I have a brand new Alienware Aurora 4 that arrived friday.
Should mention that it kernal panicked immediately out of the box. :/
But I got past that and updated all the drivers and stuff and got it working just fine with the cheap stereo speakers I had sitting around.
Last night I hooked up an optical cable to the SPDIF out of the XFi titanium that came with my order, swapped to that output in the mixer panel and enabled it. Stereo sound was all that would come out.
The driver appears to be permanently set on 2.1 speakers. Nothing I do can get it to allow me to tell it that I have 5.1
I am no Home Theater / Computer Audio dummy, I recognize that Bluray movies have Dolby Digital Live and DTS tracks on them and those can be set to send out to my receiver just fine. But for games you need to have the computer capable of turning the output into a stream that the receiver recognizes. And the XFI Titanium SHOULD do that, but the first step to doing so is to tell it you actually have it connected to a 5.1 capable system
This thread seems to show that Asus Republic of Gamers are having the same problem but I don't see it on Alienware owner radar anywhere:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...X-Fi-MB2-EXPERIENCE-including-Optical-OUT-5.1
Any clues on this?
Also my understanding is that there is no seperate codec purchase needed for Titanium XFI, is that not true?
http://buy.soundblaster.com/_creati...ail&category=Software&pid=F2222DDN6Z2H2ADDEZD
If not that solves it fast for $5, but I thought it came with it.
I know there is an underground beta driver that some people have swapped to but I'd really rather avoid that if at all possible. I'd also like to avoid having to use 6 analog lines out of the back of this thing into my receiver.
I paid a good chunk of change for this box and to have something simple like game audio not work out of the Sound card, one of the biggest manufacturers of said component, seems really baffling. There has to be a simple solution to this.
Should mention that it kernal panicked immediately out of the box. :/
But I got past that and updated all the drivers and stuff and got it working just fine with the cheap stereo speakers I had sitting around.
Last night I hooked up an optical cable to the SPDIF out of the XFi titanium that came with my order, swapped to that output in the mixer panel and enabled it. Stereo sound was all that would come out.
The driver appears to be permanently set on 2.1 speakers. Nothing I do can get it to allow me to tell it that I have 5.1
I am no Home Theater / Computer Audio dummy, I recognize that Bluray movies have Dolby Digital Live and DTS tracks on them and those can be set to send out to my receiver just fine. But for games you need to have the computer capable of turning the output into a stream that the receiver recognizes. And the XFI Titanium SHOULD do that, but the first step to doing so is to tell it you actually have it connected to a 5.1 capable system
This thread seems to show that Asus Republic of Gamers are having the same problem but I don't see it on Alienware owner radar anywhere:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...X-Fi-MB2-EXPERIENCE-including-Optical-OUT-5.1
Any clues on this?
Also my understanding is that there is no seperate codec purchase needed for Titanium XFI, is that not true?
http://buy.soundblaster.com/_creati...ail&category=Software&pid=F2222DDN6Z2H2ADDEZD
If not that solves it fast for $5, but I thought it came with it.
I know there is an underground beta driver that some people have swapped to but I'd really rather avoid that if at all possible. I'd also like to avoid having to use 6 analog lines out of the back of this thing into my receiver.
I paid a good chunk of change for this box and to have something simple like game audio not work out of the Sound card, one of the biggest manufacturers of said component, seems really baffling. There has to be a simple solution to this.
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