Asus Xonar SE problems

Snot Shot

Snot Shot

Snot Shot

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Avid PC gamer here and most of my life I have been using on board sound due to always having something wrong with dedicated SC that I tried. Kinda happy even with MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX board and the sound I am getting, but out of the blue decided to try dedicated sound card again. Went with Asus Xonar SE from OC. Just before purchase I said to myself "you asking for trouble".
Guess what? Got it today and installed:
  • Sound freezes up and stutters when playing YT and occasionally video pauses by itself? However, it does not freeze up or stutter if you watch live stream. Very odd.
  • Freezes up and stops music when playing via media player
  • Microphone records stutters too
  • Stutters when playing system sounds
Running windows 10. Unistalled and re-installed via CD and after downloading drivers from the web, nothing.
Tried changing playback devices on all apps still makes no difference. No errors or anything, everything is working correctly according to sys info. Not sure on Xonar audio controll app either, it offers...nothing.

Any ideas guys? Can it be faulty?

Thank you
 
Haha! my luck again :] Thank you for such quick response.
I am not too keen on going through listed solutions as none of them are fairly straight forward or simple.
Where do I stand with OC on returning this for a refund or exchange to different card?

Oh and any recommendations for something up to £50 please?

Many thanks
 
Little update if anyone interested.
So I have returned my Asus Xonar SE for a full refund due to incompatibility issues with AM4 boards. Efficient and straight forward process with OC team so thank you. Couple days of thinking, reading reddit and OC forums I went against majority advise that these days your motherboard onboard sound is more than enough unless you are an audiophile. I got Sound Blaster Z external souncard and if I said the difference in sound volume and quality is huge would be an understatement.
So my SBZ's are driving my G PRO X and what a difference, no match for the DAC that came with the headset and onboard "Realteks" are kinda useless to be honest.
So what gives? My G PRO's are far from high end headphones and my MSI B450 board is far from bottom of the range, but its still equals to **** poor sound quality unless you get decent external soundcard?
 
foster grant said:
Did you not give the unified drivers a try ?
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I will be honest, no I did not. After having all the issues I uninstalled it and packed it back into the box ready to be returned. Then I came here asking for advise/help and kinda did not want re-install eveything again in case its just a "patch up" job.
I ordered Sound Blaster Z through OC too and what a difference compared to onboard sound! Works great and I do love the software!
 
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