Setting up Dolby on Xonar STX

stoke1863 · 6 Feb 2016 at 18:18

I have Beyerdynamic DT990 and Asus STX soundcard what is the best way to get the Dolby surround sound in game ?

Do i have to set windows to 7.1 then go into the Asus programming and put the channels to 8 and use DH2?

Only problem is having to change it back to stero every time I want to listen to music ,(seems windows also changes its settings to stero too)

Anyway to make this easier and quicker ? Pretty frustrating needing to change my settings all the time

Spec-Chum · 6 Feb 2016 at 18:22

Just set the "audio channels" to 8, this will set windows to 7.1 automatically, then make sure analog out is "Headphone" then tick Dolby Headphone. Done.

But yes, you do, and should, turn Dolby off and change audio channel back to 2 when you listen to music unless you use a WASAPI player like foobar.

stoke1863 · 6 Feb 2016 at 18:34

Spec-Chum said:
Just set the "audio channels" to 8, this will set windows to 7.1 automatically, then make sure analog out is "Headphone" then tick Dolby Headphone. Done.

But yes, you do, and should, turn Dolby off and change audio channel back to 2 when you listen to music unless you use a WASAPI player like foobar.

Is there no way to do this quickly ? Really annoying having to set it every time I want to game

Spec-Chum · 6 Feb 2016 at 18:47

Not that I know of, it's not that bad really.

You'd have to turn DH off anyway.

rids57 · 6 Feb 2016 at 20:28

I just select headphone output, 8 channel and then hit the GAME button

To go back I just select 2 channel and the HF button

stoke1863 · 6 Feb 2016 at 22:02

http://maxedtech.com/xonarswitch-beta-testing/

This is the solution . you can set up profiles and use keyboard shortcuts to switch it on the fly. From the same people who make the uni Xonar drivers.

Should I be using the uni Xonar drivers ?

Spec-Chum · 6 Feb 2016 at 22:25

Yes, 100% yes.

ASUS drivers suck.

Spec-Chum · 6 Feb 2016 at 22:25

rids57 said:
I just select headphone output, 8 channel and then hit the GAME button

To go back I just select 2 channel and the HF button

Problem I have with that is the GAME uses DH mode 3 which sounds awful IMO. I use mode 2.

stoke1863 · 6 Feb 2016 at 23:07

Spec-Chum said:
Yes, 100% yes.

ASUS drivers suck.

What's the difference ? Im using the Asus ones at the moment

rids57 · 6 Feb 2016 at 23:32

Spec-Chum said:
Problem I have with that is the GAME uses DH mode 3 which sounds awful IMO. I use mode 2.

You sure of that? It's DH2 on mine.

The Music setting uses DH3 but gaming and movies both use DH2 and seeing as I only ever listen to music in stereo I don't actually ever use DH3.

Spec-Chum · 6 Feb 2016 at 23:45

rids57 said:
You sure of that? It's DH2 on mine.

The Music setting uses DH3 but gaming and movies both use DH2 and seeing as I only ever listen to music in stereo I don't actually ever use DH3.

My bad, just checked and game is 2. I could, therefore, use it lol

Spec-Chum · 6 Feb 2016 at 23:46

stoke1863 said:
What's the difference ? Im using the Asus ones at the moment

Everything you need will be here.

stoke1863 · 6 Feb 2016 at 23:51

Spec-Chum said:
Everything you need will be here.

Thanks

That xnoar switcher is really great. Makes switching between game and music profiles with a keyboard shortcut

Spec-Chum · 6 Feb 2016 at 23:54

stoke1863 said:
Thanks

That xnoar switcher is really great. Makes switching between game and music profiles with a keyboard shortcut

Cool, I'll check it out.

Spec-Chum · 7 Feb 2016 at 00:06

I've checked it out...and I'm deffo keeping it haha

Good find.