Asus Xonar DX Setup

wildest_jjk · 29 Jan 2015 at 14:16

Hey everyone,

I thought it would make sense for me to make a new thread on the topic above as it can be much more specific this way. My original topic was asking about the best solution for my current setup and equipment that I own, this can be found here:

Best audio combination

I have just purchased a Asus Xonar DX sound card and am having quite a lot of problems setting it up. First of all I am having problems with the Xonar DX Audio Centre. Everytime I open the menu part of the program this is what happens:

It seems to not draw the extra options on the screen properly?

As a result of this issue I have since installed the Uni drivers after finding about them and have installed this version: UNi Xonar 1822 v1.75a r2. I am also using the C-Media Panel as this actually seems to work.

Have I done the right thing so far with the basic setup? Any help will be greatly appreciated

Thanks!!

wildest_jjk · 29 Jan 2015 at 17:48

Thanks guys for the really helpful responses

With regards to the C-Media Panel it does seem to have most of the options however there are a couple of problems I have noticed:

There doesn't seem to be an option for selecting front panel headphones etc. I seem to have to struggle with the Xonar Audio Centre even though it isn't displayed properly. Is there any alternative to this?

The other problem is that there seems to be no mention of the Dolby Prologic at all until I check it in the Asus Xonar Audio Centre? Is this just automatically enabled through the Uni drivers when I select SPDIF as the output?

EDIT: Is there any way of being able to fix the Audio Centre? It's really annoying that it is even doing this in the first place!

Thanks

wildest_jjk · 29 Jan 2015 at 19:18

It's still exactly the same even though I am using Uni drivers unless I have done something wrong?

Thanks

wildest_jjk · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:12

So I have finally managed to solve some of the problems but I am still not quite there. Firstly I have completely uninstalled all traces of the Asus drivers and leftover files. Then I reinstalled Uni drivers with the Xonar DX Audio Centre. This now works properly and I can see every part of the program.

I have tried having my headphones plugged directly into the Mic and Speaker ports on the soundcard but Dolby Headphone seems quite muddy when compared against my Astro Mixamp? Is there anything I need to set differently? Perhaps I didn't set the headphones up properly to work directly with the sound card.

The final question is if I choose to use the mixamp alongside the headphones. What settings do I need to have selected in the Audio centre for connection with my mixamp? These are what I currently have set:

I then have Dolby headphone on my mixamp and have the headphones connected to this. Does everything look right?

Thanks guys

wildest_jjk · 1 Feb 2015 at 10:08

Another question regarding the number of input channels as marked above. The software says that 8 channels should be used for a 3D game however if a game is stereo only should it not be on 2 channels?

CSGO for example has multiple in-game options but I'm not sure what to choose.

Thanks guys