I have A Creative Inspire 5.1 hooked up to my Realtek sound on board via S/dif digital optical, have tried latest drivers, tried different settings, only 2 spekers work.
SOME Integrated Audio systems have a digital output but that output is only two channel stereo. As that is all you are getting it may be your sound is 5.1 surround in analog but not digital.
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Windows 10 64 bit
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Intel i7 6700K
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ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero
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Intel CPU Graphics
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RealTek
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27" Dell S2719dgf
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Creative CD does come with a testing software to check whether the speakers are properly setup. Have you tried it? If that software is not available with you, I believe you can download it from creative.
Also had this problem, heres how I fixed it...
Driver used (SB24_VTDRV_LB_1_04_0090.exe) available from creative.
Install and when done go to Control panel, Manage audio devices.. This should display a sound window with devices listed, select SB live and in bottom left corner click configure. Should be pretty much self explanatory after that.
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