Xonar D2 asio issue

Hey there,
I´ve bought a new rig and after a fresh Xp Sp3 install and Xonar D2 drivers, I can´t find the ASIO plug-in in any audio app ( Winamp, Foobar2000, etc.)
I´ve tryed placing the cmasiop.dll in Winamp plug-in folder but nothing happens. The same dll is in the located at the system32 folder too, and I´ve also tryed installing different versions of the Xonar inferno-driver.
Any help will be appreciated!

ASIO4ALL

Just FYI Xonars don't do any better on ASIO than KS

Thanks. You may be right about KS. I still don´t know why I can´t see asio driver in Winamp or Media Monkey plug-in section. Meanwhile, I´m testing KS. Seems that I´m gonna miss Xonar´s clips&pops...

moonshake said:

Thanks. You may be right about KS. I still don´t know why I can´t see asio driver in Winamp or Media Monkey plug-in section. Meanwhile, I´m testing KS. Seems that I´m gonna miss Xonar´s clips&pops...

Click to expand...

Never had a clip or pop out of my Xonar in 2 years. I think we have the same card
ASIO4ALL will let Foobar etc recognize the card as ASIO but I personally prefer the sound color I get out of KS with low latency.
I've personally found the best sound with Foobar, KS (32 bit) at like 350 or < ms and the process priority for foobar set to high on this card.

Put the foo_out_asio.dll in foobar 2000 components folder first.
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_out_asio
then add a virtual device in playback\output\asio virtual devices

Never had a clip or pop out of my Xonar in 2 years.

Click to expand...

No, no... lol, I mean the Xonar asio driver not the hardware itself (sweet, warm, cristal clear sound all the way).
I don´t like asio4all. Used Kx drivers ins old cards too. I´m testing kernel streaming now as you recommended, running fine.
The annoying thing is that I can´t see the proprietary XONAR_Asio driver in sound app´s options, even if I copy the DLL manually. Taht´s what bothers me a bit.
Also prefer Winamp over Foobar

moonshake said:

No, no... lol, I mean the Xonar asio driver not the hardware itself (sweet, warm, cristal clear sound all the way).
I don´t like asio4all. Used Kx drivers ins old cards too. I´m testing kernel streaming now as you recommended, running fine.
The annoying thing is that I can´t see the proprietary XONAR_Asio driver in sound app´s options, even if I copy the DLL manually. Taht´s what bothers me a bit.
Also prefer Winamp over Foobar

Click to expand...

Neither can I. I don't mind.

As per preferring Winamp to Foobar...
I can't see the logic there.. Unless you have lower end speaker, earphones where a better 'full sound' would be perceived vs a warmer fuller but much less detailed soundstage when compared to foobar.

I agree that Winamp does overall sound like a decent Stereo on good speakers, but Foobar sounds like the same Stereo with a much better AMP on it-- if at the cost of a SLIGHT amount of soundstage quality. It also sometimes sounds ever so slightly less coherent- but I assume this is a latency issue and my fault.