I have 5.1 audio, but music is only coming out of 3 speakers.

gorath · June 28th, 2002, 09:54 AM

I have the soundblaster audigy, and Creative Inspire 5300 speakers, but when I play music it only comes from two sattelites and the subwoofer. Why aren't I getting 5.1 sound?

newbie~wan · June 28th, 2002, 10:12 AM

What OS are you running? Depending on what OS, you will have a different place to go to change the setting. I have 4 speakers and a woofer and they all play fine in win2k, but I had to do some manual changes in winXP. It was really easy though.

gorath · June 28th, 2002, 10:23 AM

I have winXP. I've been looking around, but I can't figure out how to fix it.

newbie~wan · June 28th, 2002, 10:33 AM

I think you go to the control panel and if you have it in new mode, not classic style, the catagory that you should pick will be fairly obvious. Once in that catagory, there will be a setting somewhere where you can pick quadraphonic (sp?) sound. That should do ya.

I know that description is a little vague, but I haven't used XP in a while (my box is down).

gorath · June 28th, 2002, 10:46 AM

Hmmm...I tried that, but it didn't work for me. No change.

My device manager says my driver is "Creative Audigy Audio Processor". That sounds right, doesn't it?

Any other ideas?

gorath · June 28th, 2002, 11:21 AM

I found a more up to date driver on the Creative Labs site, but I'm still not getting 5.1 audio. Music off of a compact disc should be coming out of all the speakers, shouldn't it?

Gutter Ball · June 28th, 2002, 12:04 PM

I have the same problem in Win2K. My Soundblaster Live (not quite the same card, I know) will not play out of all 5 speakers, only the front 2 and the woofer. Seems like a Win2K/XP problem. When I did a dirty install and just installed Win2K over Win98, all my speakers worked...when I formatted and reinstalled, now only 3 of my speakers worked :/ I've tried various unsupported drivers, setting the 4 speaker thing up, it just doesn't want to work.

gorath · June 28th, 2002, 02:32 PM

There must be a solution.

poopeyhed2 · June 28th, 2002, 03:10 PM

sorry for double post, accidentally hit submit, check out the second post, more info..

poopeyhed2 · June 28th, 2002, 03:15 PM

I have the ATP5 and the Game Theather XP both of which are not the same. I had the same problem you are speaking of, but I downloaded the newest drivers and that fixed it. Take newbie~wan's advice, but I find it easier if you did this (normal category view):
1. Open Control Panel
2. Click on "Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices
3. Click on "Change the speaker settings"
4. On the first tab, "Volume" go to the bottom where it says "Speaker settings" and on the bottom a button that says "Advanced..."
5. In the pull down, choose 5.1 setup instead of quads.
Also check out the "Audio" tab, and see the "Default device"
By the way, does your mobo have on board audio? because that conflicted with my sound system in 98.