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RME cards - workaround or not?

Hi. Me again.
Don't want to clutter the Asylum, but I need to know briefly:

Is the RME cards' workaround still mandatory?

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cics:
An issue with RME soundcards
A workround is needed when using the latest RME soundcards with cMP and there is no sound output even though setup seems correct. They require firmware initialisation which is done with configuration routines launched by Windows Explorer. cMP disables this.

Switch cMP to XP mode and restart the system to initialise the RME firmware;
Play a CD using Foobar2000 to check that the soundcard is working;
Start cMP, switch to cMP mode and restart – do not shut down as power to the soundcard will be lost and the firmware will need to be re-initialised;
The system can be re-started as often as necessary but this cycle must be repeated if it is powered down.
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Well, that's ridiculous to a certain extent! I don't want to fiddle around that way with a soundcard like that. So the following popped up in my mind:
what if not cMP mode is used but XP mode instead with cMP in XP's autostart folder?
Wouldn't that initialize an RME card on every startup and then start the cMP shell to strangle explorer down again (same result as native cMP mode but with initialisation)?
Were there any side effects on sound performance to be expected?
(I guess if my suggestion were so smart it would have been made by cics already... ;-P )

TX


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