Well, I can go into control panel/sound /speakers/Properties and then pick either 5.1 or 7.1 but in 5.1 the back speakers don't work and in 7.1 they become side speakers. I think this is because of the lack of windows 10 support. But when I try to play a audio file I get nothing..no sound at all. I don't understand why MS would go out of their way to block speakers. I did find this article about the problem.
https://appuals.com/channel-surround-sound-not-working-in-windows-10/ [https://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/run-command-300x161.png]<https://appuals.com/channel-surround-sound-not-working-in-windows-10/> Fix: Channel Surround Sound Not Working in Windows 10 - Appuals.com<https://appuals.com/channel-surround-sound-not-working-in-windows-10/> Press Windows key + R and type “mmsys.cpl”.Hit Enter to open the Sound dialog box.; Go to the Playback tab, select your 5.1 surround speakers and click on Properties.; Next, go to the Advanced tab and use the drop-down menu below Default Format to change the audio format to 24 bit, 96000 Hz (Studio Quality).Hit Apply to save your modifications.; Reboot your system and see whether 5.1 ... appuals.com ________________________________ From: Hardware <[email protected]> on behalf of Thane K. Sherrington <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2021 9:01 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] 5.1 speakers in Windows 10 Pro 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> > >
