Sorry, I’ve lost the overview, indeed, Philip mentioned that he had ASIO4All.
Interesting that that one also doesn’t work, because many people report ASIO4All to be better than Steinberg’s Generic Low Latency Driver. We are fine with that, since we don’t claim to provide the best generic driver. Quite to the contrary, we see it only as a crutch. It’s just so that we can give people something in the hand to get audio out of their built-in sound chips. For any serious audio user we recommend to use a decent external audio interface with a dedicated ASIO driver. It doesn’t need to be a multi hundred dollar interface, really good gear starts already just below the 100$ mark.
A well written ASIO driver is the key for good audio performance, as it not only shuffles the audio out via the device, but it also drives the audio application by regularly making callbacks to fetch the audio. If the driver is sluggish with the regularity of callbacks, then the audio application is also not able to deliver on time, thus crackling and drop outs may occur or poor overall performance.
A generic driver can never be as good as a dedicated driver for a particular hardware.
Having just said all this, I still don’t see a reason why Philip’s Connexant shouldn’t work with ASIO4All or the GLLD. It must be something specific to just his system.