Anyone running a Xonar card on W8?

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In the W8 RTM/Release Preview/Evaluation, Xonar driver install still won't work with the Asus Xonar Control Panel.

Just browsing the Asus forums, noticed this thread http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...odel=Xonar+Essence+STX&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Looking at it, can't imagine why it'd do anything, but can anyone who's running a Xonar card and Windows 8 try?

Could be a potential fix for anyone who's suffering.

Cheers.
 
It just isn't 'windows' anymore :( one to skip just like vista, and then I hope they go back to a more traditional style with windows 9.
Also you may want to take a look at your sig :p your pc seems to have a hybrid of an i5 2500k and an i7 2600k :)
 
its windows with a different start menu. take your blinkers off.

as for asus, well. They are notoriously slow at releasing software for operating systems that ARE released. There was zero chance they'd get a driver out before windows 8 was officially released. I would be pleasantly surprised if they had one out in the first few months. In fact, i wouldn't be too surprised if the unified drivers worked before asus got off their arses.
 
Creative were also slack about getting new drivers for Vista/7 so it seems that soundcard manufacturers are just slow...

As for Windows 8, as usual people are jumping on the lolhate bandwagon without knowing a whole lot about it!
 
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its windows with a different start menu. take your blinkers off.

as for asus, well. They are notoriously slow at releasing software for operating systems that ARE released. There was zero chance they'd get a driver out before windows 8 was officially released. I would be pleasantly surprised if they had one out in the first few months. In fact, i wouldn't be too surprised if the unified drivers worked before asus got off their arses.
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The not released frankly I don't find a reasonable excuse.
We're on the fourth iteration of builds available to the public now (Developer Preview, Consumer Preview, Release Preview and the evaluation 90 day which is essentially the RTM (Although it's publicly available)

Plus Windows 8 is released in MSDN/Dreamspark/Technet and people are legitimately running it right now.

They have motherboard drivers, AMD/Nvidia have Windows 8 drivers, and there's only handful of stuff that doesn't work (Personally, everything of mine bar the Xonar Control Panel works)
 
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I think that's unfair. AMD only released their chipset drivers on the same day win8 was made available on MSDN - august 15th - there was nothing available before that, although the win7 drivers worked. AMD have only released two gpu drivers as well, the first being released way back at the start and it was.....not brilliant. There are peripherals and hardware that are still waiting on a windows 8 driver (i have no bluetooth drivers for my dongle and there is now camera raw package for windows 8 at the moment). I dont think it's all that unreasonable for manufacturers to wait for the final code revision before releasing / working on their own drivers. Asus are probably working on the problem right now.
 
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Martini1991 said:
The not released frankly I don't find a reasonable excuse.
We're on the fourth iteration of builds available to the public now (Developer Preview, Consumer Preview, Release Preview and the evaluation 90 day which is essentially the RTM (Although it's publicly available)

Plus Windows 8 is released in MSDN/Dreamspark/Technet and people are legitimately running it right now.

They have motherboard drivers, AMD/Nvidia have Windows 8 drivers, and there's only handful of stuff that doesn't work (Personally, everything of mine bar the Xonar Control Panel works)
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Logically you'd think they would be ahead of this but... I guess there are either other factors we're not aware of or they're just mega mega slow.

I waited months after Windows 7 was released for decent creative drivers for my soundcard. In the end, the first decent drivers were community made drivers which used Vista driver files.

They're just slow... Something you either avoid by sticking to Win7 for the moment or you start digging around for some other drivers which someone might have made.
 
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