4.1 sound setup working on test but sound not coming from rear during gaming music or any other things

akashdrummerboy · Sep 22, 2015

I have Gigabyte 970A-D3P rev 1.0 motherboard. It supports 7.1 audio output. So I got myself a Creative 4.1 sound system. When testing the speakers, all 4 speakers were working. But when Iam trying to play music or gaming or anything of that sort.. Only the front two speakers are working and the rest two arent. I will point out Iam using windows 10 64bit and Gigabyte hasnt provided with the latest Windows 10 Realtek Drivers so I have to use the VIA HD Audio for this.. How to set this up? please help..

Cons29 · Sep 22, 2015

try to check in game settings, or some other settings you might have

1LiquidPC · Sep 22, 2015

What audio cable(s) are you using? If its the toslink cable, its because the audio needs to encoded in games/music to be multichannel. I had to switch to the green, orange, black cables to get surround on my X99 board. I didn't have this limitation using my discrete creative soundcard before(toslink surround worked for everything).

akashdrummerboy · Sep 23, 2015

can u please elaborate? i plugged in the green cable at the back of the motherboard... and also the black cable to the black plugin back of the motherboard.. what to do? As i told u iam getting the sound when testing but when playing music or games i can hear only the front two speakers

1LiquidPC · Sep 23, 2015

Your cables are the same type I'm using, just one less. Your not using Toslink, so thats not the problem. What settings are enabled in your Realtek options? 4.1 enabled? Any option to force surround from a stereo source?

akashdrummerboy · Sep 23, 2015

Realtek drivera arent available from gigabyte yet for my motherboard. Iam using the VIA HD sound driver that came bundled with windows 10

1LiquidPC · Sep 23, 2015

Are their Windows 8.1 drivers from Gigabytes' website? They may work as well, as quite a few of the drivers work for both OS versions. Also, did you get a chance to check your settings?

akashdrummerboy · Sep 25, 2015

I dont think 8.1 drivers will work :/.... yes they have that on their site... As i mentioned earlier I can get the the 4.1 working when testing. I tested individually and all of them work ONLY on testing but anything apart from that.. only the front two works

1LiquidPC · Sep 25, 2015

I understand what your saying. I had same problem, but mine was corrected with cable swap. Its either going to be a setting in driver software, or a limitation of the audio chip Realtek 892 on your board. If audio or games aren't coded for the surround format your board supports, it will only be stereo sound. You may need a separate soundcard. The "test" in the software was made in multichannel. You may be able to download a testfile to verify this. Maybe google for one?

akashdrummerboy · Sep 25, 2015

I got a testfile from some other thread. It played properly.

1LiquidPC · Sep 25, 2015

There may be a setting in the software to convert stereo to surround, though I believe it's made for headphones. If not, you may need a soundcard.

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