[Shorthand]

I love this sound card to death, great in my games, music sounds fantastic, my VOIP has never been better... Everything is better except one, XMBC.

Constant stuttering (FPS drops to 2.4/8 FPS) with any movie, and no sound. I have goggled every help thread, and tried everything. (The only thing that works is putting it into Analog, with the speakers set @ 2.0 on WASAPI. So I am missing out on having it configured for 2.1 sound, and being forced to use it in 2.0.

System Specs:

*AMD FX 8320
*24GB Corsair Vengeance Pro @1866
*XFX R9 290 (Latest AMD drivers)
*Xonar DG Sound Card (Latest drivers installed) (Using Analog)
*Logitech Z2300 2.1 (Analog)


Things I have tried......

-Tried changing between WASAPI and Directsound. No effect.
-Changing windows speaker configuration between 2.1, and 5.1
-Reverting between 12.1, 12.0 and so on. (I have not tried Gotham yet, but that might be next...)
-Changing between 5.1, and 2.1 in the audio settings in XMBC

+ A few other tricks from the big help threads

I have looked through the debug log and found this which I assume is where the problem is coming from "AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT"

Here is a bit from the debug log.

03:16:37 T:7000 NOTICE: Creating video thread
03:16:37 T:7000 NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
03:16:37 T:7000 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86020
03:16:37 T:6616 NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayerVideo start, auto delete: false
03:16:37 T:6616 NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
03:16:37 T:7000 NOTICE: Creating audio thread
03:16:37 T:4768 NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayerAudio start, auto delete: false
03:16:37 T:4768 NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio:rocess()
03:16:37 T:4768 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86020, channels: 6, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
03:16:37 T:6616 NOTICE: fps: 23.976024, pwidth: 1280, pheight: 534, dwidth: 1280, dheight: 534
03:16:37 T:3524 ERROR: CAESinkWASAPI::InitializeExclusive: IsFormatSupported failed (AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT) - trying to find a compatible format
03:16:37 T:6616 WARNING: CRenderManager::Configure - timeout waiting for previous frame
03:16:37 T:6616 NOTICE: Display resolution DESKTOP : 1680x1050 @ 60.00 - Full Screen (16)
03:16:37 T:6616 NOTICE: D3D: rendering method forced to DXVA2 processor
03:16:52 T:3148 NOTICE: CJoystick::EnumJoysticksCallback : Enabled Joystick: Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2 USB
03:16:52 T:3148 NOTICE: CJoystick::EnumJoysticksCallback : Total Axis: 4 Total Hats: 1 Total Buttons: 12
03:17:01 T:3148 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
03:17:01 T:3148 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: closing audio stream
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: Closing audio stream
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: Waiting for audio thread to exit
03:17:01 T:4768 NOTICE: thread end: CDVDPlayerAudio::OnExit()
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: Closing audio device
03:17:01 T:3524 ERROR: CAESinkWASAPI::InitializeExclusive: IsFormatSupported failed (AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT) - trying to find a compatible format
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: Deleting audio codec
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: closing video stream
03:17:01 T:7000 NOTICE: Closing video stream

If anyone has any ideas on this I would be happy as hell to hear it .

Cheers !

[jjd-uk]

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