ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim Audio Card with True Blu-ray Audio Designed to Fit All Home Theater PCs

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Bought one of these for my father's HTPC. The card has great build quality and sound, "when it works." ASUS has the worst drivers in the world built for this card. He is running Windows 7 64-bit, and the drivers are the worst I've ever experienced. Realtek produces better drivers.I found out after about 6 hours of testing: If you do not kill "HsMgr.exe" & "HsMgr64.exe" installed by ASUS, some applications will fail to start on your computer. If I enable "GX" (DS3D GX 2.0), Left 4 Dead and other Source base games will crash and a looping sound will happen until the machine restarts. ASUS support blames the problem on your installation of your operating system, or the game in question if it's a game that's crashing.I am using the latest drivers from ASUS sites with no good results. There are TONS of problems for this card listed on ASUS site:http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=Xonar+HDAV1.3+Slim&board_id=21Stay away, far away from this card and any other ASUS sound cards until they fix their driver issues.

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Do your home work first before you buy.