Vista - Surround (5.1) Support?

I can't set my audio card to play Surround sounds, I can only hear my 2 front
speakers... I tried setting it to Surround (from Control Panel > Speakers >
Configure > Next), but it's disabled (grey).

I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, with an Audigy 2 Soundblaster (24-bit,
7.1).

If anyone has encountered this problem and knows how to solve it, please
help !!!

"andrei.cst" <andrei.cst@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3BBA8EE8-59FA-444B-B6C4-50ADB8F9B215@microsoft.com...
>I can't set my audio card to play Surround sounds, I can only hear my 2
>front
> speakers... I tried setting it to Surround (from Control Panel > Speakers
> >
> Configure > Next), but it's disabled (grey).
>
> I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, with an Audigy 2 Soundblaster (24-bit,
> 7.1).
>
> If anyone has encountered this problem and knows how to solve it, please
> help !!!

Have you tried the Creative beta drivers?
http://ask.americas.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=ww_english_add,U={B8F60310-DA4F-11D3-94F4-00500463020E},Company={CEAE216D-8719-4C00-AC9F-03BC258F7B70},d=1130251443648,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com,case=14186

Bob

"Bob" wrote:

>
> "andrei.cst" <andrei.cst@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3BBA8EE8-59FA-444B-B6C4-50ADB8F9B215@microsoft.com...
> >I can't set my audio card to play Surround sounds, I can only hear my 2
> >front
> > speakers... I tried setting it to Surround (from Control Panel > Speakers
> > >
> > Configure > Next), but it's disabled (grey).
> >
> > I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, with an Audigy 2 Soundblaster (24-bit,
> > 7.1).
> >
> > If anyone has encountered this problem and knows how to solve it, please
> > help !!!
>
> Have you tried the Creative beta drivers?
> http://ask.americas.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=ww_english_add,U={B8F60310-DA4F-11D3-94F4-00500463020E},Company={CEAE216D-8719-4C00-AC9F-03BC258F7B70},d=1130251443648,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com,case=14186
>
> Bob
>
>
>

So what if your drivers are not available? I have a creative live 5.1 sound
card...I can only hear sound out of my two front speakers as well...any help
would be great! Thanks!

"andrei.cst" wrote:

> I can't set my audio card to play Surround sounds, I can only hear my 2 front
> speakers... I tried setting it to Surround (from Control Panel > Speakers >
> Configure > Next), but it's disabled (grey).
>
> I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, with an Audigy 2 Soundblaster (24-bit,
> 7.1).
>
> If anyone has encountered this problem and knows how to solve it, please
> help !!!

You have to download the Beta drivers from Creative and then set 5.1 or 7.1
within the creative control panel as well as through windows.

"Ncezno" wrote:

> So what if your drivers are not available? I have a creative live 5.1 sound
> card...I can only hear sound out of my two front speakers as well...any help
> would be great! Thanks!
>
> "andrei.cst" wrote:
>
> > I can't set my audio card to play Surround sounds, I can only hear my 2 front
> > speakers... I tried setting it to Surround (from Control Panel > Speakers >
> > Configure > Next), but it's disabled (grey).
> >
> > I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, with an Audigy 2 Soundblaster (24-bit,
> > 7.1).
> >
> > If anyone has encountered this problem and knows how to solve it, please
> > help !!!

You have to download the creative beta drivers and then set 5.1 in the
creative control panel as well as through windows

"andrei.cst" wrote:

> I can't set my audio card to play Surround sounds, I can only hear my 2 front
> speakers... I tried setting it to Surround (from Control Panel > Speakers >
> Configure > Next), but it's disabled (grey).
>
> I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, with an Audigy 2 Soundblaster (24-bit,
> 7.1).
>
> If anyone has encountered this problem and knows how to solve it, please
> help !!!