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TurtlePerson2 wrote:This is a really strange thread. The OP asked a question, then attacks anyone who tries to answer it.
By the way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference
Interference is a real thing. Basically if you two waves with the same frequency, but arriving at different times they can cancel each other out. In the extreme case of two waves out of phase you see total destruction (the black lines in the interference patterns on the Wikipedia article). Of course the two could add together and make a wave that is twice as strong.
Sound waves are waves, so they have interference patterns too. Interference is taught in most introductory E-M (electricity and magnetism) physics courses in college.
Vayate wrote:Thought I'd add my 2 cents, since I had a similar problem. I have the Xonar D2X, with Klipsch 4.1 speakers, and noted the same problem after switching to the Xonar- I noticed that only my front speakers would output sound when playing music (from iTunes). After a lot of tinkering with various settings (and swearing), I found that changing the number of channels in the Xonar Audio Center to "2" fixed the problem. Any other number of channels, and there would be no music from the rear speakers. Hope that helps.
EDIT for clarification: I kept the speaker number in the Audio Center set to 4 speakers, but the channels set to 2.
AbRASiON wrote:Vayate wrote:Thought I'd add my 2 cents, since I had a similar problem. I have the Xonar D2X, with Klipsch 4.1 speakers, and noted the same problem after switching to the Xonar- I noticed that only my front speakers would output sound when playing music (from iTunes). After a lot of tinkering with various settings (and swearing), I found that changing the number of channels in the Xonar Audio Center to "2" fixed the problem. Any other number of channels, and there would be no music from the rear speakers. Hope that helps.
EDIT for clarification: I kept the speaker number in the Audio Center set to 4 speakers, but the channels set to 2.
Ahh thank you for the response.
Someone else has thrown that suggestion at me on another forum and (apparently it works)
Now my concern is, when you fire up a '3D' game with surround like Half Life 2 or most modern FPS games, aren't you effectively telling the game 'hey, I only have 2 speakers' - then the game will no longer send /discreet/ rear sounds to the rear speakers?
(Solution, go in to the control panel and change it - but a lot of fiddling is required then)
Vayate wrote:Ahh thank you for the response.
Someone else has thrown that suggestion at me on another forum and (apparently it works)
Now my concern is, when you fire up a '3D' game with surround like Half Life 2 or most modern FPS games, aren't you effectively telling the game 'hey, I only have 2 speakers' - then the game will no longer send /discreet/ rear sounds to the rear speakers?
(Solution, go in to the control panel and change it - but a lot of fiddling is required then)
TurtlePerson2 wrote:AbRASiON wrote:Vayate wrote:Thought I'd add my 2 cents, since I had a similar problem. I have the Xonar D2X, with Klipsch 4.1 speakers, and noted the same problem after switching to the Xonar- I noticed that only my front speakers would output sound when playing music (from iTunes). After a lot of tinkering with various settings (and swearing), I found that changing the number of channels in the Xonar Audio Center to "2" fixed the problem. Any other number of channels, and there would be no music from the rear speakers. Hope that helps.
EDIT for clarification: I kept the speaker number in the Audio Center set to 4 speakers, but the channels set to 2.
Ahh thank you for the response.
Someone else has thrown that suggestion at me on another forum and (apparently it works)
Now my concern is, when you fire up a '3D' game with surround like Half Life 2 or most modern FPS games, aren't you effectively telling the game 'hey, I only have 2 speakers' - then the game will no longer send /discreet/ rear sounds to the rear speakers?
(Solution, go in to the control panel and change it - but a lot of fiddling is required then)
You set it from inside the game. Half-Life 2 and all Source games let you choose the number of audio channels from the settings menu.
AbRASiON wrote:So change it back and forth each time? Very logical,... great job.
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
AbRASiON wrote:Having to change it per application, when Realtek don't need to? Whut.
Zoomastigophora wrote:As others have mentioned, Dolby Virtual Speaker will upmix the signal across a 5.1 setup.
Vayate wrote:I have noticed that if you leave the Xonar in 2 channel mode, then 3D games do suffer a bit...the sound is still good, but it does the same thing as with music - it either only uses the front speakers, or they all put out equal sound, which is a bit disorienting. The way I've worked around this is to switch the Xonar to 2 channels for music, and 8 channels for games.
MadManOriginal wrote:For reference: this thread still makes me laugh to this day.
TwistedKestrel wrote:I just checked through the thread, making sure nobody has posted the easiest answer -
Anyway, brainbit's Unified Xonar Drivers offer the option of 4 channel stereo when they are installed. And are generally better than ASUS's drivers in every way. I was somewhat disappointed to see that Geoff didn't even mention the driver issues in TR's latest Xonar U3 review.
TwistedKestrel wrote:I just checked through the thread, making sure nobody has posted the easiest answer -
Anyway, brainbit's Unified Xonar Drivers offer the option of 4 channel stereo when they are installed. And are generally better than ASUS's drivers in every way. I was somewhat disappointed to see that Geoff didn't even mention the driver issues in TR's latest Xonar U3 review.
AbRASiON wrote:I just loaded on the latest Uni Xonar drivers and I still can't get stereo upmix without having to manually set my sound configuration to 2 speakers manually (sigh...) which means you forget to put it back to 5.1 for games (and need to quit, manually set back to 5.1 then reopen the game)
Argh :/ I guess this feature will never be properly supported on these cards.