I recently bought some new bits for my PC including the P35C-DS3R. To save a slot which would have normally been occupied by my Audigy sound card, I thought I'd try the Realtek on-board audio.
With my Audigy, I would connect the digital din to my Inspire 5700 receiver and get great 5.1 sound in games and decoded DD5.1 and DTS in DVDs. Great!
With the Realtek, there is no din connector, so I used the digital coax to connect to the receiver. I get sound OK (in stereo only) in games, but get DD5.1/DTS from DVDs. So, sort of OK.
I'm very confused though by the Audio Manager. When I load it, the screen looks nothing like the images shown in the Mobo manual. I'm also confused by
1) I have no way of setting customised equaliser controls, just a few presets. (Again, the manual suggests that I should be able to do that.)
2) there are no screens to configure speaker set-ups as shown in the manual.
3) in control panel options, I can only select 2-channels.
I am running Vista by the way.
Am I being stupid here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
With my Audigy, I would connect the digital din to my Inspire 5700 receiver and get great 5.1 sound in games and decoded DD5.1 and DTS in DVDs. Great!
With the Realtek, there is no din connector, so I used the digital coax to connect to the receiver. I get sound OK (in stereo only) in games, but get DD5.1/DTS from DVDs. So, sort of OK.
I'm very confused though by the Audio Manager. When I load it, the screen looks nothing like the images shown in the Mobo manual. I'm also confused by
1) I have no way of setting customised equaliser controls, just a few presets. (Again, the manual suggests that I should be able to do that.)
2) there are no screens to configure speaker set-ups as shown in the manual.
3) in control panel options, I can only select 2-channels.
I am running Vista by the way.
Am I being stupid here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.