Losing 5.1 Stereo Setting on my PC

[rpkesterson]

I have a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS and Logitech X-530 5.1 speakers.
They work fine so long as I remember to go into the control panel and
set my Speaker Environment to 5.1 Speakers.

The problem is, whenever I reboot my PC, I lose the settings. I go
back to the control panel and it says my speaker environment is
Desktop
Speakers. I switch it back to 5.1 and everything is fine until the
next time I turn off my computer.

Any ideas?

 

[watek]

it's a bug with the damn drivers! Get rid of that card and get something with better drivers.

 

[alcoholbob]

Those Windows Speaker settings dont really do anything to be honest, as long as your settings are proper in your Creative Drivers and you have CMSS Stereo on, you should be fine.

 

[PurdueRy]

update your drivers

 

[rpkesterson]

Thanks guys. The drivers were okay. When I added the speakers I changed the Control Panel to 5.1 speakers but I forgot about the Creative Speaker Utility program which was still set at Stereo Speakers. It was also set to sync the Control Panel to its value each time. I change it to 5.1 and it works fine now.

 

[hobbes79]

I had a problem with this and posted this earlier:

Well, I searched around here and a couple of other forums, and I googled this extensively, but I could not find a solution online. So I started messing with it myself. The fault seems to lie in either cthelper.exe or ctsysvol.exe loading at startup... I noticed that the settings would change as soon as they loaded as prcesses. I disabled both of them in msconfig, and the speaker settings no longer reset on reboot!!

You don't lose in functionality... if you want to be able to adjust volume, just reenable the windows volume control. The only creative processes I left running are ctapr/ctmodutl/dllml

I have cmss turned off.


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