SupremeFX X-Fi (Crosshair III mobo) limited multichannel sound from SPDIF

[Tobes]

Hey,

This is driving me nuts. OK so I have that crappy little sound card which uses the PCI-E slot which can't be used for anything else...

anyway I am using a TOSlink cable (optical) and my Denon 2807 amp is only picking up multi channel sound when I play a DVD with windows media player. Nothing in games. I can't press the configure button on the SPDIF interface in the Sound Devices but I can on the other one which I assume is the analogue ports. Which means I can't manually set it to 7.1. Running the latest drivers and creative package from the Asus website.

Any ideas?

 

[Tobes]

http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound...tions-SPDIF-and-Dolby-Digital-Info/td-p/45857

PC Games
PC games usually use technologies like as EAX to create surround sound, not Dolby Digital. So even if your speaker system has a Dolby Digital decoder, it will be of no use when playing games. The EAX processing is done on the soundcard, and the 6-channel sound is output via the analogue (or digital DIN if available). So you still need analogue connections to your digital speakers for games, if you just use an optical/coax cable you will only get the front left/right sound.

Is this true!? So for me to get multichannel sound from PC games I have to run another 3 cables to my amp? Is this true for all sound cards?

 

[Tobes]

Well the thing is I'm going to be getting into music programs like Ableton and Reason so I was going to look for a soundcard more dedicated to that route. I was just hoping that this card would do for games but obviously not.

Oh well thanks for the quick reply.