DDTS-100 No effect.

Hello to everyone.
I have a ddts-100 decoder system and creative gigaworks S750 speakers. I connected the decoder with coaxial cable from my SB live.
My problem is that i haven't found a way to play trasnparent 5.1 sounds from my computer to the speaker system. What i mean? When i run the test of my SB card the only speakers i can hear is FL and FR. That happens because the DDTS cannot use no effect to input sound. Why is this important? Because many many games has they own effects and the decoder (as it is its work) mixes up these to all the channels. As a result the back sounds comes front and opposite.
I had another system of SB Live! and Creative Inspire 500 digital (those with the decoder-amplifier) and the decoder has the option "5.1 headphones" which plays trasparent the channels from its digital input. I say that maybe this is bad when i play music, watching tv or playback any stereo source because the only speakers that plays are the front left and right. But when you need no upmix effect, as games with EAX, it is the only way to cycle the effects as game is programmed to do.
So is the any way to bypass the DDTS-100 its effects? If no, i beleive that is useless. What to do a decoder that mixes everything as it likes?
Test: POP-Warrion Within. Stand in front of anything has sound (waterfall?) and start cycling. Listen with ddts-100 and then turn to analog, bypass ddts-100.. There is a very very big diffirence..
Sorry about my english, i am greek.
Gordona.

First of all the DDTS-100 does NOT support other than stereo analog inputs! It has 3 optical, coaxial and 3 stereo analog.
Did i miss something? I said that the other deocder that i have, Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700, supports that thing. I understand the diffirence from ac3 encoded sound but i don't mean that. I 've no problem with dolby sound, the DDTS recognizes and decode it.
There is only Digital Stereo and AC3 coded? And if that happens why the other decoder can listen and play every channel its own?
SB PCI->Digital Din-> only digital stereo?
or
coaxial-> Digital Stereo-> DDTS-100?
I really cannot understand.
Gordon`s

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