Hello all. I'm new to Vista after using XP for a long, long time and, like a lot of people it seems, having problems with 5.1 audio.
I'm running Vista 64 on a Gigabyte X48 DS5 motherboard which has an ALC889A audio chipset. I've experimented with the supplied Realtek drivers, the 1.97 revision and the 2.02 release, all without success, and even tried my luck with the Vista default drivers. No matter what, I can't seem to get proper surround from my Razer HP-1 surround headphones, despite them working perfectly fine under XP. I've plugged the front, c/sub and rear jacks into the correct ports (verified by the popup in Realtek's software).
On launching the Realtek HD manager, I'm selecting the 7.1 speaker option and removing the checkbox for side speakers, as was mentioned back on pages 33-34 of this thread since I'm unable to select 'rear' as an option in 5.1 mode (the closest match to the output). The problem is that no matter what combination of options I try the rear speaker output is very, very faint and bad quality. I've experimented with the various options and maxing all the levels under the Audio Devices tab, and even managed to boost one of the back outputs somewhat but that just left the right rear one extremely quiet. All the 'Balance' sliders are equalised and I'm unable to choose the 'fill speaker' option because of the chipset edition.
The way the rear audio varies in volume and equality suggests to me that clearly something's not right, but I can confirm the headphones themselves aren't faulty. I've searched all over, but short of seeing that many other folks are having similar difficulties I've not found any solution.
Many thanks for any help anyone could suggest on this.
08-21-2008
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