Recent content by Willyallthewei

how do you turn off hardware accelerated sound? is the computer trying to do that? i'm not getting a 5.1 signal sent over SPDIF and i think the games might be trying to use the hardware acceleration. Also you have an Audigy, do you have alchemy? IT could be my realtek drivers, i do not know...

Yes, as far as i can tell, and my receiver is getting 2channel linear PCM 96khz from the spdif out. When i play movies, I can get DD 5.1, its passed through and I see the receivers front panel light up with all 5 speakers and the Dolby Digital label. But for games its stays as just the 2...

I have Windows Vista 32bit and onboard sound - Realtek ALC883 and just cannot get any game to output surround sound, from older games like Half life 2 to newer games like Bioshock to the newest in Crysis, Call of Duty 4, Unreal Tournament 3. NONE have surround. My audio receiver outputs...