Comments on: 5.1 SURROUND SETUP W/VISTA

By: Carter

Carter — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:43:18 +0000

BTW, I have the SB X-Fi Surround 5.1, hooked up via USB to my laptop. If that makes a difference.

By: Carter

Carter — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:40:53 +0000

When I click 5.1 Surround, it highlights for a second, changes the picture to the 5.1 picture, then reverts back to stereo. It won’t stay on that option.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:49:17 +0000

I have a 2.1 stereo system which plugs into the green L+R jack on the pc. I have recently acquired a new center speaker. The center speaker connects to the sub via +ve & -ve wires (as do the L & R) and then there is a connection for the center going from the sub to the orange center on the pc. I have connected everything but the center produces no sound – the windows vista speaker set up only has stero, quadraphonic, 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound set ups – how can I get a 3.1 set up to work, there muts be a way!

The speaker system is the Aego M series by acoustic energy!

By: Ingvar

Ingvar — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:49:33 +0000

Came accross this message:

On Window Vista, Microsoft removed the ‘Hardware Abstraction Layer’ which
means that DirectSound3D can no longer be hardware accelerated by a
soundcard. This means that the OpenAL device ‘Generic Hardware’ which uses
DirectSound3D Hardware Buffers no longer functions on Vista.

This means that if you don’t have a soundcard with a ‘native’ AL Device
then you won’t get multi-speaker output on Windows Vista

By: Ingvar

Ingvar — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:28:27 +0000

I successfully go through all these steps and find wma or wmv files working fine, yet other sound samples (like wav files with 5-6 channels) don’t work on the rear speakers.