Windows 10: Calling all ASUS Xonar owners, what's the driver situation on W10?

So I have an ASUS Xonar DS sound card that I'm not currently using (thought it was faulty, it turned out it was something else), and I've been thinking about putting it back in for a while now, but since I'll be upgrading to Windows 10 as soon as it goes live, I'm worried that there will be no drivers available at launch.

So what's the current situation with these sound cards? Are there drivers available in the Preview builds?

Thanks!

:)

 

Windows doesn't give me the option for 5.1 Surround Sound.

It's because ASUS haven't released drivers for Windows 10 yet. They're expecting this to take about 2-3 months from Win 10 RTM.

I advise you to check out the UNi Xonar Drivers. They are pretty compatible with Windows 10 (read: the best you get).

UNi Xonar Drivers official page - MaxedTech

On my hand I'm waiting until ASUS releases their drivers before upgrading, but this should provide you with a close-to-perfect workaround until that time if you've already upgraded.

Make sure you unistall your ASUS Xonar control panel and drivers before installing this one.

 

Windows 10 - 64bit Fall Creators Update Auto changing ASUS Xonar Audio Bit-depth?

To get straight to it, the issue is whenever the sound icon in the Windows taskbar tray is clicked, Windows will automatically change my ASUS Xonar DX's bit depth, in Windows sound properties, from 24bit - 96khz to 16bit - 96khz. This also changes my audio
channels in the Xonar DX Audio Center from 8 to 2. This happens only once after first booting into Windows and happens every time.

This issue has been seemingly common as of lately amongst ASUS Xonar sound card users. Specifically listed hereon the Xonar Uni drivers website, under:

"Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709)

• Default format(bit-depth and sample rate) from Windows Volume->Playback devices and the number of audio channels resets each time the Windows Volume icon is clicked (#1, #2).
  Anyone affected should report the issue to Microsoft."

So, if this can be forwarded to the Windows 10 technicians and developers, that would be appreciated.

 

use unixonar driver from maxed tech i have xonar d2 and works fine

UNi Xonar Drivers official page - MaxedTech

 

Oh wow, I actually didn't know that guy updated its drivers to support Windows 10 (it's not a full 100% support but its something).

Thanks mate.

 

your welcome for me works fine no problem

 

I also have a Xonar Essence STX. Installed in a ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z, AMD Black Edition FX9590 CPU, 16GB of G-Skill Trident RAM. With Windows 10, of course. I have mine, short of working with the ASUS drivers for W8. It crashes if I check the S/PDIF box. The analog output is OK. ASUS is shortly going to publish drivers for Windows 10, they presently have a beta available: Beta Version 8.1.8.1823 ASUS does not recommend it's use, but to wait for the stable release which I understand is due in October.

 

Asus really needs to get on C-Media's case about this seeing as it C-Media who writes the base driver that Asus uses for its sound cards.

Good thing for the UniXonar drivers as without them most of us would have a nice paperweight right now as the Windows 8.1 drivers won't install on Windows 10 in most cases.

 

I installed beta win10 drivers from Asus site yesterday....no more sound issues *Smile Xonar DX | Sound Cards | ASUS Global
32/64bit

 

Hi there,

On a simililar rig, i'm succesfully using W8 driver 1.08 - 8.1.8.1822 - from asus site, works perfect, no issues at all, at first it rejected install saying that it's W8 driver, but then I digged through the inf-s ini's etc and found this "CmSetx.dll" , just 4 lines :

[SETUP]
ATYPE=30
INI_PATH=SoftwareDriver\InI
SupportOS=donotcare

supportOS was naturally W8, after some digging i found that it has to be changed for "donotcare",
works fantastic ever since.

Analog out, headfone amp, and spdif are working just like they did under W7/W8, only slight issue is that when you are using ASIO, u wont be able to go with latency as low as you might under W7, apart from that im very happy with these drivers

 

I have a very old Asus M2N motherboard, and I had been having trouble with the chipset drivers provided by MS. I downloaded the Windows 7 drivers and installed those, and it alleviated some of my problems. My Chipset is a Nforce chipset so it included SATA drivers, Network drivers, and Video drivers as well as a few other things. If you have the original drivers for the card on a disk, there should be no problems with using those drivers. I have installed several legacy devices, which had drovers for XP, including a Brother HL-1230 laser printer, the drivers went right in, but they required 16-bit support. I doubt if your audio card is that old to require those, so use whatever drivers came with the card. It should be fine.