Doom 3 and X-fi Platinum surround sound help?

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From: everythingtonothing.com
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:42

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Hello everyone.  I recently just purchased an x-fi platinum sound card.
 I also have doom 3.  I am having trouble setting up 5.1 surround sound
and all my looking on the net has left me clueless.  This is my setup:

Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum connected from "break out" box using a
digital optical out to my home receiver.  I do not get surround sound
and when I open Doom there is not option to turn it on or anything.  I
have my control panel set to 5.1 surround sound speakers and I know
this receiver accepts dolby and all the other surround sound formats
because my DVD player works perfectly with it.  Should I have the Sound
Blaster software set to use an external decoder or the built in one?
Anything else I am missing?
Thanks,
Mike

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Subject: Doom 3 and X-fi Platinum surround sound help?
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