🚀 go-pugleaf

On 6 Jul 2006 17:42:56 -0700, 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

By the sound of your description you are wanting your soundblaster to
output surround sound to your reciver via one single digital audio
connection.

To do this your soundcard would have to encode your audio into Dolby
Digital or DTS.

AFAIK non of the Soundblasters can do this out of the box and only the
Audigy series can do it via a 3rd party app (and with a bit of lag too).

All I can say is connect your soundblaster to your reciver using the
analouge outputs (if your reciver has multichannel analouge inputs) or
ditch your soundblaster and buy a HDA X-plosion, which CAN do Dolby
Digital and DTS encoding.  I have one and the sound in Doom3 and all of
my other games with surround sound is stunning on my 4.0 speaker setup
on my reciver. (centres and subs are for wusses!)

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