New Beta Phoebus-3.08(CR)

[GoNz0-]

Well I have to say so far I am impressed and only by one feature so far, I rebooted and the headphone gain was right where i left it on High Gain!

Thanks for listening Asus 🙂

[screamer980]

I put a brand new SSD in my Rig, insatlled Win 8 64-Bit.
No Firmware update.
I tried all 5 possible slots in my CH V. Uninstalled everytime driver before switching the slot.
No Indication for Firmware Update popped up.
Windows 8 was a virgin installation without installing anything.
Bios loaded with optimized settings and no OC.
Don't know what to do to force this Firmware Update.
Thx Sonar Driver Team. This card took me hours of my time.
And not to mention the problems I had with BF3 and STILL have.

[dsp]

tried once more (win7 x64)
uninstalled rebooted shutdown restart installed NOTHING !
cant move my card got 2 gpu's watercooled
tried every scenario possible no update.

[screamer980]

Tried the method with switching the pci-E. Still 1014.

[Luxion]

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling this driverset twice (once with soft-boots at any given prompts, once with full shutdowns at the same prompts) and the drivers installed normally, but I didn't get prompted at all for a firmware upgrade. The only significant prompt I got along the way was the "Choose not to restart the computer..." one (which appeared on its own and with no preceding prompts of any kind after the installation started), which as mentioned previously appeared before the actual "Would you like to reboot your computer now?" prompt.

And before I go fill out a bug report I suppose this would be a good time to ask: what exactly does the firmware update do, anyway?

[Killa]

Is anyone else having issues in BF3 with a headset and your gun sounds are coming out of the right headphone?

I Updated to the newest beta drivers, no problems with firmware not updating.

I have Sennheiser PC 350 headset, sample rate at 192 - 24. High gain on and everything else off.
When ever i load into BF3 with these settings my gunshots are coming out of my right headphone, but i still hear the rest of the game out of my left headphone. Didnt have this problem with the last beta driver. When i turn Xear Surround max on, the problem goes away but my sound quality and volume level goes down.

[Glasofruix]

Killa wrote:
Is anyone else having issues in BF3 with a headset and your gun sounds are coming out of the right headphone?

I Updated to the newest beta drivers, no problems with firmware not updating.

I have Sennheiser PC 350 headset, sample rate at 192 - 24. High gain on and everything else off.
When ever i load into BF3 with these settings my gunshots are coming out of my right headphone, but i still hear the rest of the game out of my left headphone. Didnt have this problem with the last beta driver. When i turn Xear Surround max on, the problem goes away but my sound quality and volume level goes down.

192Khz? Why in the name of spaghetti monster, why? BF3 as most games doesn't go higher than 48Khz, and frankly oversampling can cause a lot of problems. For your channel problem you might try unplugging your headset during a game and then plugging it back in, forcing the driver to re-detect a headset and set the channels accordingly (also make sure you're in "headphones" mode in BF3 settings). That happened a lot with the old beta drivers and surround setups, the card switched channels around and the only solution was to alt-tam set to stereo then back to 5.1/7.1.

[Case]

Killa wrote:
Is anyone else having issues in BF3 with a headset and your gun sounds are coming out of the right headphone?

I have this problem with both the old beta Windows 8 driver and the current pre-release beta driver. Audio in BF3 only worked correctly with the latest beta Windows 7 drivers that I used before Asus had Windows 8 drivers available. They had other problems though so I stopped using them.

Killa wrote:
I Updated to the newest beta drivers, no problems with firmware not updating.

No problems here either. I wonder if the people with updating problems had Windows automatically install the old drivers from Windows Update. It does that if it's connected to internet and automatic driver installation isn't disabled.

Killa wrote:
I have Sennheiser PC 350 headset, sample rate at 192 - 24. High gain on and everything else off.
When ever i load into BF3 with these settings my gunshots are coming out of my right headphone, but i still hear the rest of the game out of my left headphone. Didnt have this problem with the last beta driver. When i turn Xear Surround max on, the problem goes away but my sound quality and volume level goes down.

I haven't tried toying around with different settings, I always just enable 48 kHz 24 bit output and the same settings for mic input.
I recall all sounds are concentrated to the right headphone though. At least I'm sure that playing is very difficult as you can't tell the direction of sounds. I have checked many times that all effects in sound card control program are off and I have also tried uninstalling the Dolby stuff, but nothing helps. I once managed to fix the audio by alt-tabbing to Windows during the game and enabled the "Disable all enhancements" option for headphones. But on next match the horrible audio was back and I noticed the tickmark was gone. The same trick no longer worked.

I am forced to use the card with the default Microsoft High Definition Audio drivers. I don't know if it's the card's fault or the fault of missing drivers, but sometimes audio playback jumps to wrong speakers (when I'm not playing BF3 I have analog 5.1 speakers connected). Sometimes stereo output jumps from front channels to rear channels. This used to happen quite often with the old firmware when audio was resumed after having been paused for several minutes. With the new firmware I have so far had it happen only once, but this time it happened without anything being in paused state.

Great card if things get fixed.

[M0d]

Case wrote:
I have this problem with both the old beta Windows 8 driver and the current pre-release beta driver. Audio in BF3 only worked correctly with the latest beta Windows 7 drivers that I used before Asus had Windows 8 drivers available. They had other problems though so I stopped using them.


No problems here either. I wonder if the people with updating problems had Windows automatically install the old drivers from Windows Update. It does that if it's connected to internet and automatic driver installation isn't disabled.


I haven't tried toying around with different settings, I always just enable 48 kHz 24 bit output and the same settings for mic input.
I recall all sounds are concentrated to the right headphone though. At least I'm sure that playing is very difficult as you can't tell the direction of sounds. I have checked many times that all effects in sound card control program are off and I have also tried uninstalling the Dolby stuff, but nothing helps. I once managed to fix the audio by alt-tabbing to Windows during the game and enabled the "Disable all enhancements" option for headphones. But on next match the horrible audio was back and I noticed the tickmark was gone. The same trick no longer worked.

I am forced to use the card with the default Microsoft High Definition Audio drivers. I don't know if it's the card's fault or the fault of missing drivers, but sometimes audio playback jumps to wrong speakers (when I'm not playing BF3 I have analog 5.1 speakers connected). Sometimes stereo output jumps from front channels to rear channels. This used to happen quite often with the old firmware when audio was resumed after having been paused for several minutes. With the new firmware I have so far had it happen only once, but this time it happened without anything being in paused state.

Great card if things get fixed.

Seems like this one sided sound is fixed for me if I turn on Enhanced stereo mode in BF3 sound settings. Of course Headphones Sound system also selected.

[txfeinbergs]

Well, this was my first switch to an ASUS soundcard from 10+ years of using Creative, and although the Xonar Phoebus's HW is top notch, the SW leaves so much to be desired and is unnecessarily confusing, that I am willing to switch to the SoundBlaster ZX even though I know from a HW spec standpoint, it is not as good.

I had thought Creative had bad driver support, but ASUS's is actually worse (and you must actually have to be trying to be that bad to get under Creative's low bar). When you have to switch PCI slots to get the driver to recognize the firmware update, that is where I draw the line.

The nice thing about the Sound Blaster ZX is that the SW suite/driver is top notch, easy to understand, and actually works!

(FYI, there are 5 ZXs left on Amazon as of this morning).

[Gopher]

This is really really weird.

My motherboard have 3 PCI-E x16 slots. 2 of those was occupied by my 2x 680's in SLI. The Phoebus was sitting in the third x16 slot. As a last resort, I pulled out one of my graphics cards and moved the Phoebus to it's slot and now I get prompted for the firmware update.