Vista 4 all

[InuYasha]

Did asio4all work with windows vista

[Andyeb]

ASIO4ALL is working a treat here with beta 2. In fact on this system, vista is useless as a music production platform without it.

If Microsoft had any sense, they'd licence it from Michael for inclusion in vista, as Mac OS X has offered low latency performace out-of-the-box for years with CoreAudio

[Adion]

Does it also work with Vista 64-bit? I think you can't use 32-bit drivers then, so I think the drivers would have to be recompiled for 64-bit then?

[asdf]

Yeah why doesn't Windows come with low-latency support? It sucks that users to have to worry about these hardware issues.

[flype]

Hello,

my friend use an Audiotrack 'Inca88' (PCI) soundcard on WinXP.
We have to change the IRQ in the BIOS (Award) - And now it works. The motherboard / CPU are 64Bit, so we planned to install XP64 or Vista64 when ready. At the moment, he doesn't use Asio4All as the provided Inca88 driver still works.

But my questions is
1/ what's happened if we install the manufacturer 32Bit driver on Win64 ?
2/ And does Asio4All still needs the manufacturer driver to works ?
3/ So what i need to use the Inca88 on XP64 ?

Thanks in advance.

[mad]

adf,

As I understand, the problem comes after the compromise Microsoft took with the entertainment industry to fully enforce the DRM standards. Vista is designed to prevent users to make illegal copies of HD movies like the ones from Blue Ray disks, requiring the hardware and/or drivers to decrypt contents and once decrypted to route them straight to the screen and speakers, without giving a chance to reroute it digitally back to any other program. Moreover, they grant the movie industry the right to further "ban" hardware and drivers should they find someone was able to hihack them: Blue Ray disks can carry a black list of hardware/software to tell Vista to disengage them by means of forcing the content to be reproduced (and eventually copied) on a DVD lower quality (bringing your high-tech investment back to the stone age until you install new, approved drivers that prevents the hihack). So Vista is aimed to the consumer and not to the producer: music and video production requires functionality deemed as "dangerous" by the entertainment industry, and any attempt to provide a low latency driver meeting the DRM requirements would be either pointless due to the imposed processing overload, or would make this overload noticeable (when comparing the same hardware with another SO like XP).

It's good to know A4A works with Vista. Now I may give Vista a try, since I don't plan to watch Blue Ray with my computer. Anyway, I am curious now. I would like to hear from Vista users having Blue Ray (and using it to watch movies) whether they had any drawbacks from using A4A.

PS: Don't take my word for this, my understanding of this issue is pretty rough, just google "Vista and DRM" and see how many people is arguing about this subject. There's even a joke, since many medical digital imaging systems implements DRM, of a doctor telling his patient: "well, either you have a lung cancer, or that spot is my Vista lowering this image quality because someone else used the same hardware to copy a movie".