UNi Xonar Drivers 1.81 (post periodically updated)
25 Jan 2017 12:09am at September 18, 2020 • by CarvedInside • in Xonar sound cards • 8738
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You saved my day.
Keep up the good work.
Glad to hear that! Please post your audio card model and which windows do you have.
Xonar DS on Windows 7 x86.
Sadly I found a problem with ASIO.
Playback using foobar with ASIO was laggy even the latency was set to 80ms, most noticeably when I was using other applications at the same time.
I’ll try to look into it. I also noticed asio being laggy, but i don’t use it so I’m not used to how it should work. If you had no ASIO problems with your previous drivers, you might try to copy and replace them UNi XonarWIN7SoftwareDriverdll and do a reinstall. The files are named cmasiop.dll and cmasiopx.dll
Everything works fine on my system Xonar D2/XPsp3.Thank you very much.
Just installed, Everything is perfect as expected. I dont use ASIO so I dont bother. BTW I didn’t like the new Red icon its ugly than the previous one.
Ohh, I forgot to tell I m using Xonar D2X on Windows 7 32-Bit with 4GB of RAM.
Glad to hear that! The red icon is the default new icon for the 1788. Maybe I’ll make one myself to further differentiate my release from Asus. If you or anybody else has talent designing one you should send it to me.
If you looking for a good icons, try these.
Thank you for filling the gap left by ASUS. Should I uninstall my earlier (1780) drivers before install?
Thank you for the appreciation! Yes uninstall them!
Works on my 64bit Win7 Pro with Xonar D1.
Xonar DX on Windows 7 x86.
Thanks for the driver!
The icon in system tray should be an old (black-dark blue) or new colouring (red-orange)?
black dark blue in tray, red yellow in start menu and control panel.
Xonar ds on win7 x64 user here. So far so great, thank you for the new drivers!
Zee :
Just installed, Everything is perfect as expected. I dont use ASIO so I dont bother… BTW I didn’t like the new Red icon its ugly than the previous one.
Design is not important. IMPORTANT JUST SOUND QUALITY.
Mate, this is quite an effort that you have put in and I don’t know about other people but myself; I’m extremely greatful for your efforts.
I have downloaded the driver files off your FTP and will test them tonight.
Thanks again for all your help and I really think ASUS should consider giving you a job. 🙂
It really was an effort and it means a lot that you realize and appreciate what I have done.Thank you!
Yes I think they should!:)
PS: when you install them, please post if its working and on which model and OS.
Having some issues with this, Installs fine after i uninstall the previous driver and reboot, But when i open winamp, (I use kernel streaming on that, but same happens with DS and nullsoft waveout) I get no sound in anything, and if i close it while its «playing» I get a loud pitch as if it just played the entire song in 0.5 sec.
If i close winamp, I can listen to stuff like youtube fine however.
Running on XP SP3
Forgot to say its a DX card 😐 (checked power cable and so on) Using Headphones aswell (Headphone mode instead of 2 channel and 48khz)
What OS are you using?
Try this:
A) 1.Select Nullsoft DirectSound Output and click Configure. 2. Press reset all , press refresh and select from device Asus Xonar DX, click ok. 3. Restart winamp.
B) Try changing output to 2 channels and also try 44.1 KHz.
C) Uninstall and install Winamp again. Maybe a plugin isn’t configured properly to recognize the card.
Ill will try to reproduce you’re settings/configuration.
Edit: Tried switching to headphones with 48 KHz, installed and switch to kernel streaming, and it worked fine. Tested on DX / WinXp64(sp2)
Im on XP SP3, And if it worked for you, it must be my side i guess, since it even worked for you in xp 64bit :O
Im not running any plugins or anything in winamp (using winamp lite) cept for KS, but no difference in which i chose, ill try again later ^_-
[merged comments] Ok, seems my winamp was totally messed up, working fine now! (after 3 reinstalls of it 0_o)
Thank you for all your hard work. Installed on Win 7 x64 with Asus D2X w/out issue.
Will be testing heavily and report any issues if found.
Thanks! Works on WinXP Sp3 with Xonar D1. So to hold 🙂
The ASIO patch fixed the lag but now ASIO settings (e.g. Bit-Depth, Latency) cannot be saved. Anyway it is still a great improvement and thanks so much for the patch.
[merged comments] Solved. Need to run as administrator to change settings.
By run as administrator, you mean you launched Foobar (for example) as administrator? If you can give me some details it would be great. Thanks
UNi Xonar Drivers 1.81 (post periodically updated)
25 Jan 2017 12:09am at September 18, 2020 • by CarvedInside • in Xonar sound cards • 8738
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I own a STX II and for me the original drivers sound better. I have also noticed that ASIO version of unified drivers are older than the original drivers’.
