5.1 sound with 7.1 speakers

I'm trying to get 5.1 sound through my av reciever which has a 7.1 setup. I have an onkyo HT-R580 and the Fatal1ty Pro. I'm getting all the sound I want but the rear speaker sounds are coming out of the side speakers. I'm getting proper sound with all my other devices (ps3, xbox 360, tv receiver, and even the av receiver itself), so I know its a problem on my computer. I have windows 7 with all the updates and all updated drivers for the sound card. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

Ah, so you are using an Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Series, PCIe!? Sry, on the source i looked before I couldn't found any Fatal1ty Pro than XtremeGamer, but you could have written that already a bit more detailed before. Sure the Titanium has optical output - either i wouldn't recommend that card and output, maybe just in rare cases because:
- No Titanium card can even decode any Dolby/DTS, just Titanium HD can Encode DDL/DTSC .
- As i said optical only provides 5.1 so anything else just can be upmixed with an 7.1 receiver.
- Optical ( <a title="6Mbits" target="_self" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony/Philips_Digital_Interface#Zukunft">6 Mbit/s[/url] under special conditions) doesn't have enough Bandwith for Dolby True HD (<a title="18Mbits" target="_self" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD">18 Mbit/s[/url]) and DTS-HD Master (<a title="24.5Mbits" target="_self" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Theater_Systems_High_Definition">24,5 Mbit/s[/url]). Here you would need Analog (even <a title="Intel HD-A 48Mbits" target="_self" href="http://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/sites/com/0912201.htm">Intel HD-A provides 48Mbit[/url] on stereo) or HDMI (yet only <a title="1.3a X-FIs" target="_self" href="http://geizhals.eu/?cat=sndpci&sort=artikel&bpmax=&asuch= dts&asd=on&v=e&plz=&dist=&filt er=+Liste+aktualisieren+&xf=994_PCIe~1217_24bi t%2F192kHz">1.3a X-FIs[/url] are available so <a title="8.16Bits" target="_self" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Definition_Multimedia_Interface">8,16 Gbit/s[/url] shared with video).
So what are your settings on your PC? You should set 5.1 and let the receiver upmix it to 7.1. Anything else can't work. Check also: [url=http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/X-Fi-Titanium-Fatal1ty-Pro-Series-Optical-Out-Connection/m-p/586189#M163016">http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/X-Fi-Titanium-Fatal1ty-Pro-Series-Optical-Out-Connection/m-p/586189#M163016[/url]

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