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| Anybody can help me get 5.1 sound with vista? I have a sound blaster live 5.1 installed, and I have sound, but only from the green jack. I need windows so see that I use the orange and black ones too. How do I do that? Thanks.
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| W/ 5.1 Sound nothing will come out the orange/black ones which I am assuming are your 5.1 channels. Everything in vista will be in 2.1 unless you are playing a game or movie which supports 5.1. Vista's default drivers may or may not support 5.1. Only way to find out is pop a movie in or a 5.1 game. If they don't you can try installing the latest sound blaser drivers for vista...check out http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/7651/
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| Hi, I just installed the normal Win 2k/XP Creative drivers for Sound Blaster Live! lastest Driver sets! The trick is by just starting the Setup file, the whole driver set will be extracted to a Temp directory in your Home Directory, just let it run until completed. Then you will get an Error from windows!
Just open up the Device Manager, Control Panel->System->Device Manager Select the Device you need the drivers to be installed, and Say Update Driver and Install the Driver yourself! The drivers are located in this Temp directory...you 'll find in another Sub directory something CRF*** a Audio directory. There are the drivers to install.
C:\Users\latz\AppData\Local\Temp\
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| Good Find! This is getting Pinned. BTW welcome to the site.
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| | What a coincidence. I have the exact same sound card and was going to post the exact same question, except I have the exception of no sound at the moment. I will try that first suggestion and last suggestion by kobalt and post back results.
Running Vista on [P4 2.8][512 Ram][GeForce4 Ti4600,no damn Nvidia support][Soundblaster live 5.1, no damn Creative Support][BenqFP71G Monitor, no damn BenQ support].....Hope this forum helps me get support |
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| | Just a slightly different method. I downloaded XP drivers and ran the program with XP compatibility mode... it refused to install when the compatibility mode was off - and ran and auto installed the drivers when XP compatability was set to on.... Hope this helps... |
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| I'm also having trouble with 5.1 sound in Vista Ultimate 32-bit.
Have a Turtle Beach Montego DDL sound card. At first, Vista said no sound device installed, but then updated the drivers automatically to some C-Media drivers (card has a 8768+ chipset). When I do th device test, from the sound control panel, I get sound for every one of the speakers on the diagram -- full 7.1 sound. I can even hear the sound out the center and rear channels. But this only happens during the sound testing.
When I switch over to WMP11 or to WinAMP, I still get all the sound but now, it comes out only through the front two jacks.
I tried installing open source AC'97 drivers and they only provided 2-channel sound. So that was even worse.
Of course, Turtle Beach does not have Vista drivers and they indicate that the XP drivers do NOT work with Vista.
Any suggestions?
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| | go to control panel>hardware and sound>sound>doubble click on speakers>Enhancement tab>Select Speaker Fill Effect> and apply immediate mode. this will force out sound from all speakers with out any problems. But you will only hear the music and singing from your front and centre speaker, and vista has a built in crossover for the subwoofer, all you will hear from the rear speakers is just the music, no voice exept on maybe a few songs, it is what i have done on my 7.1 system. Good Luck
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| I set 5.1 sound, and play only stereo 
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