I just got this motherboard and it works great. I love the features. One of the things it features is 7.1 channel high definition audio.
Currently I am connected to a receiver using an optical cable through the spdif port. I tested it in the windows sound menu and it works great, transmitting dolby digital and DTS to my receiver. When I fire up a game however, my receiver stays in PCM mode and I am pretty sure it is still two channel (it is tough to tell because dolby pro logic, the virtual surround automatically kicks in on my receiver). The "speaker" option for playback in the windows sound menu is greyed out and I am pretty sure it refers only to the audio jacks on the motherboard not the spdif since it says not connected.
I used to have the blugears b-enspirer sound card for the longest time. It used dolby digital live to get surround sound through the optical cable. With that card you could manually selected dolby digital or DTS and it would stay in that output mode whether or not your audio had 5 discrete channels.
My point is it has been a long time since I had to mess with any of this, and I don't know what I am doing. I want to know how to get surround sound in games out of the spdif (optical) port on my motherboard. Is it even possible with this setup? Do I need a card with dolby digital live if I want to use my optical cable for sound?
Thanks in advance
Currently I am connected to a receiver using an optical cable through the spdif port. I tested it in the windows sound menu and it works great, transmitting dolby digital and DTS to my receiver. When I fire up a game however, my receiver stays in PCM mode and I am pretty sure it is still two channel (it is tough to tell because dolby pro logic, the virtual surround automatically kicks in on my receiver). The "speaker" option for playback in the windows sound menu is greyed out and I am pretty sure it refers only to the audio jacks on the motherboard not the spdif since it says not connected.
I used to have the blugears b-enspirer sound card for the longest time. It used dolby digital live to get surround sound through the optical cable. With that card you could manually selected dolby digital or DTS and it would stay in that output mode whether or not your audio had 5 discrete channels.
My point is it has been a long time since I had to mess with any of this, and I don't know what I am doing. I want to know how to get surround sound in games out of the spdif (optical) port on my motherboard. Is it even possible with this setup? Do I need a card with dolby digital live if I want to use my optical cable for sound?
Thanks in advance
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