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everythingtonothing.com wrote:
> 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
> 

As far as I know there was a seperate patch to get superior surround 
sound for Doom 3 off of Creative's site. When I got my Audigy2 it was in 
beta, but I believe it may have gotten released with new Doom 3 patches 
or newer soundcard patches.

http://www.soundblaster.com/Gaming/doom3/?downloadtypedesc=12

According to that it's for the Audigy series but it's worth a shot. I 
would try updating Doom 3 to its most recent version and also your 
X-Fi's drivers from the Creative website to their most recent version- 
then give that patch a shot.

It says it's in beta but it works great for me and my 7.1 surround on my 
Audigy2. Really adds another dynamic to the game.

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