Vista - Vista And SRS Audio Sandbox

hmm i have noticed that there was 6 bsod's (mainly 0x000124 [sound looping while playing]) while playing bioshock...
but other than that i havent noticed anything that bad....
i have updated to the latest Realtek 2.21 drivers and i have seen a reduction (i have had one appcrash 0xc00005 but thats a bioshock bug...)

Well is not all bad news after all from SRS Labs. I was informed today by one of their support agents, that they are aware of the crashing of Audio Sandbox in Vista x64. They said that it is a bug with the soud driver of SRS and that they are working on it to fix it. they will let me know when the fix is released.
and of course I will let you all know.
'Till then let SRS crash as long as it sound good!!!!!!!

I have a fix, that might work, its worked for me.

Instead of using the newest version witch i believe, you are having the problem with,
install the 1.7v , and enable it to start up with your computer.

I have never had a problem with it ever, not once, w/ Vista x64
I have a onboard sound card, wtih asus mother board, realtech a97' audio drivers, but as we all know srs installs its own driver, witch you must use, (and make sure it enabled in the device manager). i think the problem lies in the newest version 1.9v.
use 1.7v,.

The problem i ran into while using SRS on vista, and not xp was, that...
there is no way (until now, iv lernt a work around) to use your srs while outputting the sound via your SPIDIF aka digital out, weather it be optical or digital coax, while Xp allows for the SRS Digital output combination in vista you must select either speaker or digital output more or less disabling the ability to output digital while using the SRS feature.

I have since found a work around , but its just that ... a workaround. .....

basicly , from the speaker port on the back of the computer, I put a jumper cable aka a 1/8th regual headphone jack, from the speaker output into the "line in" input, then i go to recording divices, on the volume/sound/playback menu, select enable "Line in" duble click and go to the listen tab. and check the box that says listen and then under that select the digital out and not the speaker or the defult.

and if that helps you witch i cant see it, not .cuz SRS is great but we'd all still like to use SPDIF aka Digital sound instead of Anolog. RIGHT?
well if you have a Digital Coax or Optical then this will help you, injoy.
dsw274@yahoo.com


- Daniel




DSW

Hey dsw274 Thanks for this post!
I'm sure this will help a lot of people.
Personaly i have an MSI K9N SLI V2, and for the audio I got the SPIDF pins in the MoBo but not the plug itself.
I should check on getting the SPIDF plug since I noticed that the default configuration for SRS starts out with SPIDF, I have to change it to the Realtek HD output manually, but once it is set it keeps this configuration.
It is also configured to autostart with the system.

Now for the jumper "workaround" may be worth trying. I'll check it out and let you know how it went...

I'm having the exact same problem... but in 32bit vista
i dual boot with xp pro and it works fine, i've tried reinstalling, updating everything etc.. and only gotten so far.


any ideas?
only thing i could think of is putting the sp2 on?

thanks

Hi, I am using SRS audio sandbox for 2-3 years and i really loved it. But i have formated my computer and installed vista ultimate SP 2 64 bit...then i installed SRS audio lateset version.(1.9)...my problem is sound crash sometimes...i have the same problem,,but when i restart my computer,,it fixes. please help me...i dont want to install old version.

rasso

unfortunately no answers from srs about the new sound driver for x64.
it will crash your sound, and you will still need to reboot to bring it back.

methinks ,,i solved my problem....i unistalled high definiton audio driver and then i installed srs v1.9 (64bit) ..then srs working perfectly for 2 days..i dont get a problem....i think srs problem solved ?

Hi guys..

The only thing I tried to fix this problem and it worked fine.

the driver from SRS audio sandbox conflict with the driver sound card ...that 's why you must install the lastest driver before install SRS.

Secondly, the configuration checklist must detect correct what the sound card is... such ah if you got the sound card 5.1, but in configuration checklist at SRS can notdetect and status is no... you must to right click on the icon speaker, choose sound... then you will see the speak with your sound card control is not default and the speaker at your SRS control is default.

Click on speaker which SRS is default and choosing configure, the you select the correct audio channel at your sound card, then click on test to make sure you can hear all voice from all of your speaker then you click up to finish.

Now when you you open back to SRS sandbox and choose "configuration checklist and click at refrese button. Your status at "SAS is configured for your sound" will be change to yes.

Now you sound at SRS detected correct sound channel and will not be conflict to your sound driver...

It will fix the problem of yoursound for people who use ista ult x64.

HOPE IT WILL HELP YOU FIX YOUR PROBLEM WITH SRS.

Cheer.

thanks for the advice. But its been tryed already. this prosedure that you are talking about is mainly for speaker configuration. so that srs will know that you are using stereo, 5.1 etc.
either way no matter how you set up the speakers. you will still be using the srs virtual sound card driver with the phisical audio card.
well im not saying that this could not work, but i've tryied this already and the result still the same. good sound for about 2 hrs. then .....soud crash.

by the way what sound card are you using, (the physical one).