
HL2 works nice but i placed my rear surroudn in a bad spot.It is also the time required for an EM field to propagate 299,792,458 (2.99792458 x 10 8 ) meters through a vacuum. In games, so far the only one that doesnt seem to utilize 5.1 surround is NFS:MW. u only notice how they work when u watch surround sound movies. The fright, fleft speakers are not as loud as my rright and rleft speakers. i put it in the black one instead (and the black one went to the orange. only little thing i did was instead of putting the orange line to the orange slot in my motherbaord. I have the Inspire T5400 running on Realtek AC'97 Onboard and games run fine with surround sound. So what kinda motherboard do u have? and if ur already bought a soundcard (and cannot return it) what soundcard model is it? u said it has an nvidia audio driver? ok. so im assuming u have an atleast 8channel onboard sound. U said u have a high end computer system. What do I do?! >.<Īny help would be very much appreciated. I'm an artist, writer and gamer on computers. They tell me to get some obscure Realtek sound system, which I cannot acquire due to dead links and the near impossibility of finding it without knowing what the hell it is. Some people have told me I need a soundcard, some have told me I need a different sound driver, that NvMixer is useless. I can't get help anywhere that isn't a direct and equally useless contradiction of the last rubbish I've been told, and I'm tired of getting no value out of what I've purchased. In general, the central speaker does not work, and I don't believe the rear speakers have -ever- functioned in a game, despite months of half-hearted tweaking.

Through intense fiddling, I managed to get a few more random speakers working, and through use of the NvMixer software I managed to clone the channels or somesuch and get atleast my Winamp-played mp3s to function on all speakers.īut in games, the core purpose of my PC, I remain with tinny, dead sound from my fleft and fright speakers, the central speaker occasionally makes quiet sound, and the subwoofer is fine. Since then, numerous sources have contradicted each other telling me I need a soundcard or do not. To save money, I went without a soundcard on the word of a friend, who told me the onboard Nforce sound on the motherboard would handle a 5.1 speaker setup just fine. It's a high spec computer, fully capable of running such a setup, but the information and help i've recieved has been contradictive and useless to put it in the most polite way I can. In short, I bought a set of creative Inspire 5.1 speakers along with my new PC back in august, and since then I've simply been unable to make most of them work.
