Am I using my Xonar DX to its full potential? (mainly in-game)

glad i could help. Pass it on to anyone you know who was having the issue, if you can remember who they are :)
Took me a good few days of swearing and moaning and googling to find out wth was going on. At first i thought it was just the LED's on my d2 being incorrect and tought asus were being fail lol. In teh end it just made me ahve more distain for microsoft changing the sound stack in vista.
 
Been reading this with interest - just installed a xonar dx sound card. Set the sampling rate to 96khz in both windows and the driver software, and am managing to get surround sound. What I did notice in windows, is that it's set to windows 7 32 bit, but I'm running 64 bit - is this a problem??
 
what is set to windows 7 32bit? The actual os? Mine is running 64 bit, definatley, since it uses up to 99% of the 8gb I have installed. Although that was onyl because of the stupid slideshow background that would lag my game, and sometiems crash it, and gradually eat all my ram......no idea why lol
 
hughythomas said:
@ trancer

In Windows XP it wasn't an issue. Since Vista it is. We now have two variables to deal with in terms of sampling rates - 1) The Soundcard and 2) Windows. I agree that it is pointless in principle to set higher sample rates than what the source material is encoded with but Windows is now artifacting and aliasing the sound if it is set low. And believe me, it sounds horrible. It also tries its best to sync with what sample rate is set by the soundcard. Unfortunately, this does not often work out and as such, (in order to 'unlock' the higher sample rates) we must set them both from the soundcard's driver panel and in windows to avoid any audio degradation.

Again, dont just take my word for it. Try it out for yourself - what speakers/soundcard/OS are you running?
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Thanks for the reply. I have:

Xonar DX
Logitech X-230 Speakers
Audio Technica ATH-AD700 Headphones
Windows 7 64-bit
 
Oh right hahah I don't think you'll hear much difference then :P :P :P

EDIT: Actually your headphones look good perhaps you will. Just A/B the sampling rates in when set in Windows and see if you can hear a difference. I would recommend 20 seconds of listening time to the SAME lossless audio file at a time. Also, unless you have a background in pro audio I would say simply A/B between 44.1kHz / 16 bit and 96kHz / 24 bit. Obviously, the dynamic range and SnR will increase but this will give you an idea of the EXTENT to which Windows can have an effect upon audio quality since Vista/7.
 
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hughythomas said:
Oh right hahah I don't think you'll hear much difference then :P :P :P

EDIT: Actually your headphones look good perhaps you will. Just A/B the sampling rates in when set in Windows and see if you can hear a difference. I would recommend 20 seconds of listening time to the SAME lossless audio file at a time. Also, unless you have a background in pro audio I would say simply A/B between 44.1kHz / 16 bit and 96kHz / 24 bit. Obviously, the dynamic range and SnR will increase but this will give you an idea of the EXTENT to which Windows can have an effect upon audio quality since Vista/7.
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Yeah how rude lol, those are good phones :D
 
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