Center Speaker problem

[TWills]

I have the Logitech Z-5300e 5.1 speaker system running on the DFI-SLIDR onboard sound chip (nforce 4 audio 😛 ). My problem is, my front center doesn't work in most instances. It won't play sound in windows media player, and several other games. It does work in half-life 2, but not in Far Cry. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm running the 6.14.0457.0000 driver for nforce 4 audio (according to dxdiag)

 

[Lonyo]

Most games/media players/etc are upsampled from 2.0/2.1 to 5.1 by possibly the audio card driver.
Often they go from stereo (2 ch) to basically repeating the L and R sounds in both F and R speaker, and there'sno use for the middle speaker.
FC and HL2 are probably set to 5.1 output, so obviously they are outputting 5.1 and not being re-done by the driver.

 

[eXx08]

I had this problem. Turns out I plugged the actual plug into the wrong spot on my sound card. It was hooked into the speaker spot. Chack to make sure yours are in the right spot.

 

[TWills]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Most games/media players/etc are upsampled from 2.0/2.1 to 5.1 by possibly the audio card driver.
Often they go from stereo (2 ch) to basically repeating the L and R sounds in both F and R speaker, and there'sno use for the middle speaker.
FC and HL2 are probably set to 5.1 output, so obviously they are outputting 5.1 and not being re-done by the driver.

My system features a "matrix" mode, which supposedly simulates surround sound from non-surround audio. Enabling this feature will make the middle speaker work, but at the cost of quality from the two rear speakers.