Hi, I'm new here and the reason I joined is because of this little issue I have. I dont know if I am posting in the right forum section, I hope I do. So here is my problem:
I have this old DKdigital 5.1 sound system and a maybe 3 year old PC.
Now I connect the Subwoofer with my PC via Optical Cable. The problem here is that I dont really have 5.1 support.
I have a program from C-Media installed with which you can change the volume of every single loudspeaker, change their position virtually and such things. I could change the volume and such of every speaker and test them correctly a while ago with this program. Like when I click on Side Left speaker I only hear the voice say "Left Surround" on the left speaker and not on any others. So that is how it should be. However now since My Subwoofer only has 1 optical slot and I use Optical with my XBOX360 too, I removed the Optical cable from the PC. And now I have put in the optical cable of my PC again.
And here is the real problem:
I dont have full 5.1 support anymore :-/
When I test the speakers it only works correctly for the left front and right front speakers. When I click on any other speaker icons I dont hear anything.
also if I click on Central speaker there is nothing. Now if I switch on this button: "7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter", then it works for central speaker too = when I click on central speaker icon I hear "Center" only from center speaker. However right side, left side and subwoofer cant be tested properly. And also weird thing: When I control the volume, if I put down the center volume, it doesnt change anything. Center speaker gets quiter if I put down left and right front speakers... weird...
When I listen to music (mp3), all sound speakers work. However dont sound as good as they sounded before, when I had control of them all in the program. For example the Subwoofer is too quite and all the speakers seem like they emulate stereo sound instead of dolby prologic 2.
So to sum it up all loudspeakers seem like to think that they are part of a dual-loudspeaker system instead of a 5.1 system.
I tried the whole thing (testing single speakers and changing their volume) via Coaxial cable so the Optical cable is not the problem.
I also checked in Sound And Audio Device Properties that the right Sound Playback device is chosen and that 5.1 surround sound speakers is set.
I also reinstalled the High Definition Sound driver a few times and that didnt help.
I also tried testing via subwoofer and it worked perfectly, all speakers respond correctly, so thats not the problem either.
Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong? If you need more info before you can help me say so, however I cant find out what the name of my sound device is, because I dont know how. (Looked in System->Hardware and couldnt find any name) If anyone has the slightest idea of what I could do please tell, every help is appreciated.
The only things I did between the time when I had full 5.1 support on my PC and now is installig GFX drivers, no hardware changing.
