Hello everyone, just got here, did a bit of reading here and there, ready to post my thoughts and cry for help in this matter
Ok, I took my PC to a friend's house, he's got a Yamaha AV with all DTS and Atmos certifications, and the audio directly from my soundcard through the Toslink gives amazing results, but we couldn't get Atmos from a couple games, Resident evil 2 in this case, he told me I needed some Atmos driver, but the mod he pointed me to needed disabling DSE, which didn't make me so happy.
So we started reading a bit, and I got here, installed the DJ Urko drivers (clarification needed as I see people posting Alan's mod in this thread), and I got a bit overwhelmed by everything this driver packs.
So 1st impression was, I didn't quite like it as my audio was distorting and crackling, so started changing settings here and there, opening an App disabled all enhancements, I needed to disable everything from Sound applet, and sometimes things worked some other not, till I noticed an App was misbehaving.
So the DTS Sound App allowed me change my settings, turn it on and off, but this stopped working altogether, only thing I'm able to do is click the Settings cog, and check the about this app, everything else is unresponsive in the GUI, so I just uninstalled it.
Ok next part was checking if this worked with Voicemeeter banana, using the WDM driver is just impossible no matter how big I set the buffer, the audio is totally messed, so I had to try MME, big latency here and there. Then I disabled EVERYTHING and check the actual audio output as it is, tried some games, and there's a very noticeable latency in this audio driver, which I don't know how to fix or where it comes from, that's something I don't really like to be honest and this suddenly becomes a deal breaker to use this driver.
Disabling and enabling stuff seems to fix a couple problems. WMD allows me to use the enhancements, but audio is totally crackling and unpleasant to hear, like if you were tossing the audio to a wood chipper, and MME won't allow enhancements, big latency
So here are my doubts:
Is the driver actually signed or does it require DSE to be disabled to fully work?
Can I get only dolby to work in voicemeeter ?
Could this thread possibly get a makeover ? I feel like there's a lot of new info across the thread but it seems to me the OP hasn't updated the 1st post in a long time
Does this kind of enhancements work with ASIO ??
Is there anything in the middle of the driver introducing a big buffer???
My config is:
Asrock Fatal1ty AB350 itx/ac motherboard with ALC1220
ryzen 7 1700
8GB RAM 2666 (single channel)
Samsung Nvme drive
GTX 1060
Windows LTSC 2019 (1809 build 17763.615)
Using Audio Technica ATH-M40x so enhancements and problems are very clear on the ears, don't have an AV myself