How well do the beta drivers for Windows 8.1 work on this sound card? I've heard the driver support is pretty bad
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The official Asus drivers for this card are awful. I never got them to work properly for the one purpose I purchased the card for under Windows 7, 8, or 8.1. I did find though that someone had made modified drivers in the community that work flawlessly. You can find them here: http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/Don't even install the official drivers, because the uninstall process doesn't clean them up properly. I had to reinstall Windows to start clean and get the UNi Drivers cleanly installed. It worked fine then though. I'm using the SPDIF out to drive my headphone stack. The official Asus drivers for this card are awful. I never got them to work properly for the one purpose I purchased the card for under Windows 7, 8, or 8.1. I did find though that someone had made modified drivers in the community that work flawlessly. You can find them here: http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/Don't even install the official drivers, because the uninstall process doesn't clean them up properly. I had to reinstall Windows to start clean and get the UNi Drivers cleanly installed. It worked fine then though. I'm using the SPDIF out to drive my... » Read More The official Asus drivers for this card are awful. I never got them to work properly for the one purpose I purchased the card for under Windows 7, 8, or 8.1. I did find though that someone had made modified drivers in the community that work flawlessly. You can find them here: http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/Don't even install the official drivers, because the uninstall process doesn't clean them up properly. I had to reinstall Windows to start clean and get the UNi Drivers cleanly installed. It worked fine then though. I'm using the SPDIF out to drive my headphone stack. « Show Less
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I am running the version 8.1.8.1822 drivers, which I believe are the Beta drivers and they have been working fine for me for that last 3 months. The only problem in my mind is that the DSX Audio Center gets installed as a startup application, which you don't really need, so I have it disabled.
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Hello, The Q2U works with my Windows 8.1 machine that I just update. I did just lower the volume alittle bit in preferences because Windows 8 setsthe default volume at maximum gain
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Wow, I am truly sorry that one is too technical a question for me. I purchased to replace a Sound Blaster card that wasn't compatible with Windows 7 updates. It works great and the sound is fine but other than it works for me is the best I can tell you.
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I am running one now on a Windows 8.1 ultrabook. Win 8.1 detected it and installed a compatible driver without me having to do anything.
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The Asus Xonar class are great products. You should have no problem installing this as there are no drivers needed in Win 7 and Win 8/8.1. The sound from that card is rich and beautiful.
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Latest drivers can be found online and installed easily. They are stable on windows 7 as well. The sound is clear, but the input cables and signal needs to be clean. Any microphone can be used.
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There were some driver issues early after the release of Win 8.1 but these seem to have been ironed out now, I have noticed no problems.
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I use it with Windows 8.1 and have not had any issues - however, I have two monitors so I do not use the monitor jacks.
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Did you get it? I have one of them, it doesn't work. Neither do 3 others I have tried in the last week though, so I think I have a bad sound card. Sorry - I think it worked alright before it stopped working, but I could not swear it and I have a PC. Good luck.
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Yes and yes. You can find the drivers on the M-Audio webpage. I use Windows 7 64-bit, and I have two of these cables that work perfectly on it.
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I'm currently using it on Windows 8 Pro 64-bit. I had a weird issue after upgrading from 7 to 8 which made the audio not work, but uninstalling and reinstalling fixed the problem.
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Mine works fine in 8.1. Did you make sure to grab the latest drivers from Logitech?
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It's not terrible. It causes strange audio bugs in certain games for me where it loops the same sound over and over freezing whatever program or game I'm in. Could be driver related not sure though. I keep mine disabled.
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I use this on a PC running windows 8, there are drivers that you need to download from the native instruments website, it happened the same to me when I first connected it, i was freaking out because it didnt work.
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you don't need any drivers. just plug it in and if you have a problem it would be in your pcs audio settings
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Yes, you can download the latest drivers from m-audio website. It work on win7
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There is a driver for Win 8.1 ( http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation?os=Windows%208.1%20-%2064 )