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Hercules Game Theater XP Problems

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fataIerror

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I have a HGTXP sound card and I'm connecting in a pair of Klipsch 4.1 Promedia speakers. Here's the situation.....


I only get sound out of one of the two channels, so I can either get front sound or rear sound. If I switch the jacks on the back of the HGTXP box the opposite speakers work. I called Hercules and they sent me a brand new GTXP. I hooked up both the new card and the new box and still only the two sattelites work. I'm using the newest Windows 2k Pro drivers from Hercules website.

The rest of my system is....
1.4ghz Athlon T-bird
EPoX 8K7A motherboard
512mb Crucial PC2100 DDR
Hercules Prophet II GeForce2 Pro video card.

Any ideas? I'm at a loss here and I don't know what else it could possibly be.

 
Go to the Windows Control Panel, Multimedia Properties or Sound Properties, and select a 4-speaker setup. Do the same in the Game Theater's configuration utility.
 
Already tried it under 98 SE, I upgraded to 2000 recently. Same problems with Windows 98, just different drivers now.
 
Try this.

Go to control panel.

Open up Sounds & Multimedia.

Click the Audio Tab.

Click the advanced button.

Click the Performance Tab.

Push the hardware acceleration to full (for some reason it is set lower by default on win2k).

Hope that helps.
 
datalink7, are you sure it's not the "Sound Quality" or "Sample Rate conversion" that's not set to the maximum?..
 


<< datalink7, are you sure it's not the &quot;Sound Quality&quot; or &quot;Sample Rate conversion&quot; that's not set to the maximum?.. >>



Yes I am sure about the Hardware Acceleration bar. Check it out in your control panel. But you are right, I did forget to mention &quot;Sample Rate Conversion Quaility.&quot; That should be pushed to the max as well.
 
Well I have the BA4800 and had the same problem.

First, be sure to get that latest drivers from Herc.

What you need to do is goto the Hercules Audio program that came with the drivers. For speakers, have it set up 4 speakers and then select rotate speakers in that test program on the main tab. Then close the program and lauch an audio program, that should do it.


I hope that this helps you

Take Care
~Utterman
 
YES, YES. Listen to Utterman. I have the ProMedia 4.1s (2 sets) and I have to do the same thing. You use the Hercules &quot;control panel&quot; and select test-->sound rotation-->uncheck sound rotation-->uncheck test-->close the application or leave it open. You will now get surround sound from most MP3 players (Winamp included) and surround sound for CD audio through Windows Media Player 7.X+ (with digital playback enabled). THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup, no surround sound if you use a TV tuner, etc. Actually will get surround sound from the nice, bundled PowerDVD 3.0 Pro.

No virtual surround support like on the Santa Cruz (by enabling the virtual 5.1 mode) or full time virtual surround sound as supported by the SB Live! family cards. Sucks, huh?

 
Read the FAQ over at Herc's site. It covers this problem. Personally, crummy 4 speaker support was the main reason why I took my GTXP back.
 
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