Share your opinion/experience on the Phoebus here.

[hingj0n]

So a half year later since I bought this card, nothing changed really... The drivers suck monkey b*lls, especially on Windows 8.

The following problems are those which I find the most annoying;
Game Crashes
Incompatible Games
Controller volume knob buggs (sound hangs and if you turn the volume up using the knob, the volume goes up and down randomly
Sample rate on 192khz just doesn't work well, pitch changes, sound pops in background applications like youtube
Sometimes the audio is a low volume when changing from headphones to speakers even though it's on max volume
Xear Surround sounds really awfull, and it locks the sample rate to 48khz.
Dolby Home Theater v4 Volume leveling is sometimes really annoying (I think this is on Dolby)

DTS is buggy as hell, it's like that the surround effect is only coming from the left side.

Okay, Raja@ASUS, let me clarify the 192khz part, if you start a game in 192khz, the sound on iTunes or Youtube starts popping, just like the game sound itself. Though you can close the background apps and restart the game (then you won't have popping sounds), you still have a different pitch when your graphics card starts working (like in SimCity) it's so annoying that I just go back to 44.1 khz.

And the worst of all:
Microphone Noise... Damn... even though this card doesn't use anything from the motherboard its power, I still get an anoying noise.


If the drivers were well-made, I would be glad that I've bought this product, but... I'm very dissapointed at the moment and would be glad if ASUS would make a trade offer or gave me my money back.

So guys, what do you think?

[AVtemp]

Ok.Thanks.
We`re doomed 😞

[chilinmichael]

The hilarious part is a YEAR LATER WHQL drivers are "on the way"...hey great! Make everyone who paid $200 for a sound card wait longer than internal audio on my Maximus V Formula for Protected mode in WIndows 8 to work. That's just NOT A VALID ANSWER...it's ridiculous on Asus' part...absolutely absurd. It's the very reason Asus has an F rating with the BBB. You should have had one at Windows 8 launch, that's exactly WHY companies like yours (Asus) get Preview Releases. Nevermind the fact that Windows 8.1 has broken Windows 8 drivers because of differences but many companies (like Sound Blaster) fixed it a week in...on a preview release! By the time Asus gets a Windows 8 driver going, 8.1 will have broken it and the users will be waiting a year AGAIN I'm certain. So damn glad I got rid of this sound card...

[Raja]

CM, you've had your say repeadtedly, don't expect it to go on unchecked. Consider this a warning. You don't have the soundcard anymore, you've more than expressed your disdain. If you don't like what's happening, take a few days away from the forum and come back when you've calmed down. I don't want to have to give out more vacations over this.

[hingj0n]

Okay, Raja@ASUS, let me clarify the 192khz part, if you start a game in 192khz, the sound on iTunes or Youtube starts popping, just like the game sound itself. Though you can close the background apps and restart the game (then you won't have popping sounds), you still have a different pitch when your graphics card starts working (like in SimCity) it's so annoying that I just go back to 44.1 khz.

This is why I said that it just doesn't work.

[hingj0n]

Raja@ASUS, you could test it by yourself, try playing a game on 192khz, like Battlefield or SimCity, listen to the pitch as the game loads and goes to ingame.

[Raja]

hingj0n wrote:
Raja@ASUS, you could test it by yourself, try playing a game on 192khz, like Battlefield or SimCity, listen to the pitch as the game loads and goes to ingame.

I don't have this issue, which is why I asked you for info. The only time I had glitches at higher sample rates was when my card was getting too hot sandwiched between two gtx 570s in a lian like v2110 case. Sorted out ventilation and it went away. I don't have any volume control issues either so I'm stumped, sorry.

[hingj0n]

Hmmm, strange, my soundcard doesn't get to hot, I only got a 560GTX TI with decent amount of airflow in my computer case. It mostly happens when background apps are running.

PS.

Do you guys have a big team or something working on the drivers, are those guys different from those who are responsible for the Essence ST/STX? (Just curious)

[HEMAH]

AVtemp for the asus Sound team, wait, there's none, ok just hire AVtemp to make us happy with some drivers and whoever he wants to choose to help him.
VOTE !

[KILLER_K]

Honestly we all have been helping with the drivers. Hence the beta testing and bug submitting we been doing over the year. Basically we are the team for the sound card. We are the ones helping fix the product we bought. Perhaps too many Indians and not enough Chiefs. As the old saying goes.

HEMAH wrote:
AVtemp for the asus Sound team, wait, there's none, ok just hire AVtemp to make us happy with some drivers and whoever he wants to choose to help him.
VOTE !

[dan_ivan]

Hello; I don't remember having popping problems with Battlefield (I don't have it installed at this moment to check it) but I have popping problem with Assassins Creed 3 and a very big delay (between video and audio) in videos at 24 bit with 192 khz; I've tried the game with 24/48 khz setup and the game works better. I also installed my older creative sound card to check the problem but there was none.
I hope incoming drivers will repair the current issues with this card.