Delta drivers must have been made by ammatures!

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i mean what the hell? My friend got a delta 66 a while ago, i went over to install it, and the drivers are so terrible the we can't even install them! The stupid drivers don't even have an installer! There is NO installer, no autorun on the cd, no nothing. So you have to go into the windows control panel, add hardware, and then mess with that for a really long time until you finaly manage to get to a point where you can tell it where to look for the drivers. Then you show it the disk, and things start to look up cause it shows all of the different cards, i installed the delta 66, and it didn't work! On Win Xp mind you. I mean jesus couldn't these fools have made some drivers that you know, have installers?
 
They haven't quite worked it out for XP yet.

Hang on. They will. They will.
 
So what you're saying is that you can't use the Delta 66 with winxp?
What the hell? Why does it come with Win Xp drivers then? And that has nothing to do with the fact that the idiots at maudio didn't even make a damn installer for their drivers, making it extremly difficult to install them, if not impossible (in the case of win xp).

Well maybe i'll be avoiding M audio in the future then. I was told they worked with win xp a long time ago.
 
M Audio certainly has XP drivers for the Delta cards. If you didn't even know that, it's highly possible the reason it doesn't work is that you installed the wrong drivers.

If you find it "extremely difficult" to install the Delta drivers without a hand-holding installer, I suspect that you will have lots of problems in general using a computer as a recording device (or anything else for that matter).
 
i mean what the hell? My friend got a delta 66 a while ago, i went over to install it, and the drivers are so terrible the we can't even install them! The stupid drivers don't even have an installer! There is NO installer, no autorun on the cd, no nothing. So you have to go into the windows control panel, add hardware, and then mess with that for a really long time until you finaly manage to get to a point where you can tell it where to look for the drivers. Then you show it the disk, and things start to look up cause it shows all of the different cards, i installed the delta 66, and it didn't work! On Win Xp mind you. I mean jesus couldn't these fools have made some drivers that you know, have installers?
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They haven't quite worked it out for XP yet.

Hang on. They will. They will.
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So what you're saying is that you can't use the Delta 66 with winxp?
What the hell? Why does it come with Win Xp drivers then? And that has nothing to do with the fact that the idiots at maudio didn't even make a damn installer for their drivers, making it extremly difficult to install them, if not impossible (in the case of win xp).

Well maybe i'll be avoiding M audio in the future then. I was told they worked with win xp a long time ago.
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Ever heard the term RTFM?

If you guys aren't skilled enough to open the simple .txt file that comes with the drivers and explains the process in detail, I suggest you stop using the PC all together and return to the 8-track...




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Delta drivers

If you didnt already noticed, you will, my english sux.

MAudio drivers developpers dont do good jobs. Well they werent a year ago. I dont know how they are right now but, I had sooooooo much problems with my Delta1010... And I'm not a new PC user.

If some of you have problem with their Delta's, such as pops, clicks, glitches...well any problem, I suggest to check this forum

http://pub136.ezboard.com/bdelta1010forum

I found a lot of awnsers there. AND I finally sold my 1010.

When I was using the Delta1010, I had I Gigabyte motherboard, and at that time they were built with VIA chipsets (north and south bridge also). The ONLY way I could get some clean audio with this setup was Win2k installed as "Standard PC" instead of "ACPI" and stick to DirectX 7. Maudio customers were simply drivers beta testers...anyway, this could be a very long story.

If some of you have some questions about Delta crackle, pops,etc. just ask me, we never know I may have an awnser!

And if Maudio as now developped good drivers and there is no more problems, well forget about this reply! :)

Maudio is still a good company for me..I recently bought the Oxygen controller and I love it :)
 
took me 20 minutes to take my 1010LT out of the box, glaze over the manual, put it in my puter, hardware install fires automaticlly, tell it where the drivers are located, and i was off and running- no problems then or since... on windows xp-P3 933. At my guitarists house i installed a 2496- same story on win 98 AMD Ath 1600+- cake. I'm 100% satisified- maybe its not the drivers... just a though

-jeff

p.s. error message: xxx0xx- ID: 10t - fatal exception ;)
 
Thats odd ! Ive never had problems with M-audio XP drivers.
Try this, dont use the disc. Download the latest drivers from their website onto a floppy and then when you are prompted for the drivers you know they are on the floppy with nothing else to interfere.
 
