I'm using 5.1 in Win10 using the onboard sound on an Asus motherboard.
A couple of things I've noticed - I tried to use HDMI to a HDMI switch (I'm feeding input to my projector from a Wii, Xbox, and my HTPC) but because the projector identifies itself at 2.0, I couldn't get 5.1 that way. So I had to use the onboard sound. I was able to select 5.1 in the sound applet via Control Panel. I'm not at home right now, but I'll check to see if I did anything special, but I don't think I did.
T On 18-Nov.-2021 12:07 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote:
I have a set of analog 5.1 speakers that I haven't used for quite a while. I recently built a media box for my TV out of an old Asus P9X79 with a I7-4930K, Nvidia GTX660, 16GB of DDR3 Crucial RAM running Windows 10 Pro. It works well...very quick and meets all my needs except one. For audio I am currently using a Samsung sound bar with sub woofer on my TV. It does the job but I have a set of analog 5.1 speakers that I would like to use for movies and gaming. the MB supports this, the Asus Realtek drivers support this but unfortunately Windows 10 does not seem to support anything but 2+1 speakers. It was apparently a problem that MS was going to fix and never did. And every hack and work around has been defeated by MS which wants to defeat any attempt to use this obsolete hardware.... or so I have read. Does anybody know of a solution? And just out of curiosity if 5.1 and 7.1 aren't supported anymore just what is the new standards? <w>
