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Help with Prelude 4.1

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I have the Prelude, a Pioneer K515 surround receiver, 4 speakers, a sub, the creative surround sound wiring cables and an optical cable.

WTF do I have to do to get surround working? I have tried digital and analogue with no sound from the back speakers or sub ever.

I have always used 2.1 or headphones so what am I missing here? It should be easy right? lol

I have tried everything that I can think of so tell me how you got it to work and I will love you dearly. I want to get surround working for cod4.
 
Do you have the windows sound panel set to 4.1?

If you are using the optical cable...you will only get two channel PCM sound unless you have a Dobly Digital/DTS passthrough (like watching a movie and using spdif output). Or if you have your card set to Dobly Digital Live...then if you are listening to anything that actually has surround channels, it will be encoded to DD and you should hear the surround channels.
 
yeah I just cannot seem to get rear signal for anything. I am trying to use optical but have also used analogue. Nothing has worked so far. Not a deal breaker and I will quit trying for the day but any help is appreciated. XP Pro btw.
 
Ok I figured it out. I have to set everything to 5.1. In game, Prelude, windows. I still have no sub but believe that is the cable not being the right kind. Hmmmm. Oh well, at least it works mostly.
 
in Window's control panel under Sound, you need to configure the speakers for "quadrophonic"
Also, make sure you tell the sound setup (i think in the audio settings using prelude software) your fronts are not "dynamic" or "full" speakers.
For game mode, I have sound outputting through Speakers with DDL enabled (and crystalizer enabled).
For entertainment mode playing movies, I set my output to SPDIF (optical) and disable DDL. this allows the movie's sound to not be processed by the sound card and instead let the receiver do it.
 
I'm using analogue connections and 4/4.1 mode works just fine for me. I prefer using the analogue because it sounds noticably better than DD Live. It SHOULD work, so make sure that you've connected the rear cable propery to the reciever and soundcard.

Because the sound implementation differs from game to game you might run into problems if you have the soundcard set to 5.1 and windows to Quad, but in Call of Duty 4 it should work if you really want to use DD Live, since it uses a software sound engine.
 
yeah analogue does not work yet. we'll see. DD causes skips and is buggy still so no to that.
 
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