Sound loop on Asus Xonar DG

Ice213

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Hi everyone,

I've had this problem a few times in the past and wondered if there was a fix for it. Basically now and then when I quit a game or a game crashes, I get a stuttering audio loop really loud in my headset and it won't go away unless I reboot or disable the sound card and re-enable it. This is pretty annoying :p.

I googled the issue and others are having but the general fix seems to be to disable GX mode, but I don't have GX mode on at all (it isn't white in the Xonar Audio centre, which i assume means it is disabled).

Just wondering if anyone has this problem and has fixed it.

Thanks :D
 
Will give them a go, see what's what. I'm just not sure I can replicate the sound loop, it just seems to be a random event. Thanks for the link though :)
 
Well try the Brainbit drivers first, then go from there. They do solve some issues people have with Asus' own, so it's worth a shot.
 
Marsman said:
Well try the Brainbit drivers first, then go from there. They do solve some issues people have with Asus' own, so it's worth a shot.
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Do you use these yourself by any chance? I'm just not sure which one I should be installing out of the 3 available, and will it effect the Xonar audio center I have installed? I've read through the site but the comments and stuff seem to be from people who are more technically into the audio, whereas I like it to be clear and good (which it is now, just the stuttering that occasionally happens is a pain :()
 
I use the low DPC latency option. Installing that or normal does not alter the Xonar control panel. The C-Media Audio Panel option changes the CP, so is not the one to use if you want to keep the CP as it is.
 
Cool thanks a lot, will probably go with the Low DPC option as that seems to be the most advantageous with only a few drawbacks :)
 
It might be related to your games crashing. What's the cause of that?

I'd check other things first - although people say the official asus drivers are buggy I've found them to be flawless.
 
Well it was only one crash on driver San Francisco, it crashed to desktop and the sound loop happened. It happened once when quitting a game a while ago and most recently today when quitting rift. Although the rift problem is widely documented but the solutions all seem to be turning off gx mode, but that has been off for the whole time. Or heading into the device manager and disabling the card then re- enabling it.

The rest were all just game exits as far as I remember (which because it happens only occasionally I don't remember them all :p).

I also haven't installed the Brainbit drivers yet.
 
I decided to give these modified drivers a go on my Asus DX 7.1 card. I have been experiencing a number of lock ups and when my PC crashes the sounds playing were usually distorted. After updating the driver the sound difference is noticeable, in a good way.

After reading through the Brainbit site I noticed that the author had written an article on DPC latency. There is also a tool for measuring the streaming performance (DPC Latency) of your PC.

Updated the sound card drivers and ran the above tool. Loaded my usual game and left the tool running in the background. After a gaming session checked the tool and it reported that I needed to check and possibly update other drivers in my rig. DPC Latency was spiking at just under 3000 micro seconds (IIRC). The cut off point for when you start having drop-outs is around 1000 micro secs.

The tool suggests that you update/disable various devices in order to check which one(s) are misbehaving. Updated my Realtek LAN card drivers re-ran the test for prolly 30 mins. Results were good. No spikes over 1000 micro secs.

Played my usual game for approx 2 - 3 hours last night - no lock ups. Its early days but I'm hopeful that this has gone someway towards sorting my rigs stability issues.
 
+1 to the Unified drivers, the stock Asus one gave me all sorts of odd problems with my DX.

Using the low latency one as well, mine seems to always stay under 200 :cool:.
 
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