hehe, i've been talking people out of rme with some success ever since i've had my 96/8 PAD card resting in a drawer because of driver obsolence.
you see, creamware even after bankrupcy managed to write drivers for x64 (for additional money) under name of sonic core and i'm still using scope pci board from late nineties from them.
even digigram - which century their cards come from i don't remember already – they also provide x64 drivers, even for no extra charge.

okay, 96/8 is "very old" but it's also pretty much the only one worth the hype - i've auditioned HDSP series and they sounded slightly worse being more expensive, were cluttered with more unnecessary parts and from then on everything was going downhill. not sure when it stopped being made in germany as well.

nowadays some others make better stuff, and also there is stuff no worse with better prices. and rme can stay in a drawer... as a promising relict of the nineties :}

Hi Daniel! Nice to see same folks from the rme newsgroup times!
Yes, I remember using 2.11 on XP, it worked well. With later win i think the problem was lack of WDM in the driver, so you would only have sound from ASIO and with x64 you'd have nothing at all - there is no driver.
I think I'll make an experiment - put that Digi into MAGMA box and hook it up with some x64 linux pc.
ALSA did support it https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/Matrix:Module-rme9652
i don't know how much it can relate to windows things though.

i can see a socketed 17s40lpc PROM chip on board - can it be that its contents are a show stopper for x64 win driver to be developed? we could probably make a crowdfunding thing for you to look at it and then people could burn new chips with new firmware and keep on using their cards

used to love that neat and minimal Digi UI - all the necessary stuff, no bloat, no BS