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Problem - can't get 5.1 setup on my PC

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s_simov

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Hello fellas,
I've got myself a new receiver and 5.1 (well 5.0 , no sub yet), but for some reason i have no real surround. All is working, as it was tested before, but on my PC i have stereo only. I use win 7, and use optical cable for connection to the receiver. Yet, in Realtek i have no surround options in the Default format options . I have only the 2 channels options, no 5.1 surround, no DTS or whatever i see on other screenshots. I reinstalled the realtek manager many times, to no avail. When i go to the sound setting and click on test for DTS and DD, i get all 5 chanels working, making sounds for the test.

Any suggestions how to fix that will be most welcome. I've been struggling with that the whole week, and I'm using that nice setup for stereo only :D If it matters - I have onkyo TX-SR 608 and 5 Jamo speakers. As i said they seems to be properly connected, and the DTS test from the sound settings proves that, yet i can't get to the surround option in Realtek.

Cheers
 
Most probably you have a board without Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect.
That is too often the case.
You will require modded drivers, and that can be hard, as you are still using Win 7.
 
CityCultivator said:
Most probably you have a board without Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect.
That is too often the case.
You will require modded drivers, and that can be hard, as you are still using Win 7.
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I have Asus H170 Pro gaming motherboard . From my quick google it seems that it has " SupremeFX 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC " I can't find any info about DTS or DD tho but it should supporst 7.1 easily.

Also, when i go to the Realtek Digital Outpuut Properties, in Supported Formats i have DTS and DD checked on, and when I test them , all 5 channels work, and my receiver changes to DTS or DD . But Nothing more than 2-channel options in the Default formats , neither in this properties panel, nor in Realtek main panel.

Also - many people have 2 realtek options in the volume mixer - Realtek Digital Output, and the same but with " (optical) ". I have no 2nd option that has optical in the ( ) . I checked google for 3 days now, many people seems to have this problem, but i couldnt find any solution :confused: - many without a solution, or many very old from 2011-2013, from people with no real 5.1 on theirboard.But my board isnt old series, it supports DDR4
 
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s_simov said:
Hello fellas,
I've got myself a new receiver and 5.1 (well 5.0 , no sub yet), but for some reason i have no real surround. All is working, as it was tested before, but on my PC i have stereo only. I use win 7, and use optical cable for connection to the receiver. Yet, in Realtek i have no surround options in the Default format options . I have only the 2 channels options, no 5.1 surround, no DTS or whatever i see on other screenshots. I reinstalled the realtek manager many times, to no avail. When i go to the sound setting and click on test for DTS and DD, i get all 5 chanels working, making sounds for the test.

Any suggestions how to fix that will be most welcome. I've been struggling with that the whole week, and I'm using that nice setup for stereo only :D If it matters - I have onkyo TX-SR 608 and 5 Jamo speakers. As i said they seems to be properly connected, and the DTS test from the sound settings proves that, yet i can't get to the surround option in Realtek.

Cheers
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It will greatly depend on the content. Optical just sends the signal, and if you can hear things properly in the Audio device Control Panel, you've done what can be done.

Try a modded driver to enable options you don't have now, and maybe that helps. ;)
 
cadaveca said:
It will greatly depend on the content. Optical just sends the signal, and if you can hear things properly in the Audio device Control Panel, you've done what can be done.

Try a modded driver to enable options you don't have now, and maybe that helps. ;)
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Any idea where to find such modded driver for win7 ? I found the thread in here but it's for win10
 
s_simov said:
Also, when i go to the Realtek Digital Outpuut Properties, in Supported Formats i have DTS and DD checked on, and when I test them , all 5 channels work, and my receiver changes to DTS or DD . But Nothing more than 2-channel options in the Default formats , neither in this properties panel, nor in Realtek main panel.
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Sounds like it's working fine to me. You just haven't played any multi-channel media through it?
 
crispysilicon said:
Sounds like it's working fine to me. You just haven't played any multi-channel media through it?
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I tested on KM player, and on VLC , 3 different movies that are MKV with 7.1 DTS . But again - i have no surround options in the "default formats", only the 7-8 2-channel options- CD, DVD, studio quality, up to 96kHZ (well up to 192kHZ 24 bit, but that is not supported on my receiver). I've set this to 24-bit 96kHZ Studio quality 2-channels, but from all the screenshots i see around i should have option like 5.1 surround, 7.1 surround or DTS or something like that, that is not 2-channel, and it's after these 2-channel options .
The receiver seems to work fine, and even switches to DTS and DD when i run the tests from the properties, but that's all. I did reseting it's settings to default, in hope that it was something from there, but no difference.
 
Normal.

Download foobar2000 https://www.foobar2000.org/download

Play mp3 of choice,

Library -> Configure

Playback -> DSP Manager

Add "Upmix to 5.1" and see what that does for you.
 
crispysilicon said:
Normal.

Download foobar2000 https://www.foobar2000.org/download

Play mp3 of choice,

Library -> Configure

Playback -> DSP Manager

Add "Upmix to 5.1" and see what that does for you.
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well i don't need upscaling , i can get my back speakers to give sound as " all stereo" , but i want the surround speakers to provide only that sounds, not stereo. MP3 does not support surround.. You can make the surround speakers to fill in of course, but it's still stereo. For games and movies i do want full surround (5.1 for now and 7.1 in the future). KM and VLC usually have no problem with up to 7.1 surround, if the MKV file provides that of course.
 
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cadaveca said:
It will greatly depend on the content. Optical just sends the signal, and if you can hear things properly in the Audio device Control Panel, you've done what can be done.

Try a modded driver to enable options you don't have now, and maybe that helps. ;)
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Welcome back! nice to see you pop in :love: I had to double take!
 
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