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just downloaded the newest realtek drivers and installed and it's exactly the same thing as all the previous versions. nothing changed. still struggling with that 5.1 system of mine =/
its really weird that when i test it in the realtek sound manager, it works perfectly. but it doesn't work in any other application. only when i click the speaker fill option but that's not what I want, i want real sound out of my other 3 speakers, not just some noise.
and even when i test the speakers in windows :
it works great there.
and in realtek, the same thing, works perfectly:
only when i highlight the speaker fill option, then some sound comes out of the remaining 3 speakers, but that's not really what i'm looking for. in windows xp, it was normal sound.
and when i plug in the cable, i get something like this:
when i click the tool symbol, it just opens the realtek sound manager.
i remember back in xp, it would open a totally new window that asks you what you just connected so you can choose, and after that, it worked perfectly.
I have set the same settings, of course that didn't solve my problem.
On XP, even now, I still use SRS Audio Sandbox, probably one of the most powerful drivers, to alter Surround Sound, Stereo sound, Quadraphonic - etc. by adjusting sliders. I can choose the stereo 'size', the center 'location', to enhance my sound experience, and the sliders for Surround work perfectly fine on windows XP with the exact same driver setup - no matter what sound device was actually connected, may it be stereo speakers or headphones in the front jack. However.
On Windows 7, I used your settings (though I already had them like that) and used the preview option to preview the sound. (pre'hear'). But I only get sound from the front speakers. For me, this is a general problem, it's not just a difference between driver testing and actual use by sound applications, even the test returns negative results for me.
Since apparently this works, I can not confirm this, it means that somewhere in the updated code from above, a solution may lie for realtek. Is the plugin open source? And if so, maybe it can be used by realtek, or just hackers for all we care, to update the driver software from realtek either officially or manually to fully support surround, even when using headphones and such?
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