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<blockquote data-quote="dale77" data-source="post: 629485" data-attributes="member: 90675">Hi all,Perhaps I don't understand the whole ASIO thing very well, but anyway, here's my experience.My aim, having heard good things from others about ASIO inpact on music listening was to improve my music experience in MP.So, I installed ASIO4All on my realtek ALC889, MP 1.0.2 based Vista system. My theory was that ASIO4ALL would give MP direct access to the DACs in the ALC889 for best quality analog out...Then I tried to install the purevideo 0.2.1. My first attempt was using MP config, and the plugins install tab. This failed with a permissions problem trying to access a file. Presumably because I have UAC enabled.I then used the MP Installer from the MP group, which gets admin rights on startup, this was able to install ok.First problem in config. I chose output device, and selected ASIO4All v2. The only option it would give me was ATI HDMI. This is real bad, because that gives me stereo to my TV speakers. Eeek! In the ASIO4All config dialog I can see another option, Realtek Digital, and that has an 8 channel output, which is (I think) the one I want. Difficult to choose though, as pureaudio sure does want to keep that HDMI. I managed to get it chosen though, with some tricking of the pureaudio UI, and sure enough it did drive some nice 5.1 channel upmixed stereo out to my speakers. But, surrounds were not playing. And, depending on who got there first in mediaportal (mp sounds or pureaudio) ASIO showed the realtek 8 channel output as &quot;IN USE&quot; and I get no audio at all.Sigh. Maybe MP ASIO is not for me...Dale</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dale77, post: 629485, member: 90675"] Hi all, Perhaps I don't understand the whole ASIO thing very well, but anyway, here's my experience. My aim, having heard good things from others about ASIO inpact on music listening was to improve my music experience in MP. So, I installed ASIO4All on my realtek ALC889, MP 1.0.2 based Vista system. My theory was that ASIO4ALL would give MP direct access to the DACs in the ALC889 for best quality analog out... Then I tried to install the purevideo 0.2.1. My first attempt was using MP config, and the plugins install tab. This failed with a permissions problem trying to access a file. Presumably because I have UAC enabled. I then used the MP Installer from the MP group, which gets admin rights on startup, this was able to install ok. First problem in config. I chose output device, and selected ASIO4All v2. The only option it would give me was ATI HDMI. This is real bad, because that gives me stereo to my TV speakers. Eeek! In the ASIO4All config dialog I can see another option, Realtek Digital, and that has an 8 channel output, which is (I think) the one I want. Difficult to choose though, as pureaudio sure does want to keep that HDMI. I managed to get it chosen though, with some tricking of the pureaudio UI, and sure enough it did drive some nice 5.1 channel upmixed stereo out to my speakers. But, surrounds were not playing. And, depending on who got there first in mediaportal (mp sounds or pureaudio) ASIO showed the realtek 8 channel output as "IN USE" and I get no audio at all. Sigh. Maybe MP ASIO is not for me... Dale [/QUOTE]

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