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Post by Percussionista on Jun 4, 2015 19:34:47 GMT -5
Greetings from Windows 10 preview land. Just installed the latest eval copy, build 10074, on my former computer numero uno, which was a high-ish end machine originally running Win XP. Naturally, it doesn't have an audio driver for the installed Creative SoundBlaster card, so no audio. I had the same problem loading Win 8.1 on a slightly older machine that formerly ran Win XP. Anyway, has anyone tried to load the USB audio driver on a Win10 preview, preferably successfully? I could run USB into my spare XDA-2 for audio if so. Or get an inexpensive but reasonable USB audio dongle ;-)
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Post by knucklehead on Jun 4, 2015 19:52:27 GMT -5
USB drivers should already be loaded into the operating system. I've seen a few USB gadgets that needed a special driver and those come with the gadget. I use an inexpensive USB audio device - a Behringer UCA202 - its surprisingly good for 2 channel music. The price tag says it shouldn't be but I never let price sway my opinion of whether something is good or not - I listen. I'm scheduled to download the first release of Win 10 on July 29th - any reason I shouldn't take the free upgrade from Win 7? For the record I hated Win 8 - I should have waited until Win 8.1 was made available but I gave my son the Win 8 disc and he's used it. |
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Post by ÈlTwo on Jun 4, 2015 20:10:29 GMT -5
I'm running Build 10130, and the issue with Creative Labs chips/cards is known. I have a built in CL chip in my mobo, and as of this last build (came out Friday), the drivers no longer work. However, Creative Labs has posted this listing of when their drivers will come out for Windows 10 (it does vary by chip and device): Windows 10 software availability chart. |
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Post by Percussionista on Jun 5, 2015 11:57:51 GMT -5
USB drivers should already be loaded into the operating system.... I'm scheduled to download the first release of Win 10 on July 29th - any reason I shouldn't take the free upgrade from Win 7? For the record I hated Win 8 - I should have waited until Win 8.1 was made available but I gave my son the Win 8 disc and he's used it. Yes, I should have been more specific - USB drivers are already loaded, but not the one supplied by Emo to allow for high-def streams that DC-1, XDA-2, et. al. decode (i.e., 24-bit up to 192 kHz). No worries for now, but at some point the HD driver will need to work for Win10 systems. Yeah we bypassed Win8 but put Win8.1 on an older laptop that was running Win XP so that (a) we could see what Win8.1 was all about, and (b) avoided the issues with end-of-life XP support. Win8.1 was "acceptable" enough that we also overwrote another system running Win Vista. I put Win10 on my hulking winXP gamer system since it was just sitting there not getting used and I was concerned about hooking it up to the internet, and I get an early look at what Win10 is all about. |
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Post by ozohnoes on Aug 3, 2015 0:41:54 GMT -5
This is now an issue for me (I upgraded to Windows 10 64bit).
I'm happy to run lower quality audio until an official driver is released.
What driver can I use until an official one is released?
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Post by rocky500 on Aug 3, 2015 5:23:55 GMT -5
I am using the Schiit drivers for now as they seem to be compatible and work well with my DC-1. LINK TO DRIVERS |
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Post by ÈlTwo on Aug 3, 2015 7:16:06 GMT -5
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Post by rocky500 on Aug 3, 2015 8:34:54 GMT -5
I did in my post on there. I mentioned I used the Schiit drivers in Windows 8.1 then upgraded to win10. Now I uninstalled the older Schiit drivers and installed there new Windows 10 drivers. They worked great too. |
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Post by KeithL on Aug 3, 2015 11:26:24 GMT -5
Just to clarify.....
There are two USB AUDIO standards USB Audio Class 1 (UAC1), which in general supports up to 24/96k, and USB Audio Class 2 (UAC2), which supports at least up to 32/384k.
(Not to be confused with the USB HARDWARE standards USB 1.0, USB 1.1, USB 2.0, and USB 3.0.)
For quite some time now, Apple computers have had internal support for both UAC1 and UAC2.
For quite some time Windows has had support for UAC1, but NOT UAC2 (and Windows still does not).
That means that, if you want to play anything above 24/96k on Windows 7 or later, you have to install separate drivers to do so.
Note that some devices, like our new Ego DACs, can operate in either mode.
However, the XDA-2, the DC-1, and the USB input on the XMC-1 ONLY support UAC2.
We will be releasing Windows 10 UAC2 drivers shortly.
Incidentally, some flavors of Linux support only UAC1, and some support both UAC1 and UAC2 without extra drivers.
(You get what you get, we don't have separate Linux drivers.)
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