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New Sound Blaster Z drivers released (2013/07/11)

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These are pretty good, except ASIO now operates in exclussive mode which is a bit annoying. I had MusicBee player set to play music through ASIO and i could even use it while gaming. With these new drivers, if i play music, all the game sounds go mute. Other than this, they work really well. I hope they'll keep the schedule of driver updates in such frequency as it was now. New drivers every 3 months would be nice.
 
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System Name Grond
Processor Ryen 5 3600x PBO ~ 4.4GHz / fabric at 1900
Motherboard MSI b550 Tomahawk
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Memory 32gb Crucial Ballistix @ 3800
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Storage WD SN850 1tb-OS, SN750 1tb, Samsung 860 Evo 1tb, WD blue hdd 4tb
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Case NZXT H630 white watercooling case
Audio Device(s) Onboard realtek ALC 1200+ Sennheiser HD 598
Power Supply XFX Pro 850 XXX semi-modular
Mouse Logitech G703 Wireless
Keyboard Steelseries 6 v2
Software Windows 10 Pro (Had some mystery error on Win7 and decided to go W10)
Thanks for the heads up, should be recieving my new Soundblaster in a few days.
 
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