Mystique sound problems?

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Hi,

Decided to try using my "hda digital" mystique DD-Live card on my rig below, using their last/latest xp drivers and the DD out/live connection.

Didn't use it for long as I when playing games such as oblivion, I kept on getting blasts of white noise on various speakers every now and again. No problems with raw DD signals sent from movies, so my amp is fine. Tried searching for newer drivers as the latest were a fair bit old...

....but only found ones for the newer cards (after finding out that the company has now changed its name to "auzentech"). Is this card essentially obsolete now then? Will I need to upgrade to the newer cards to get decent/proper performance?

Back to using the onboard sound for now, and a 6 channel analoque cable. :(

edit- also found that when usin the mystique with the DD live function, any stereo source was being played in surround. Couldn't find a way to make stereo sources come out of front speakers only, and then surround kick in as and when needed....?
 
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I see what you mean - however, it needs to be enabled to allow me to hear surround material in surround via a single digital cable to my amp. I wouldn't want to have to keep switching the DD encoding/live option on and off everytime I wanted to hear something in "proper" stereo. :confused:

They should have implemented an option where true stereo sources from windows are played on front speakers only.

Thanks for the link - but aren't those vista drivers? The latest ones or their site for XP64 is dated 28/4/06 and marked as BETA.... which I've been using.

Guess I'll have to stick with onboard then.
 
hmm pretty poor product, if it has a "always live encode" no matter the source. It should detect the signal, and according to your preferences, do as requested. Like he said, leave stereo as stereo, and output multi-channel as multi-channel. If you're applying processing/DSP the amp does it anyway.
 
whoops, so they are. xp64 hasn't had an update for...well, ahes. id try the drivers for the x-meridian. whats the worst that could happen?

does xp64 work with 32bit drivers?

squiffy said:
hmm pretty poor product, if it has a "always live encode" no matter the source. It should detect the signal, and according to your preferences, do as requested. Like he said, leave stereo as stereo, and output multi-channel as multi-channel. If you're applying processing/DSP the amp does it anyway.
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all ddl encoding cards behave the same, as does onboard with ddl/dts capabilities:)

personally mine spent more time in pcm mode than it did in 5.1 so the odd change and back didnt bother me:)
 
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