Scores | 3m06: 20270 here: http://hwbot.org/user.do?userId=12313 |
This is interesting, because I have heard everyone raving about how good Xonar is and how bad Creative's offering is when compared to each other. But I think yours is an odd one out. Have you tried to contact the ASUS support?
Everyone was raving when the Xonar was still the "new kid" on the block. As their market share has increased, and more users are purchasing their cards, more and more problem are cropping up.
Sadly, I predicted this a couple of years ago during the peak of the Creative bashing, and when everyone was commiting to only purchasing ASUS cards in the future . . . I'm sure if need be I can probably dig up those ancient threads (although most users never believed me).
Anyhow, the biggest issues with audio drivers is how they "integrate" into the OS. Vista and OS7 are picky as almighty get-out, and don't play well with hardware (in general). Not to mention, the way Vis/OS7's audio kernel is, it adds a ton of latency and "passing the buck" between APIs . . . Creative have somewhat "cured" this problem with OpenAL, and better driver intergration with the API. ASUS, on the other hand, seem to want as little to do with OAL as possible (even though helping with development and implimenation/usage are 100% free), which is why (IMHO) they can't seem to "fix" their current slew of issues; why their drivers will work on Vista but not on OS7, or on OS7 but not on Vista . . .
We didn't have these problems with XP . . . the audio kernel was drastically different, and allowed software to utilize hardware at the driver level (instead of having to pass it through a few different APIs). XP's issues are typically related more-so to hardware "conflicts" (hardware competing for control of the PCIE/PCI BUS 90% of the time), whereas Vista/OS7 issues tend to be more communication "conflicts" (drivers/software/OS not communicating properly).
It's all a big mess that there's not much users can do about. You can keep your eyes open for "modded" drivers, but these are always hit or miss.