Introducing HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 (Dolby Digital Live PCI) - Page 53

brocke8 · 11th June 2006, 7:43 PM

I can report one thing this card works perfectly with windows vista Beta 2

No issues or problems experienced yet still need to do a bit off testing.

Lucky I held on to it.

kiwimeat · 11th June 2006, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brocke8

I can report one thing this card works perfectly with windows vista Beta 2

No issues or problems experienced yet still need to do a bit off testing.

Lucky I held on to it.

Actually it's been fine all the way through the CTP releases as well. Perhaps they can downgrade the Vista driver to make a nice one for XP?!

brocke8 · 12th June 2006, 12:08 AM

The 5.1 revert bug is gone and all the other issues were fixed in xp with the last driver.

With vista you don't have to run a script for the reverting speakers anymore and the 5.1 sound quality its truely far better it windows vista than xp.

It could be my imagination but I have dual boot xp and vista and comparing them both, it does sound better on vista.

chicken- · 12th June 2006, 11:12 AM

brocke8: How did you get it working in Vista? My X-Plosion is detected as Uknown Device and the XP drivers will not load for it.

*edit* This is for Vista x64

brocke8 · 12th June 2006, 7:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chicken-

brocke8: How did you get it working in Vista? My X-Plosion is detected as Uknown Device and the XP drivers will not load for it.

*edit* This is for Vista x64

The Mystique drivers are built into windows vista so no need to download drivers.

The xplosion is a different chip if i'm not mistaken.

I can not stress enough how well the mystique card works under vista.

There is always some advantages to owning slightly older hardware, support is much better.

chicken- · 13th June 2006, 1:14 PM

The XPlosion and the XMystique use virtually identical drivers, the XPlosion just has an extra DTS library file it can make calls to. Looks like MS didn't include the XPlosion in their bundled drivers .inf though.

Korbah · 14th June 2006, 10:35 PM

does that mean x-mystique could used hacked drivers to get DTS?

or is it completely missing the required hardware chip to do this?

Heartstarter · 15th June 2006, 6:34 PM

Using the latest BETA driver BF2 is $hitHou$se!!! No matter what setting I use it stutters. Damn............

Using 5_12_1_47_3_32BIT_BETA

Chazza · 15th June 2006, 7:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Korbah

does that mean x-mystique could used hacked drivers to get DTS?

This would not be possibe. It's a different chip and it does not support DTS encoding in hardware.

MicKMicK · 18th June 2006, 7:21 PM

Whats the "best" setting for music with this card?

I also have the Logitech Z5500s and putting it on DD Live seems to sound a bit flatter (definately quieter tho) than if i were to put it on one of the 'Digital Audio 44.1 - 96' settings. In my Media Players I dont have the equaliser on because i can never make it sound good and the presets on the control panel of the audio driver dont seem to sound that good either.

Chazza · 19th June 2006, 7:24 PM

To be honest I just use analog outputs to my Z5500's. The digital output doesn't sound as good for whatever reason (I don't want to use 2ch mode, and DDL has a slight delay caused by the reencoding which I can notice when I'm feeding my electric guitar through to the speakers).

vanjab · 21st June 2006, 1:17 AM

I noticed people said that the card works in windows vista beta 2, but i was left wondering if this is only the 32 bit version?

I'm looking to move to vista, but can't decide if I should go 64 bit or not

d-cee · 21st June 2006, 7:22 PM

does anyone know if this card does bit perfect output? i know it can be done with KS/asio4all since it doesnt have native asio drivers, but does anyone know if it resamples at the hardware level?

ir0nhide · 26th June 2006, 9:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Heartstarter

Using the latest BETA driver BF2 is $hitHou$se!!! No matter what setting I use it stutters. Damn............

Using 5_12_1_47_3_32BIT_BETA

Fkn a, all my voice overs are like chipmunk speed (double at least, very high pitched and fast).

brocke8 · 27th June 2006, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanjab

I noticed people said that the card works in windows vista beta 2, but i was left wondering if this is only the 32 bit version?

I'm looking to move to vista, but can't decide if I should go 64 bit or not

I would go vista 64 at the moment as drivers are very scarce and a lot of programs just don't run even in 32 vista.

And yes in 32bit vista the card works fine.

12th June 2006, 11:12 AM	#784
chicken- Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fortitude Valley, QLD Posts: 664	brocke8: How did you get it working in Vista? My X-Plosion is detected as Uknown Device and the XP drivers will not load for it. edit This is for Vista x64 __________________ Last.FM Music Profile - PCDB Profile Last edited by chicken-; 12th June 2006 at 11:14 AM.

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chicken- Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Fortitude Valley, QLD Posts: 664	The XPlosion and the XMystique use virtually identical drivers, the XPlosion just has an extra DTS library file it can make calls to. Looks like MS didn't include the XPlosion in their bundled drivers .inf though. __________________ Last.FM Music Profile - PCDB Profile

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Korbah Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Brisbane Posts: 342	does that mean x-mystique could used hacked drivers to get DTS? or is it completely missing the required hardware chip to do this? __________________ Comp: Intel C2D e2160 (@ 3.0Ghz), 4gig DDR2 800, 512mb 8800GT, Mobo: GA-P35-DS3, Antec 550 TruePower. Dell E248WFP 24" LCD + Chimei 22" LCD run dual-screen.

15th June 2006, 6:34 PM	#788
Heartstarter Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 185	Using the latest BETA driver BF2 is $hitHou$se!!! No matter what setting I use it stutters. Damn............ Using 5_12_1_47_3_32BIT_BETA Last edited by Heartstarter; 15th June 2006 at 6:52 PM.

19th June 2006, 7:24 PM	#791
Chazza Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,112	To be honest I just use analog outputs to my Z5500's. The digital output doesn't sound as good for whatever reason (I don't want to use 2ch mode, and DDL has a slight delay caused by the reencoding which I can notice when I'm feeding my electric guitar through to the speakers). __________________ Chazza

11th June 2006, 7:43 PM	#781
brocke8 Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Dundas, Sydney Posts: 1,282	I can report one thing this card works perfectly with windows vista Beta 2 No issues or problems experienced yet still need to do a bit off testing. Lucky I held on to it.

12th June 2006, 12:08 AM	#783
brocke8 Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Dundas, Sydney Posts: 1,282	The 5.1 revert bug is gone and all the other issues were fixed in xp with the last driver. With vista you don't have to run a script for the reverting speakers anymore and the 5.1 sound quality its truely far better it windows vista than xp. It could be my imagination but I have dual boot xp and vista and comparing them both, it does sound better on vista.

18th June 2006, 7:21 PM	#790
MicKMicK Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 244	Whats the "best" setting for music with this card? I also have the Logitech Z5500s and putting it on DD Live seems to sound a bit flatter (definately quieter tho) than if i were to put it on one of the 'Digital Audio 44.1 - 96' settings. In my Media Players I dont have the equaliser on because i can never make it sound good and the presets on the control panel of the audio driver dont seem to sound that good either.

21st June 2006, 1:17 AM	#792
vanjab Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1	I noticed people said that the card works in windows vista beta 2, but i was left wondering if this is only the 32 bit version? I'm looking to move to vista, but can't decide if I should go 64 bit or not

21st June 2006, 7:22 PM	#793
d-cee Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 147	does anyone know if this card does bit perfect output? i know it can be done with KS/asio4all since it doesnt have native asio drivers, but does anyone know if it resamples at the hardware level?