blazin-asian

hey guys, so here is the deal:

i recently "upgraded" my Audigy 2 Platinum to an XFi XtremeMusic. i currently have my Wii and LCD TV hooked up to my sound card to my speakers.

here is how everything is connected (bear with me here ):

Wii: component cables from TV to Wii, red and white audio are plugged into a component to stereo jack (Y cable)

TV: the tv is hooked up via composite red and white to stereo (another Y cable)

both Y cables are hooked up to a splitter so that my one line in can process both at the same time.

all speakers worked with the Audigy 2, but no longer with the XFi.

what the f happened??

here is how everything is plugged into my XFi

[_____] [_____] [_____] [_____]
Line In Green Black Orange

i have a 6.1 speaker setup hooked up to it.

help would be GREATLY appreciated so i can watch tv and play Wii in surround sound again

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noobdown

are you sure you dont have a 5.1 or 7.1?

did you check all the volume levels and made sure the line in jack is not muted?

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Munchkinpuncher

Also when you check your volume meters, make sure it didnt default back to "stereo" setup. For some reason my defaults back to that on a new driver installation.

blazin-asian

im positive its a 6.1 cuz it says so on the box technically, its a 5.1 since i dont use my rear center channel.

i have set 5.1 in Creative Audio Console and vista speaker setup.

and everything is plugged in correctly. i will only get sound out of my front channels and not the back. its annoying as hell!

i noticed that the XFi doesnt handle 2 inputs very well. the Wii will come out the left channel and the TV will come out the right.

wth?

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triggerc

That's a known surround sound issue with X-Fi under Vista... They haven't gotten around to fixing that yet.

blazin-asian

man....are you serious? so basically i should have just stuck with my Audigy 2?

creative not getting around to fixing something pretty means im SOL, huh

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Munchkinpuncher

I wasnt getting surround on my audigy 2zs in vista so Im using my onbaord

blazin-asian

man, thats so depressing. onboard > xfi ?

thx for the help man

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Munchkinpuncher

my onboard sounds better than my audigy at least in vista. And we have same mobo. GL

dralb

I had an issue with XP 64 and surround not working. It would use the front 2 speakers for front and rear and not use the sub. I had to aquire the X-Fi suite via torrent as my card was OEM and the disk didn't have it. I found another version (not sure if I got it via another torrent or from creatives site. There seem to be more drivers there since the last time I checked)

Not sure if this will help or not, but it fixed my problems.

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