I don’t know which UNi Xonar drivers have you tried but v1.80b has the same audio drivers and ASIO version as the original STXII drivers.
Tried this one: UNi Xonar W10 1825 v1.81a r2
Regarding the sound quality in v1.81 drivers, there have been reports that is different. I’ve yet to make some RMAA tests to see how different.
Wow I have actually had this Xonar soundcard for over a year probably a year and a half. The sound card has always been decent but it would always seem to develop this buzz/feedback after a while. I would change out the drivers and it would primarily go away and or get better but never completely. When I am listening I can’t really hear it and or the sound defeats the feedback. I had gotten back around until it is always having the buzz again and I went looking for drivers to see if there was anything new and walla I found your drivers and they fixed the whole problem.
Thank you it is really appreciated. Just as a note I am partially deaf (legally I am deaf but I can hear 40% out of one ear and the other ear picks up the sub and mid/ranges-bass) so highend headphones are a must and I use some Masters and Dynamic cans. The help is very appreciated.
Thanks for the feedback. I’m pleased to hear that these drivers helped with the problem you’ve been having.
If you can tell me what Xonar card do you have, the original driver version you had previously installed, your OS, what UNi Xonar driver you have currently installed and what panel configuration have you selected when you’ve installed them?
Hey! Just a quick feedback on the new audio driver:
I’m using the STX II, running the latest v1.81a rev.2 (low DPC) drivers on Win 10 64-bit.
Yesterday i ran into an issue: Suddenly, the left canal did not make any sound anymore, neither on the headphone-out nor the regular cinch-out’s. Balance options were ok. However, when turning up the volume to 100 % (and only 100 %), the left canal kicked back in.
The only thing i changed on the system was installing Titanfall 2 via Origin, so that might have something to do with it.
Reinstalling the v1.81a rev.2 driver, following the correct uninstalling (play audio file) and installing (test mode or signature control deactivated) procedure completely solved the problem.
Nevertheless, thank you very much for making the UNi drivers!
Hi. Before you’ve tried to reinstall the drivers, have you tried to restart the system?
Thank you for the feedback.
Yes, first i’ve tried to just logoff-login and then i’ve restarted the system twice — nothing but reinstalling helped in my case. I will report if this issue occurs again.
I just installed for both Win 10 and XP for a Xonar DX. The card works fine in ASIO but in WDM I can’t get playback working correctly above 48 KHz sample rate. Record works well. Simple test is using ARTA in loopback and set the sample rate to 192KHz. Set the generator to 60 KHz and typically something around 16 KHz comes out. In ASIO 60 KHz comes out. it seems to record correctly at 192, just playback. Sam issue in XP and Win 10. an ESI [email protected] in the same system works correctly. Something in the driver is causing resampling on playback.
I wasn’t aware of this problem. Unfortunately, there is little chance I could do something about it. Probably C-Media (if informed by ASUS) could fix this.
Thanks for reporting.
Hello, good morning!
Thanks for drivers.
I have a question. Is it normal I cannot adjust EQ with optical connection?
Hi,
First thanks to CarvedInside for continuing to produce new drivers for us all to use. A couple of days ago I installed the 1825 2 1.81a rev2 drivers on Windows 10 PC with a Xonar STX Essence. As other have already the sound footprint with these drivers is definitely different. I listen exclusively to classical music and find that stereo positioning is more precise and the bass seems slightly deeper with these drivers.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback.
Installed the last driver on the Xonar DG after a pause and playback it gives a reverse
Please clarify, it gives a reverse what?
I am not 100% able to pin down the cause yet, but I have the feeling that the 1.81 drivers have introduced DPC latency issues, and the do seem to sound different to me too. I am not using any control panel, just XonarSwitch. I am using a Xonar D2X and Windows 10 with the latest patches applied as of this time. I have been using your drivers for years man, thanks for the offer to the community.
Update:
I actually installed the 1.80a -r3. The difference in DPC latency is quite massive, with exactly the same settings through XonarSwitch. The driver highest reported dpc latency via LatencyMon went from 800-900ns with 1825, to 260ns with 1823.
With the 1825 driver, whenever I pressed the “start monitoring” button in LatencyMon while music was playing, the whole system would freeze with a repeat sound for half a second, and then start monitoring. I would also eventually get the report that my system isn’t capable of realtime video/audio tasks. That’s with everything equal except the difference in drivers. The older driver (1823, 1.80a-r3) behaves properly, the new one seems to be hogging my system completely. I even tried to switch systemplarform clock with it, and it was doing the same.
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Regarding the DPC latency issue. Thanks for reporting. I will look into it to see if I get the similar behavior.
