Yesturday I purchased the Asus Xonar D2X from Overclockers to replace my old X-Fi Fatality Champion card that was giving me driver issues under Windows 7. Since getting rid of that card i've rebuilt my machine and i've been using onboard sound, which let's be fair, isn't that great.
Now putting the D2X into my system it sounds superb in 2 channel. But I cannot for the life of me get it to work in 5.1 with my Tritton AXPro's over SPDIF Optical.
I've finally managed to get my Logitech X-540's work over analog with lots of messing around. Now when testing the rear speakers, the sound comes from the rear and so forth.
But getting the headphones to work is proving hard. I've tried all sorts of settings and none seem to work. The decoder on the Trittons never shows as Dolby Digital, I can enable Pro Logic 2 for upmixing stereo but thats it.
On the Xonar control panel i've checked SPDIF and tried different settings like PCM, Dolby Live etc but all I get is either stereo or using Pro Logic on the Trittons, upmixed stereo. Which sounds good don't get me wrong, but it isn't surround. The sound in games often sounds like there is an echo, i've check the effects menu but it shows all effects are off.
I've tested a few games, but mostly Bad Company 2 to test it as it is meant to be a great 5.1 game and is Dolby certified.
My relevent computer specs are:
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V
CPU: i5 2500k
OS: Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium
I've tried updating the D2X drivers, first time round caused a BSOD but after a restart the installation completed. I've uninstalled the onboard sound drivers and in BIOS disabled the onboard HD audio.
Here are screenshots of my settings:
http://geon106.co.uk/d2xscreenshot.jpg
Any help appreciated as i'm starting to question my £83 investment
Now putting the D2X into my system it sounds superb in 2 channel. But I cannot for the life of me get it to work in 5.1 with my Tritton AXPro's over SPDIF Optical.
I've finally managed to get my Logitech X-540's work over analog with lots of messing around. Now when testing the rear speakers, the sound comes from the rear and so forth.
But getting the headphones to work is proving hard. I've tried all sorts of settings and none seem to work. The decoder on the Trittons never shows as Dolby Digital, I can enable Pro Logic 2 for upmixing stereo but thats it.
On the Xonar control panel i've checked SPDIF and tried different settings like PCM, Dolby Live etc but all I get is either stereo or using Pro Logic on the Trittons, upmixed stereo. Which sounds good don't get me wrong, but it isn't surround. The sound in games often sounds like there is an echo, i've check the effects menu but it shows all effects are off.
I've tested a few games, but mostly Bad Company 2 to test it as it is meant to be a great 5.1 game and is Dolby certified.
My relevent computer specs are:
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V
CPU: i5 2500k
OS: Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium
I've tried updating the D2X drivers, first time round caused a BSOD but after a restart the installation completed. I've uninstalled the onboard sound drivers and in BIOS disabled the onboard HD audio.
Here are screenshots of my settings:
http://geon106.co.uk/d2xscreenshot.jpg
Any help appreciated as i'm starting to question my £83 investment
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