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okay, so I have all of my speakers hooked up correctly to my Denon AVR-2400 and all speakers are configured correctly to be in 5.1 surround sound. All test sounds play in the correct speakers and everything works, however when I play games or anything else I get front left and right sound; no center, sub, rear left or right. I set up the realtek driver to speaker fill but it's not filling them with anything.

I am pretty stumped here, any solutions?
 
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Veritas2

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I might have to locate the remote, maybe it will have more options. but all the buttons on the amp change the source. It's a pretty bad design flaw that doesn't make sense. Why on earth would you give me all of these sound enhancements for 2 speaker stereo but not for 5.1 surround sound. if I want sound to come out of the speakers I have to be in 6CH EXT. IN, anything else will give me silence.
 
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sometimes the simple solution is right in front of your face.
Since a lot of audio is in 2 channels (I guess) I grabbed a headphone splitter and an RCA to 3.5mm jack adapter and plugged the splitter into the port that plays the sound for front L & R so now I can switch to real surround sound when I can but still use all my speakers when audio isn't in 5.1.

Diagram for clarification:

Receiver 5.1 ports........<.........5.1 RCA cable
...................................................................> Splitter < Front speaker port on computer
Reciever Stereo ports...<....Stereo RCA cable
 
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