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Mr ChriZ

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Surround Vista
« on: March 18, 2008, 07:13:23 am »
I've recently aquired a new Dell XPS laptop.
It has Sigma Tel surround sound.
I'm trying to set it up to listen to internet radio
cloned across a 5.1 system.

I had no problem with this on my old XP machine through TB Santa Cruz.
On the laptop however when I set the DSP Studio to sample to more
channels I get the following messagebox.



The surround sound is definitley working as there's a Vista test which puts sound
to all 6 speakers.

I've also tried switching between DirectOutput, and Wave Output.

Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Chris.
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Re: Surround Vista
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2008, 09:00:27 am »
Is there any chance you are using Vista 64 bit? I read that they completely rewrote the audio stack and so in order for applications to do surround sound in Vista 64, they have to be rewritten to use the new stuff or something like that. If you try using the 64 bit version of Windows Media Player, you should be able to get surround sound.
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Re: Surround Vista
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2008, 09:53:55 am »
I'm using 32bit Vista, not sure may still have implications...
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Mr ChriZ

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Re: Surround Vista
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2008, 08:33:45 am »
Still having problems here.
It would seem we need to use Vista's "Speaker Fill" function.
However I'm having varied success with this...
Sometimes it works... other times it doesn't and continues
to play stuff on 2 speakers...
Anyone else had any experience with this?
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