Alchuck
i have been using a computer for recording for years and i am extremely profiicent with computers. I said i found the XP drivers and installed them. They simlpy did not work. And there is no installer on the disk so it was difficult. I installed them with little troubles (would be difficult if you didn't know a lot about computers), but they don't work.

Also there was no txt file that came with them, i looked for that at the very beggingin.

i read the manual and i installed the XP drivers. they DID NOT WORK.

I guess that is my main problem. the fact the disc is incredibly poorly laid out, and it's the first time i've ever seen drivers that did not have installers. It just seems rediculously stupid.
 
I will try the floppy thing

And as i said at first, i was installing it on a friends computer and i only had a few minutes. The fact that the drivers did not work pissed me off immensly. I will try the newest ones from the website though.

Thanks.
 
ambi said:
I will try the floppy thing

And as i said at first, i was installing it on a friends computer and i only had a few minutes. The fact that the drivers did not work pissed me off immensly. I will try the newest ones from the website though.

Thanks.
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Good luck.....I dont foresee any problems with this method.
And a note: the drivers are not digitally signed so ignore the prompt when XP tells you that. My guess is your already aware of that. You can also just update the existing driver thru device manager.
 
Yes i was aware, i hate windows :)

Ok i'll give that a shot next time i can get to his place. Thanks for the help!
 
Ok so he did install the new and it won't detect his card at all. Any ideas?
 
Have him uninstall the card thru device manager by removing the device...not physically but thru the device manager. Reboot and let windows find the new hardware again. If that doesn't do it then there is something seriously screwed.
 
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Have him uninstall the card thru device manager by removing the device...not physically but thru the device manager. Reboot and let windows find the new hardware again. If that doesn't do it then there is something seriously screwed.
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Actually m-audio recommends using their own uninstaller. Ambi, you can download it if it is not on the disk.
 
Windows never detected it.
That's the problem windows won't detect it.

Can't uninstall it because it doesn't know about it, which also made it harder to install drivers, hence some of my issues.

I didn't phyiscally put the card in the system it was already in when i got there. I gues taking it out/putting it back in hopefully would allow XP to locate it.
 
maybe instead of stupid, you could term it as *NOT USER FRIENDLY*

I found that out when I went to install mine. If they were really up on their stuff, they would realize making things user friendly might help to keep their customers down the road ;). They seem to have this idea that their stuff is absolutely supreme, and thus do everything differently, in some cases making things a pain in the ass.

Yes, they should make a regular installer like everything else.
Yes, they should stick the m-audio control panels, with the other audio control panels, instead of being almighty in the control panel.

One thing is for sure, the drivers on the cd's are crap. Even the website for the drivers isn't the most userfriendly thing. One thing I absolutely hate above else, is wading thru tons of crap to get exactly what I need.

Being userfriendly isn't that hard of a thing to do ;). I also have heard nasty experiences when dealing with customer service...BTW, have they ever fixed that latency issue whilst using two soundcards at the same time??? (I don't think I'll be running two of their cards at once ever, cause of this)

Oh yea, there is XP drivers for sure, lol either that or my computer made em up.

After I have said all of this, I would still buy their stuff in the future, cause it is good stuff.
 
You have to dld their uninstaller...it comes with an actual text file if I remember properly. Follow those instructions, it should work.

I know that the last machine I had, had issues uninstalling things if I took the card out first. So uninsall it first (following those directions they give you), then remove it. Then put it all back together.

But yes, make sure check out that text file, as I recall, I thought I had to do some not so normal things to uninstall, then reinstall.
 
hah... you should try installing MOTU drivers ;)


Delta drivers are among the best out there. That's not saying much, because the state of sound card drivers on the whole is pretty dismal, but every company's getting better about it.

Seriously though, the compatibility and driver quality of the Delta seems to be second only to RME's stuff. If you're having problems, I would first look elsewhere than the drivers. Installing drivers manually is not THAT difficult... come on. If it is the drivers causing the problems, that's reasonably rare (though certainly not unheard of) and I'm pretty sure it should be fixable by moving around PCI cards/reformmating/playing with BIOS settings.


good luck.
 
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