Dream System Soundcard does not ship with Windows 7 drivers ?!?

[ChewieFL2003]

ASUS Xonar Essence STX Virtual 7.1

I thought I ordered the wrong one from amazon. But no.
Follow the link from the HW Leaderboard page to newegg, look at specs.... (I didnt think it would be necessary to check first, I thought what the heck, its reccomended for the dream system....)

So now I am downloading from ASUS website, and hoping everything works out ok.

Id like to know if pcper is aware they are reccomending a $170 soundcard, that does not ship with Windows 7 drivers. Windows 7 is not even listed as supported.

**didnt mean it to sound so snide, leaving post as is for honesty sake. It is actually a question. Maybe the problem is what I was expecting (something "new" and win 7, not 2009 and a download)
*** for the record it seems to be working fine, far in excess of what I need for games, and that makes me happy. But it sure gave me a scare when I went to install it!

Chewie

[molestedbyasus]

Interesting, I had no idea that was the case. I can understand why you would be a little worried about that but I had seen reviewers use Win7 when reviewing it and never gave it a second thought. Maybe it is time to find something different to offer on the High End Leaderboard system.

Glad it worked out and thanks for reading.
Jeremy

[molestedbyasus]

It does now, thanks to ASUS. That's not all that changed either.

[hoxlund]

Curious as to why you would put the cd into your computer and install drivers that way in the first place?