Speakers/soundcard not working properly?

[Andvari]

(See my speaker/soundcard in my sig) I just noticed that my speakers aren't producing sound from the center and the surrounds. They used to, I'm not sure why they don't now. I never really use much 5.1 stuff, so I didn't notice when they quit working. I don't think it's a hardware problem, but I just downloaded the latest Creative drivers for my soundcard and still no luck.

The way I remember FOR CERTAIN that they worked, was when I used to have all the Creative software on that clutters up your computer but lets you use all these stupid features heh. Ever since uninstalling that, I thought they still worked... but they certainly don't right now.

Any ideas?

 

[montag451]

try cluttering up your desktop again with the software and see if that magix the sound back.

 

[Andvari]

Well, after installing that again, I'm able to use the diagnotisc thing and send a test tone to each channel. A-OK, sound comes from every one like I thought it would. There also seems to be a noticable difference in Worlf of Warcraft. However, with foobar playing mp3's, it's still just stereo. But maybe it's supposed to be just stereo. Am I not supposed to have surround while listening to mp3s?