oboard realtek clipping with spdif

[cokecan]

hey all, just had to go take my x-mystique out me shuttle to make room for a second graphics card and thus had to go back to usin crappy onboard sound (realtek AC97).

since installing it i have a slight problem, i use spdif to connect to my amp, but everytime a sound is played on my comp, the begenning of it is cut off while the signal is sent to my amp.

is there anyway i can get a constant signal sent to my amp to stop this clipping? with soundstorm and my x-mystique it was possible

any ideas?

 

[cokecan]

it is set to auto detect, so when i use dvds with the spdif passthrough it will detect either dd or dts etc. i think its just slow to switch (its an old skool sony STR-DE495)

ive tried quite a few drivers, nvidia and realtek and they both do the same thing.

my amp knows theres somethin connected to the optical connection, but its not being sent anythin until a sound is played (the pic of the speakers dissapears when theres no sound, then reappears when a sound is playing).

its very annoyin as all windows sounds are clipped, anythin i listen to gets clipped if i pause or stop it hten play again, havnt tried any games yet but i can imagine that bein quite bad

 

[cokecan]

i dont think its a problem witht he amp, my 360 and dvd players works fine on it with optical. even when theres no sound playing it doesnt stop sending a signal to it. i think its just a driver issue.

I've had it before with both soundstorm and my x-mystique, though i found either a work around or updated drivers that worked better

ive got some older realtek ones to try, so ill try them in a bit and report back.

 

[cokecan]

i tried them before also, it seems to be the same problem with every version of driver i try, realtek and nvidia

think im just gonna have to live with it