re: No Surround Sound
Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Posted by Bob H
(219 messages posted)
Creative has some beta drivers for Vista online but you need to remove anything installed
from the Creative CD first in order for the sound to work correctly. Also...the gameport
may not be supported.
On Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 8:53 am, MartyA wrote:
>Here is my computer at present
>
>Toybox Hardware As of 2/24/07
>
>ASUS Midtower case
>ASUS P5LD2 Motherboard with 800 MB Front Side Bus
>Pentium D CPU 3.4 GHz Dual Core
>Samsung 3 Gigs Memory
>Western Digital HD 250 GB RAID SATA
>Maxtor One Touch II 200 GB External HD
>ASUS DRW-1608PCS DVD-RW Drive Dual Layer
>Floppy “A” Drive
>nVidia 8800 GTS with 640 MB Memory
>Creative Labs Audigy 4 Sound Card with P 7800 7.1 Surround Sound Speakers
>Linksys Broadband Firewall Router
>Motorola SBVS120 SURFboard Cable Modem
>APC BACKUPS XS 800
> I dowloaded the Vista Drivers for the sound card and am sure the speakers are connected
>and configured properly but only the fron speakers are producing sound. Any suggestions
>on a recommended sound card or workaround for surround sound?
>
>Thanks,
>MartyA
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re: No Surround Sound
Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Posted by John Adams
(13 messages posted)
Ah, so you upgraded to Windows Vista! Congratulations, you join the list of shmucks
(myself included) who've gone this route.
Okay, let me begin. Realtek produces a Windows-V ista-compatible High Definition
Audio Driver, the installation package named Vista_R160.exe is available from their
Website at realtek.com.tw
Now this installs a beautiful stereo driver that becomes part of the Vista Operating
System. It's not a separate program, but enhances the standard Vista software that
produces beautiful MONO from your stereo speakers. Mono unless you're running Windows
Media Player, and then you can turn-on SRS while the player is playing (heh-heh).
But what about Realtek SRS? Alas, Realtek has not yet produced a Surround-Sound
(SRS) program that's Windows Vista compatible.
It's not an easy task because Windows Vista has completely revamped the manner in
which an application hooks into the sound system (Audio Stack). Microsoft provides
may useful API's(application programming interfaces) in their Windows software for
the convenience of programmers who have to PAY to access them.
Now you probably are aware that virtually every laptop sold today contains Windows
Vista. You may or may not be aware that at present virtually every PCMCIA broadband
PCS card that's designed to slide into a laptop uses software that will NOT work
with Windows Vista. So with a waive of his hand, Bill Gates has caused portable
broadband PCS card (Sprint, AT&T/Cingular, Verizon) to be incompatible with millions
of laptops (that these cards were designed for).
Now if you think THAT's dirty, have you noticed that when assigning an application
to a file-type, you can only select from the recommended applications. You can no
longer browse. Incidentally InterVideo's DivX system DIES on Vista, and so far they
are merely PROMISING to fix things.
I could go on and on, but the bottom line is, this is Microsoft telling the software
industry that many of the applications are going to have to be rewritten to be compatible
with Vista, and it's going to cost money.
Oh, incidentally, if you're running Vista, go into "Run" (heh-heh) and type mscongig.
Then when msconfig opems, click the the start-up tab and uncheck "ZeroCfgSvc Application,"
if its present. Part ofv the intel chipset used for Wi-Fi, it not only isn't needed
but consumes over 50% of the cpu time 24/7! I mean Vista crawls when that program
is running.
Have fun!
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