DMX 6Fire 24/96

I have been having trouble trying to find out if Terratec is going to release drivers which are suitable for use in Windows 7 with my DMX6Fire24/96 soundcard. I know it is not compatible now after using the Microsoft Windows 7 utility program which enables you to see what hardware/software will work in Win7. The soundcard has never been a problem but I would like to move from XP to Win7 if possible. For such a lovely soundcard I would like to continue its use. Anyone have any ideas?
Cheers

I had the same card, but abandoned it when I upgraded to a new computer and win 7. The 6fire was a good card 7 years back, but the converters are not comprable to anything around nowdays. IMO even the creative lab cards converters are better than the Terratec now. I know this is not what you want to hear, but moving on to a new card is my advice.

Thanks for the advice guys.

Just got this email from Terratec:

Hello Vic,

I'm sorry to tell you, that the DMX 6Fire 24/96 is 'EndOfLife', this means
unfortunately that there will be no other drivers anymore....

Sorry !


With best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen

Christoph Wilms

TerraTec Electronic GmbH
Herrenpfad 38
D 41334 Nettetal

Tech. Hotline: +49 (0)2157/817914

This means we'll all have to get new soundcards for Win7.

hi Brian
I installed these drivers on my XP system with no problem. I have been useing the 5.40 drivers for over a year until I saw these thanks to an earlier post. They are for use with Vista if you are interested. They are version 5.53
cheers
Tané
 
http://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/DMX6fire2496/Update/Beta/

Yeah V. i am using them with XP Pro with no problems whatsoever.

Cool, thanks for that!  

RE: Windows 7 and Terratec DMX 6 Fire 24/96

I've been very happy with my DMX on XP and shifting to W7 was a leap of faith. My PC is fairly old (Intel 875 PBZ mobo, P4 Northwood 3.4) and contains all my music library on 2 HDD's, so I took the plunge with a fair amount of anxiety.

I can confirm that the Vista driver v5.53.3.144 from http://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/DMX6fire2496/Update/ works on W7.
I'm not using Windows Media Player on W7 but MediaMonkey v3.2, with the Asio output dll v0.67 SSE2. On the control panel of the DMX6 24/96, Asio/Gsif is activated in 24 bit (standard buffer). Other settings: Digital Out= Mix, Buffer 10 msec.

Sound settings in W7: after a lot of struggle (clicks, pops, cuts, white noise, more micro clicks, no sound, etc) the settings below work fine for me (although some fine-tuning is likely to further enhance the sound):

(1) Playback Devices in W7
a) Speakers>DMX6 Fire 24/96= Default Device
Properties>Advanced>Default Shared Mode= 24 bit-48K
Exclusive Mode: 'Allow Applications...' & 'Give Exclusive...' are on.
b) Spdif Interface>Properties> Supported Formats= All boxes checked. Default Shared Mode= 2ch, 16bit-44.1

(2) Recording Devices
Spdif Interface= DMX 6Fire 24/96= Default Device

Just testing with my PC 2.1 speakers (Altec FX 6021) the overall sound quality is clearly above XP: expanded soundfield, space & depth, details, warmer nuances. Using the DMX front panel Spdif output to an external DAC for listening to the main audio system brings a even fuller envelope. The DMX6 still offers a more than decent performance on W7 and is a good choice on a secondary PC so I won't discard it.

Hello Vicsant,

My post yesterday was claiming victory too soon. All was fine as described. But this morning, I had cuts in the sound using the Spdif ouput (sound on PC speakers was fine) so I uninstalled the Vista DMX driver. And now, I am unable to re-install it, it won't be recognized in the Devide Manager. Quite agonizing, and all the more frustrating given the brief taste of heaven I experienced yesterday and now ending up with nothing! I guess I will have to reinstall Seven from a clean slate.

Happy to report that all is well again, both on PC speakers & Spdif output. I found the main culprit was actually the Asio output dll in Media Monkey, causing clicks. On XP-SP3, the Asio output was real clean. Go figure. Switching back to the Wave output solved that. Great sound again. Other settings are unchanged.

So there's still a life for the DMX with W7. Finding a replacement in PCI isn't that easy, unless the budget for a Lynx AES is available.

P.S.
Of course, if you want to record from other devices, using the line in or microphone or whatever, you just set that as default, uncheck exclusivity options, listen through DMX speakers again and select the input quality (usually 16 bit, 44100).
:-)

I had some crazy problems with the dmx6fire in vista.  It would work fine for a while.  I would leave the computer and come back an hour later to no sound.  Sound could always be restored by disabling and then re-enableing the device, so I put a batch file to do that on my desktop.  Anyway, when the W7 compatibility checker said it wouldn't work with W7, I decided it was time to move on.  However, I would love to use the card in my older computer which I plan to upgrade to W7, so it's nice to know that it can be made to work.  It exactly met my needs for several years.

I didn't even know there was a 5.54 driver. where did you find it?

Hi there! I'm also trying to run a dmx 6fire under windows 7. It works quite well, but wenn i try to change my asio settings int the "asio control panel" i get a bluescreen. prompt is something about the dmx6fire.sys not working well, but i cant really read it because the system shuts down after a few seconds.
after rebooting i get these problem details:

  BCCode:    3b
  BCP1:    00000000C0000005
  BCP2:    FFFFF88007101502
  BCP3:    FFFFF88006783F70
  BCP4:    0000000000000000
  OS Version:    6_1_7600
  Service Pack:    0_0
  Product:    256_1

(don't know if that helps anyway)

my system konfiguration is:
intel i core 5          CPU
asus p7p55d        motherboard
OCZ 4gB DDR3 1333 RAM
Windows 7 64 bit

thank you for your help!

yeah. seems so.
uah. im using my onboard-card right now.
I could use the dmx 6fire like this, but it would be great if i could change the asio settings, especially the buffer size to reduce the input latency. (sometimes i'm recording) I already tried to access the configuration via "ASIO4ALL" but it was no good.