Ok, so my 5.1 surround sound kit has been wired up in the living room for a while now. . . and has hardly been used!
I got an idea when I changed my old soundcard (audigy 1 - years old!) to the realtek 7.1 card that came with the motherboard, and i noticed it has an SPDIF port on the back.
If you haven't guessed, I quickly moved the big fat surround system into the bedroom and rigged it up with the computer
. This works fine and sounds awesome although I've a couple of problems I was wanting to ask you all about.
I've connected up using a digi optical cable, SPDIF out on computer to SPDIF IN on the surround kit. I've noticed a slightly delay when gaming, which can be rather annoying. Usually in quick gunfights the gunfire is completely out of sync with the action ingame, but once the game moves back to a 'normal' pace it goes back to being synced up. Is there any way to stop this? The other thing was, when I run the realtek 'surround' test, which is basically a bee buzzing around the user, supposedly coming out of ALL the surround speakers after each other, to simulate a real bee buzzing around the room, I only get sound from the front left/front right speakers, nothing from the centre or surrounds. When I play music tho I get it from everywhere! Bit confused here, If anyone has any insight I'd be really grateful. Thanks a lot. D
I got an idea when I changed my old soundcard (audigy 1 - years old!) to the realtek 7.1 card that came with the motherboard, and i noticed it has an SPDIF port on the back.
If you haven't guessed, I quickly moved the big fat surround system into the bedroom and rigged it up with the computer
. This works fine and sounds awesome although I've a couple of problems I was wanting to ask you all about. I've connected up using a digi optical cable, SPDIF out on computer to SPDIF IN on the surround kit. I've noticed a slightly delay when gaming, which can be rather annoying. Usually in quick gunfights the gunfire is completely out of sync with the action ingame, but once the game moves back to a 'normal' pace it goes back to being synced up. Is there any way to stop this? The other thing was, when I run the realtek 'surround' test, which is basically a bee buzzing around the user, supposedly coming out of ALL the surround speakers after each other, to simulate a real bee buzzing around the room, I only get sound from the front left/front right speakers, nothing from the centre or surrounds. When I play music tho I get it from everywhere! Bit confused here, If anyone has any insight I'd be really grateful. Thanks a lot. D
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