Audigy + 5.1 speakers

[Sephiroth]

ok.. with my Audigy 1 card and 5.1 speakers, they aren't working right, I'm not sure if it's creative's drivers or not, here goes

If I set it to 5.1 speakers, I get sound out of the front left, front right, and center speakers, and the sub, and the rear speakers don't work, and if I put it to 4.1, the front, rear, and sub work, but not center, I've triple checked my connections and I know they're right, checked the speakers themselves too, if I plug the rear speakers into the front inputs and the front in the rear, then in 5.1 mode i get sound from the rear, but not the front

i've tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything creative, but it actually made it worse (go figure, i hate creative sometimes.....), other than a reformat, which I think I need, any other ideas?

[DoG]

Ummmm, did you alter the speaker type in the CP? I know i have to alter both my soundcard speaker type and the default windows speaker type befor mine work correctly. Sometimes 1 window just won't talk to another :P

[Sephiroth]

yep, i checked that too, didn't help, pos, i'll probably reinstall this weekend if i have time, it's been a month and a half, it needs to be reinstalled by now

did you try searching google groups on the issue?

[MaxPayne]

I had this problem once. I thought I had put the three cables to the audigy in the right order but I hadn't. My card has gold plated inputs with no color coding. Try switching the plugs around when someone is listening. And also check the front/rear fader ofcourse

A great resource is news://news.creative.com/

It doesn't matter if you use the creative mixer or the speaker setup in control panel, they do the same and should be set to 5.1 if that's what you want.

[Big POPPA Pump]

Get rid of the stupid Creative drivers. They are nothing but crappy products from a similar company. Download and Install kX Project drivers for the audigy. You can download them at

hxxp://kxproject.spb.ru/index.php?skip=1

I have been using these drivers for the past few months and I am never going back to the shitty creative drivers again.

[Sephiroth]

I've tried those before BPP, and may go back to them if I can't figure out a solution to this

I at least figured out what the problem is... why it's doing it I don't know, in the creative driver set i'm using you have to enable CMSS3D, else you won't get any sound from the rear speakers in 5.1 mode, but, for some reason, whenever I have any EAX effect enabled, CMSS3D doesn't work.... go figure

[James55]

I just bought an audigy 2 and Ill pay attention to these posts when I install