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First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

I had the exact same experience as you with my old sb live card back when XP was beta! Weird. Anyway, I think my Audigy2 is working okay... perhaps you should try to reinstall the drivers? Also, run dxdiag. Good luck!
"Chuck_5" wrote:

First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

Chuck,
I have a similar setup: SB Live Audigy ZS, 5.1 Creative speakers, and the occasional pop hiss from Vista. The same configuration works in my Windows XP install on another volume. Since the Windows Vista Audigy ZS drivers from Creative are still beta themselves, they are not WHQL certified. Hence, there will still be problems. Attribute this to beta for now.
"Chuck_5" wrote:

First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

I managed to remove the pops and hisses by upping teh playback setting for that device (in my case Audigy 2 ZS).
Go to Control -> Audio Devices Click on Properties when the device is selected. Go to the Options Tab (far Right) and I had to put it on 24bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality) before I had the pops and hisses go away.
STILL no 5.1 though ... only Right, Left and Sub. ACK!
"Chuck_5" wrote:

First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

I managed to remove the pops and hisses by upping teh playback setting for that device (in my case Audigy 2 ZS).
Go to Control -> Audio Devices Click on Properties when the device is selected. Go to the Options Tab (far Right) and I had to put it on 24bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality) before I had the pops and hisses go away.
STILL no 5.1 though ... only Right, Left and Sub. ACK!
"Chuck_5" wrote:

First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

I managed to remove the pops and hisses by upping teh playback setting for that device (in my case Audigy 2 ZS).
Go to Control -> Audio Devices Click on Properties when the device is selected. Go to the Options Tab (far Right) and I had to put it on 24bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality) before I had the pops and hisses go away.
STILL no 5.1 though ... only Right, Left and Sub. ACK!

I actually got it to work at 24bit, 96000 Hz, which the sound card supports.
"StoneGut" wrote:

I managed to remove the pops and hisses by upping teh playback setting for that device (in my case Audigy 2 ZS).
Go to Control -> Audio Devices Click on Properties when the device is selected. Go to the Options Tab (far Right) and I had to put it on 24bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality) before I had the pops and hisses go away.
STILL no 5.1 though ... only Right, Left and Sub. ACK!

hi folks
posted this in several threads on this forum now. maybe somebody should merge all the Audigy 2 threads?
please follow the instructions I've posted on the Creative Forums to get fully-functional multi-channel, positional and EAX audio in Vista x64:
http://tinyurl.com/mwduw
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First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

sorry about the double post
"Chuck_5" wrote:

First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

I managed to remove the pops and hisses by upping teh playback setting for that device (in my case Audigy 2 ZS).
Go to Control -> Audio Devices Click on Properties when the device is selected. Go to the Options Tab (far Right) and I had to put it on 24bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality) before I had the pops and hisses go away.
STILL no 5.1 though ... only Right, Left and Sub. ACK!
"Chuck_5" wrote:

First off I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and logitch X-530 speakers with analog 3x miniplug (green, orange, black). Anyways in Vista beta 2 i cant seem to get 5.1 to work, i have xp home on a 2nd HDD and everything works fine in xp. The stereo works ok in vista (i say ok because it crackles and pops sometimes) but when set to 5.1, sound only comes out of front left and right. I've tried the automatic drivers that vista used and drivers from creative, same result.

So are here.
the same problem on my Live! 5.1, sounds came out just in the 2 front speakers.
Waiting for news from the "Creative" people.