So when I first got this card, when I played music thru itunes it would play through all 6 speakers (I have a kilpsch ultra 5.1 setup).

I had to reformat and couldn't find my install disc so I download the drivers from Creative's website (which didn't include all the programs the orig disc did) and since then when I play music it only plays thru the front two speakers and the sub. when I play a dvd it uses all 6 speakers.

I've dug through all the soundcard options I can find, can anyone take a guess as to why this is happening?

10/30/2006 12:37:46 PM

Well most music is 2 channel, so unless you change ask it to upmix, it's going to play through 2 speakers. The CMSS 3d settings in the audigy control pannel deal with that. You're going to lose some of the quality when it upmixes it because it does it pretty stupidly.

Double click on the creative volume control icon on the bottom right. On the bottom of that window is an icon for "eax console." In that window is a tab for "CMSS 3d." If you enable it, it will upmix your two channel music to 5.1 surround. This will make your music louder but it's going to be messier sounding. If you listen to shit though, then maybe louder is all you want?

[Edited on October 30, 2006 at 12:46 PM. Reason : ]

10/30/2006 12:41:26 PM

leave it at 2 channel, music is stereo

10/30/2006 12:41:49 PM

NO IT IS NOT IT IS ALL AROUND US LIVE PHREE MAN

10/30/2006 12:55:14 PM

^^^ yeah sometimes I do want it lounder and I can deal with the crappy sound quality.

so i did find this:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=25677&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Download site, which seems to be the oem isos for most of the soundblaster products:
http://hosted.filefront.com/BadBoyforum

so assuming these isos work then i should be in business.



on another topic, i currently have the sound output from my dvd player going into my SB4 card. Its two rcas coming out of the dvd player going into a miniplug which plugs into the sound input on my sound card. problem is this setup causes a background noise whenever i don't have the input muted. i know its ghetto but it kinda works. anyone know a better way to get the dvd audio to play thru pc speakers?

10/30/2006 1:08:16 PM

so would the CMSS 3D stuff fix the fact that on an audigy 4 pro, the optical out doesn't give me 5.1 to my A/V reciever? because it's annoying as shit to have to face 15 degrees off someone to hear their voice loudly in a game like oblivion

10/30/2006 2:29:27 PM

Nope, the optical out on the audigy's is only 2 channel. CMSS 3D will not help as the card simply will not output more than 2 channels over the optical out. The actual upmixing would have to be done with your receiver.

If this is an issue for you because you're trying to get 3d sound in games and movies to play through your receiver from your computer, then it's not going to work. The surround channels will simply not be output over the optical and you'll lose whatever is on them. This pissed me off back in the day because the reason I had purchased an Audigy 2 Platinum years ago was to play games and dvd's on my computer and use my stereo system as my speakers. Maybe there's a work-around for the audigy 4 series, but it would most likely have to be 3rd party if anything and I highly doubt it.

10/30/2006 2:53:03 PM

yeah, that's what I figured - I thought I had tried to play with the CMSS and whatnot, but couldn't remember. it's quite frustrating indeed

10/30/2006 3:01:17 PM

any ideas on this peeps?

Quote :

" i currently have the sound output from my dvd player going into my SB4 card. Its two rcas coming out of the dvd player going into a miniplug which plugs into the sound input on my sound card. problem is this setup causes a background noise whenever i don't have the input muted. i know its ghetto but it kinda works. anyone know a better way to get the dvd audio to play thru pc speakers? "

10/30/2006 10:03:14 PM

If 2 channel in is sufficient and the dvd player has optical out, you could try the audigy's SPDIF in (if it's got the break out box or drive bay module.) That might work better. Is playing the DVD on the computer itself not an option? Are you basically ghetto rigging your computer to a dvd player because you have really nice tv connected to the DVD player but your only sound system is the computer speaker system? I mean I could understand wanting the sound to play through those nice freaking speakers of yours, but what you're doing here doesn't sound worth the effort. It might be simpler to output EVERYTHING from the computer itself. If you want to hook it up to a tv, there's s-video out and some high end tv's have DVI in. What kind of video outputs does your computer have?

10/31/2006 8:04:20 AM

The main reason I don't want to play the DVD on the PC is the lack of a remote control. Another is I already have 2 LCDs hooked up to it and don't want to mess with adding a third monitor to the system. i have s-video out and in my pre 2-monitor-days i would use the tv as a second monitor and watch dvds there...but again with no remote

and yeah i dont have any home theatre speakers in my room so i like using the klipsch set. if i could hook up the dvd player directly to the klipsch i could just switch the inputs out...but from what i can tell theres no way to do that.

10/31/2006 1:55:12 PM

turned out to be a problem with iTunes. I had an early version 7 installed, installed the latest version and it works.


anyone have any info/ideas on the line-in noise issue?

11/8/2006 5:39:30 PM