audiophile 64bit beta driver, driving me LOL - The Official M-Audio User Forums

soniceffect · #1 07-02-2008, 11:46 AM

Hi all,
I'm hoping someone can help me. I am determined to make the leap to 64 bit architecture, however I seem to be having problems with running my audiophile 2496 using the beta drivers on the website. I understand there is a later version released in april08 (yes I have applied for the private beta) however since I only had access to the ones on the website, I have installed these however I get no output whatsoever (stereo rca out). Please could someone let me know if there is something I'm missing. I have windows xp64 with service pack 2 installed.

JA · #2 07-02-2008, 11:56 AM

This is a known issue with that beta driver when you have more than 2GB of RAM installed. Depending on your RAM configuration, you may be able to remove 1GB (if you have single channel memory) and operate successfully w/ 3GB; otherwise you may need to remove 2GB.

When did you apply for the private beta?

soniceffect · #3 07-02-2008, 01:29 PM

Applied today ... Thankyou for your help. Might try it in single channel, but if have to move to 2gb will probably wait for private beta (if accepted) or may even move back to x86

EDIT:- Have used 3.5gb rather than 4gb on dual and works fine m8. Out of curiosity, does the latest private beta address this issue?

JA · #4 07-02-2008, 05:16 PM

I don't know. Any discussion regarding the drivers private beta are only allowed on the private beta forum (which I'm not involved with).

soniceffect · #5 07-03-2008, 11:40 AM

Ah I see ... No worries. Here's hoping for release or admission then lol

nishant · #6 07-05-2008, 11:22 PM

i have a similar problem.now that i've tried removing my rams and i m down to 2gb ,it works but my restarts within a couple of minutes when running cubase 4.

Denton · #7 07-12-2008, 02:47 AM

I've been using the Delta_Ver_51_Final (beta) drivers in xp64 with 4gb for some time now.
Last night I upgraded to 8gb.. now there's no audio at all (not even in the control panel meters).
If I remove 4gb sure enough the audio returns. I'm absolutely gutted!

Does anyone know if there's a work around/fix for 8gb? or does M-Audio actually plan on creating a working xp64 driver set?

Thanks for anymore info :(

JA · #8 07-14-2008, 12:49 PM

I don't think there is a work around for the existing drivers. All new beta updates are currently only available through our private beta.

ab670 · #9 07-17-2008, 06:30 PM

So it's not so much of a beta program then; really more of a hearty 'screw you' to anyone foolish enough to have assumed that the existence of a 3 year old 'final beta' driver implied support for an OS...

Silly users, eh?

Peakdesign · #10 08-03-2008, 04:15 PM

I cannot believe this. I know from experience that the latest 32 bit drivers are weak, worse than the 3 year old ones. With each release, glitz is added, features have been dropped, and stability is not improved. That's been frustrating. Now it looks like there are no usable 64 bit drivers, just a smokescreen beta. What is the point of 64 bit addressing if you can't use over 2 Gb of RAM, and (this is important) what does it say about these 64 bit drivers if they trip up on the old 32 bit address boundary? It says they are having trouble modifying the 32 bit drivers instead of starting clean.

It adds up to say that M-Audio has no bona fide driver development programmers. Likely they are getting by with an application programmer who is valiantly trying to modify the old source code but doesn't know enough about kernel level coding. Not the first such case, it has never worked, and it will not work. At least for XP SP2 and earlier we have the old drivers, but with Prostools-M and XP SP3 not working with those, even this is becoming troublesome. This really isn't fair to the people who buy the stuff in good faith. A word to the wise: hardware without good drivers is less than useless, draw your own conclusions when selecting components for your next workstation.