Xonar DG auto sensing

Marsman

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Just tried the new Brainbit drivers with my DG, and I noticed that in the notes, it says there has been an update for the front audio auto sensing.

Looking at the date of the note, it was actually done with a previous driver release. I thought I'd post this, in case anybody is using older Brainbit drivers, or still using Asus drivers, and is annoyed with the flaky auto sensing.

Auto sensing is much better now, so much so, it reverts to speakers when I remove the headphones, and changes to headphones when plug them in. Hasn't failed once yet.

Gotta say, I'm impressed, as it was so hit and miss before. Well done Brainbit. Shame on Asus.

Brainbit Unified Xonar drivers
 
Must try them when I reassemble my PC :cool: I've been using the stock Asus drivers since day one, though I only ever use headphones plugged in at the card, have I been missing anything good? Never had any issues with it
 
Well if you don't need the auto sensing to work, and the drivers you have work fine, then no great need to get new drivers I suppose.
 
The 5.1 stereo upmix issue was created by Asus Dev Team, the C-Media Devs did it right with original drivers. But C-Media is not innocent, besides being always too late to the party, DPC latency sky rocks when using any of they’re poor coded audio functions(see fixes for Uni Xonar low DPC latency driver)
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What I mean was I don't know what any of that means :D
 
The upmix issue is when stereo, more than likely music, is upmixed to 5.1, despite selecting 2 channel in the Xonar CP.

In other words, if someone wanted to listen to music in stereo, from left and right speakers, they can't. The card will always upmix it to 5.1. A lot of people didn't want that. If they wanted music upmixed to 5.1, they would select 6 channels. Asus wouldn't or couldn't fix the problem.

For some people the Asus drivers can cause latency issues, which is apparently cleared up with the low latency option when installing the drivers. I say apparently, because I have never had a problem with latency, so I can't say what difference the Brainbit drivers made in that regard.
 
From what I can tell mine doesn't do auto sensing at all? I couldn't see any options for it. I've got a Xonar DX 7.1

So thanks for linking to this, will look into it.
 
Auto sensing on the DG isn't anywhere near as flakey as made out I reckon, it just requires the DG audio center to be set to the main page rather than mixer or any of the others, then it should work fine.
 
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That is your experience. I'm sure others have also had no issue with auto sensing working every time. It's always been hit and miss for me, with Asus drivers, and even with older Brainbit drivers.

Plenty of people have also reported that it is hit and miss.

It's a little simplistic to say that the reason why people find it flaky, is because they haven't had the Xonar CP set to the main page when inserting or removing the jack.
 
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Try it and see, it's all too easy to use the control panel and leave it on a page other than main, at that point the detection wont work. Every single person I know who has a DG has found that by making sure it is on the main page the detection works flawlessly. Sure there will be exceptions but my money is on the fact that 90% of the time it is the root cause of the issue, my first response was badly worded to be fair, I've edited it now.
 
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I have, otherwise I woudn't have posted the thread. If auto sensing hasn't worked for me, reliably at least, there is a good chance others will also have found this.

Having said that though, it doesn't necessarily mean that the new Brainbit drivers will solve the auto sensing issue for everyone.
 
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