USB Soundcard 2.21 beta driver up for testing
We have a new driver for our USB sound cards ready which is still in beta - but it solves one of the issues we have gotten many reports about lately: The critical errors with World of Warcraft.
We know it’s just a beta and that there might be some problems, but since we have so many WoW players out there, we assumed you guys wanted to take the chance to try out this new driver and leave some feedback in the comments – it is greatly appreciated. So if you need our driver badly and have experience with trying beta versions (we know many of you run Windows 7 already), you can give this thing a spin for sure!
Known issues:
- Under Vista, selecting a different sound source then 2 CH can result in a DirectSound error, which can be solved by selecting 2 CH again and re-plugging the device
P.S.: This is a beta. There can be problems. If you experience any – please leave a comment including your operating system so we can verify and eliminate it. :)
/Jonas (research and development team)
June 17th, 2009 22:18
SteelSeries, thank you for the quick patch. :)
So far the fix works perfectly!
I’m having no problems, and I’m running on Windows XP Pro SP3.
If I run into any problems in the future I’ll let you know.
June 23rd, 2009 21:25
I did several hours of recording audio with this new driver and occasionally (rarely, though increasingly often it seems) there’ll be very loud static for several seconds. After that it’ll just be gone again.
It’ll happen for 3seconds out of a 2hour recording. But it’s very very unpleasant to listen to.
This is on Windows 7 RC Build 7100.
June 23rd, 2009 23:41
What about driver for MacOS
June 25th, 2009 09:19
Update on my static sound:
I’ve uninstalled the driver and installed it again, and it seems to be less frequent now and shorter than it was. It had gotten up to a point of 10seconds of static per 10min.
It’s on a 5Hv2 with usb soundcard on Win7 RC1 Build 7100 x64.
July 7th, 2009 22:58
Works great for me, thanks for the new drivers! :) xx
July 24th, 2009 19:07
Thank you for new driver.It working very good in my system;windows xp pro sp3.Iam interesting if is posible a driver for only 2 ch(stereo)and best performance.I know many people are need this soundcard for his laptop in this configuration.Thanks and success!
July 26th, 2009 18:34
Windows XP 32 bit.
When I play WoW and have vent open (and other sound programs (browsers with video, iTunes)), when I go into setup it makes everyones mic fuzzy as well as all other sounds (music becomes static, browser sounds, WoW sounds).
I then have to close all the programs which are generating sound before reloading them one by one, reloading one program doens’t work.
Don’t know why this is happen or if anyone else is getting this..
However, I have simply reverted back to the ones on the official SteelSeries website and using basic hardware acceleration in sound settings.
However, thank you though they have been great apart from that little error.
Also, it gives huge mic feedback in Vent (Ventrillo for those..)
August 26th, 2009 15:58
Since when complete driver ?
November 22nd, 2009 03:10
We need another update, my mic keeps going out and I think its the drivers. I’m using windows 7 ultimate 32 bit. Randomly my mic goes out. Headset is fine majority of the time.
November 25th, 2009 14:14
I am having the same problem as stated above. After an hour of recording I will get a nasty static noise from the microphone which can last from 1 to 10 seconds. I am using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. Please advise.
December 3rd, 2009 21:03
For those who don’t know, SteelSeries has released new versions of the driver - 2.30 for XP and Vista - 1.00 for Win 7. The new drivers for Win 7 fixed my issue that I was having.
Download them here:
http://www.steelseries.com/int/download
Headset sounds GREAT and the mic is super crisp! Thanks for the quick fix, SS.
December 6th, 2009 22:49
Hell yeah, thanks Bsp for letting me know I’ve been watching this and hope this fixes my mic from having issues with sound.
December 7th, 2009 18:54
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