5.1 surround sound help

mustangman16 said:

I've recently found out that my sound card application (creative audigy) is not compatable with win7 and have yet to find any creative programs that work with my computer. Is there a way around this to still be able to play music on 5.1 surround sound? Like a generic application to play music in 5.1? Or am i just being dumb?

hi there, try downloading this driver+software

SB Audigy Series Support Pack 2.0 (04/17/2009) - Sound Blaster - Creative Labs

Zaim welcome to the forums.

Guess you missed the sixth post in this thread where I wrote,

stormy13 said:

First of all you XPS M1530 never had a Creative sound card in it, so installing anything from Creative is a waste of time. What it has is the Sigamtel onboard audio, and what you are trying to get to work is the Audigy (or even possibly X-Fi) MB software. What this is is a software package that Dell and a few others bought/licensed from Creative so that the onboard sound can use some of the audigy or X-Fi software, it in no way means that you can install the Creative drivers or any of the software directly.

Unfortunately your suggestion just won't work.

stormy13 said:

Zaim welcome to the forums.

Guess you missed the sixth post in this thread where I wrote,



Unfortunately your suggestion just won't work.

ah lol didnt see that. thanks for pointing that out

Mine looks like an express card. It looks like there are screws right under my express card so i could investigate into taking it out and replacing it. Thanks a lot storm! Do you have any suggestions on an express card with 3 holes instead of the one you linked with only 2?

Unfortunately that is the only one I know of, that and laptops aren't really my strong suit. Hopefully someone else on here will have a recommendation for you. Meanwhile while waiting it might be worth having a look around over here,

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and see what others are using and/or recommend.

Ya i've been looking things up and since i plan on buying a new computer when win7 comes out i might buy the usb one for convienance and its cheaper. Thanks a lot for all the help stormy. +1

-stang

Hi,I have a C-Media cm6501 sound card in my Asus M2N-E SLI motherboard and I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate (x86),I managed to configure everything to get the 5.1 system working,but the player,with or without codecs,does not play in 5.1,it just uses the two front speakers.I tested the speakers in the driver program and in windows in control panel,sound and it works fine but it stops there.I tried Winamp,Media player 11,Media player classic and 3 types of codecs and it's the same result,what can I do to make my 5.1 surround system work? I had Windows Media center edition(SP2) before and it worked fine.I also tried vista and I had the same problems I'm having with Windows 7.