RealTek 5.1

[Sniperstorm2]

Is anyone using onboard Realtek Audio? I am tying to figure out an issue. When I use 5.1 sound, any noises that are directly behind me come out of my center channel front speaker. It makes it hard for me to figure out if sounds are in front if me or behind me.

I also have a Creative X-FI. When I can get it to work. Any sounds that are behind me sound out of the 2 rear speakers. But the Drivers cause BSOD all the time in PR even with the PAX drivers. So I cannot use that card at all.

My question is does anyone have the same issues with Realtek? I would like to find a solution I can stop things directly behind me from coming out of my front center speaker.

[SIDEKILL3R]

BF2 don't really support 5.1

[Sniperstorm2]

BF2 don't really support 5.1

Not true. When it works the sound is perfect 5.1 on the X-FI. I just cannot get PR to load most of the time with out BSOD.

I did not BSOD on my old system just my new one.

[Prevtzer]

BF2 don't really support 5.1

Not true.

When it works the sound is perfect 5.1 on the X-FI.

Also not true. With X-Fi and Ultra High it's binaural sound, without X-Fi and Ultra High it's 5.1.

[[XSYS]E1dorado]

I did not BSOD on my old system just my new one.

What are your new system specs?

[Sniperstorm2]

E1dorado;1985114']What are your new system specs?

AMD 8350
Gigaybte GA-FX990 UD3 Motherboard
MIS 7850 2GB
16 GB Ram.

I am using onboard audio now.

Creative X-FI Card Titanium

PR is the only game with issues or BSOD. Have it set to X-FI and just High on the settings for PR.

I would be ok with my onboard audio if I could get it to stop putting sounds directly behind me in the center speaker.

[JohnnyPissoff]

Here are a few "sound" ideas:

- In bf2 sound options; set sound to hardware for the creative card or to software for your onboard audio.

- Make sure to reset or cancel onboard sound via bios depending on which application you're testing.

- In your sound mixer under speaker settings, make sure you're actually set up for 5.1 not for 6.1 or 7.1 audio playback. If that's the case it makes sense that your mixer's audio crossover may be sending center rear sound through center front. If that's not the case try cancelling your center channel altogether as this is merely a synthetic variation of discrete four channel center panning. Efficient for frequency range allocation for voice in movies but not essential for music or game sounds.

- Final step if all else fails; update audio codec drivers from realtek and/or Creative. If that's no help then go to your motherboard manufacturers site and update entire audio driver package for your specific board. Be sure to back up pertinent audio driver/codec files (copy from Realtek as well as Creative program folders and place in temp folders for each on your desktop) In other words do this final step scientifically not randomly.

Hope this helps!

[sprint113]

With your onboard audio setup, does the center channel otherwise behave normally? As in, do things in front of you come from the center channel? Does the center channel behave normally in other programs, when playing back movies with 5.1 audio. You can also test it by going to the windows sound properties window, selecting configure and having it go through each channel.

Also, does it occur when you have PR audio set to software and hardware mode?

Finally, with the X-Fi, which BSOD were you getting? I think the newer drivers that are in the PAX package that is recommended fixed one particular instance of BSOD, namely 0x50 page fault in nonpaged area. I am not sure if that covers other BSODs caused by the X-Fi, like 0x3B System Service Exception with portcls.sys. You may try to disable the xram on the card as well via registry tweak.