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SOFTWARE SUMMARY
About the OPTIMOD-PC Driver and Service
The OPTIMOD-PC driver version number is available through
Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager >
Sound, Video, and Game Controllers > Orban Optimod 1100
The OPTIMOD-PC driver is responsible for low-level communication between the
OPTIMOD-PC card and your computer's operating system. When the driver starts up,
it checks a flag on each OPTIMOD-PC card to determine if it needs to reload DSP
code into the card.
It does not reload DSP code or parameters when Windows reboots nor-
mally, as it might after a security update, for example.
When the computer first powers up and Windows starts, the driver temporarily
loads a general-purpose preset that enables the card to pass audio. It also reloads
the system parameters, like input and output levels, which it reads from the com-
puter's Registry. As soon as the OPTIMOD-PC service finishes starting up, the service
ORBAN MODEL1101
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