Thanks for tidying up my posts! The difference was quite massive, I can write down my specs if you want them:
CPU Intel Core i7 [email protected] (overclocked via Turbo multiplier, HT enabled, and with frequency scaling enabled)
Sapphire P67 Hydra (with the last available Sandy Bridge bios, 32 PCI clocks set, all usb handoffs to «enabled», and the last AHCI Intel storage driver for my platform installed)
Radeon 7970 oc with boost (bios modded to a 280x with the 17.3.1 AMD driver installed)
Xonar D2X
Windows 10 Pro x64 14393.953
I first noticed something was off when I tried moving the Groove Music window while music was playing and I was adjusting EQ settings for my headphones. The window movement was jerky and the music would glitch out for a second. Then I realized that I have had high-DPC related issues with my system since installing 1825, and then I verify that DPC latency was indeed crazy, using LatencyMon. You have to use the system a bit, in order to verify it, but one of the sure tells is that pressing the «Start monitoring» button in LatencyMon will glitch any music playing and pause the whole system for a while and then DPC latency will start going insane as you use.
I’m 99% certain that it was responsible for at least two complete freezes in my computer.
i got same dpc latency problems months ago, and the cause was the antivirus (avast); uninstalled it and problem solved; strange cause before change platform (cpu+mobo) i used same antivirus/os/audio card with no problem at all
I am not using a resident av, and the only difference was the driver in my system.
I have the exactly same behaviour on my machine as Michael. i7 [email protected] GHz. Latency was lower with former driver, stalling with some music programs or simply playing music via MPC HC or WMP was not a problem. Tested with exactly same system settings in various games & programs. Nevertheless the driver itself is good.
How do you mean «the driver itself is good»? DPC latency is quite detrimental here. You do have a more powerful CPU, but you’re keeping the new driver? My guess is that you have HPET enabled?
Everything else than the DPC latency is good, meaning all the work Carved put into it. And yes, I keep the driver because it does what it should and beside the higher latency (which still is low enough that LatencyMon says it’s ok without any dropouts) I don’t have any complaints. I’m into music and work often with Buzz and loads of VST’s but don’t have problems. Only a few higher numbers as before don not create a problem as such (for me). But technically spoken: this driver HAS a higher DPC latency than the one before and it stutters the system if you start playing a file with Mediaplayer etc. I think one has to balance if it’s a problem (use older driver) or just something uncomfortable because DPC latency values are higher.
Oh, and just to mention — the impact of HPET is overvalued nowadays (imho). 😉
Does this mean that the DPC issues are back, or you never had them?
I had clicking and high latency since day one on windows 10. After I got fed up with it I downgraded to 8.1
@Zsolt: The DPC issues are permanent. Where «issue» only means higher DPC latency values and stuttering when starting Mediaplayer or such (on my system). It is insignificant with «daily work», so to say.
Hi, i have the same problems with the driver «UNi-Xonar-W10-1825-v1.81a-r2»
The Latency is very high. Since i upgrade to RX480 i have also Stuttering on my PC. I think the driver can be responsible for this.
Sorry for my english, but you need more confirmations. 🙂
Thank you for the feedback.
I use win 10, asus Xonar DS. I have crashes in Skype when PC is turning off.
Install your driver (UNi-Xonar-W10-1825-v1.81a-r2): Normal — Asus Xonar Audio Center — don’t fix my problem. All other options have fixed the Skype crashes.
But in front panel i have the headphones, and can’t change the stream from back panel to my headphone. (in Normal — asus xonar audio center, i can do this.)
Please, help.
Thanks for all the support for so many years!
I found out about uni xonar drivers after making the switch to win10 and searching online. I have owned the Essence ST pci since Sept 2010, no issues since until win10. I experienced the random 6kHz screech while using headphones via the headphone port of the card. Thought it was fluke until it occurred again. Thought it might’ve been driver issue, so I stopped using the headphone port and only used the L/R rca with an adapter for 3.5mm port. Few months later, I tried the headphone port again, fine for few weeks, then bam, the 6kHz surprise. Again I returned to using the L/R rca’s, even got an amp for passive speaker which also had it’s own headphone amp. So I used that for few months, until yesterday the 6kHz happened. I was comfortable, was not expecting the screech to affect rca ports of the card. It’s sad such a quality and well-regarded product is flawed.
For my uses, I am settled on using a cheap usb sound adapter. On the plus side, the adapter has a dedicated mic port so it’s very clear sound recorded with modmic, according to friends on discord.
I really enjoyed using the uni xonar drivers, as I didn’t want to part with my essence card at the time. Thanks for your time, I really appreciate the work!
I changed my mind. Trying the 1823 drivers from asus, which seems the same as the 1823 here.