#XONAR D1 WINDOWS 10 DRIVER#

Whats important to look at from a sound perspective is the DAC and Op-Amp which are responsible for the sound quality on the analog outputs. If you have a processor released over the last five years, you would not have to worry about loosing significant frames due to offloading of sound to the CPU.

In my experience I have few issues with game audio in Low DPS Latency mode. Low latency mode removes hardware acceleration on the Xonar AV 100 chip on this card but with most modern games off loading sound processing to the CPU, hardware acceleration is not a must.

#XONAR D1 WINDOWS 10 DRIVER#

While the D1 is capable of accelerating audio in hardware I personally found the Xonar Unified driver in Low DPS Latency modeР’В to be more responsive than the Asus driver. Holding the D1 in your hand will give you an idea of the workmanship that went into this device. This is not to say that the D1 had its fair share of audio issues in games like Fallout 3 but then again I had these same issues with the Creative Fatality Pro which leaves me to believe that this may be an issue with the game engine not supporting add on sound cards.

This was a breadth of fresh air coming from the Creative camp which has been problematic ever since direct sound was dropped from Windows. If you want better you will have to dish out more $$ but for the $67 I spent for this I think the quality is more than adequate. This card comes with good but not great components.

Xonar d1 windows 10