Sourround sound help...

[Dwebtron]

I've got 5.1 sourround sound speakers by Logitech and an Audigy 2 ZS sound card from Creative Labs. Both work perfectly fine, except that I can't hear sourround sound. This might be a nubby kinda question, but any ideas? (I've already made sure windows knows I've got 5.1 speakers and all the basic kinda stuff, and yes it's plugged in right, the Creative tests work perfectly fine.)

Basically, it's my games (all of them) and my music and movies that don't work with 5.1.

 

[montag451]

Hi,
Have you got surround enabled in windows?
Look in the
control panel
sounds and audion devices
look under the audio tab.
what have you got?

 

[Dwebtron]

Do you mean Sound Playback? (SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [A000] )
or Sound Recording? (same)
or MIDI Music playback? (SB Audigy 2 ZS Synth A[A000] )

When I click 'advanced' on Sound Playback, the Speaker setup is 5.1 sourround sound speakers.

 

[Dwebtron]

bump...

 

[Aquila76]

How do you have the Audigy connected to the speakers? (Analog/Optical/Coax/Other)
Are your games/movie app set to use surround? (May need to set up as passthrough in DVD player, or Surround option in games that support it)
CD/MP3 are two channel playback anyhow, so you most likely won't hear full surround.

EDIT: Also, how is the Creative surround app set up? (should be 5.1 Speakers in Creative Surround Mixer)

 

[therealnickdanger]

I've got an Audigy 4 Pro, which is similar to yours. Mine is connected to my home theater, but it's somewhat similar.

For starters, I only loaded the Creative driver, none of the other software. I also ensured that my Creative control panel is linked to the Windows control panel, so changes in either will affect the other. My speaker configuration is "5.1 speakers" along with SPDIF passthrough for DD and DTS.

My soundcard is connected to my receiver in two ways, first is an optical cable from the SPDIF output of the external box for watching movies and other AC3-encoded content. The second method is from the three analog ports on the back to the 6-channel analog inputs of my receiver.

All AC3 is sent over SPDIF. All PCM is sent over SPDIF and analog. EAX is sent over analog (and SPDIF, but only 2 channels). If your Creative tests show that you set it up correctly, then that means your games either: don't support surround sound (EAX) or you didn't enable surround sound (EAX) within the game.

As for DVDs, you have to ensure that you are using Internal Decoding for DD and DTS and not passthrough.

 

[Dwebtron]

Thanks for the feedback, although I don't know what some of this stuff is, I'll answer the few questions I've seen.

I have it connected with the 3 jacks comming out of the bass speaker. (bottom)
All of my games are set to 5.1, as is windows / creative software. I'll double check it though, and the jacks in the back. (Maybe I plugged it in wrong ?)



*edit*

dunno how, dunno why, but somehow it's working fine (for mp3's too!) thanks guys!

 

[therealnickdanger]

Aha... so you use ONE cable to go from your SOUNDCARD to your SUBWOOFER, correct? Exactly what speaker system do you have?