Windows 7 64 - SB X-fi - Only front speakers

-Windows 7-64 Ultimate
-SB X-Fi Xtreme Music
-Driver SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_8_003
Problem:
Rear?and cencer speakers are?not recogniced.

Have you went to control panel, sound, and clicked X-FI, and configure? Here you should choose 5. and do not choose full range speakers.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4072
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I am using optical audio with Sony DAV-DZ810 home theater and my Apple TV2. The system is new and I am not very familiar. When I watch a trailor (have not watched a movie yet) on ATV2, I notice that sound only comes from two front speakers only. No sound is heard from center and rear speakers.
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Normal.
Trailers do not usually have 5.1 surround.
Not all movies have 5.1 surround either - it should say or show the dolby icon on the movie preview screen and once you choose to rent it often says you are renting film x which has surround surround (or something like that).
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i've got the following Problem with my Audigy 4 Pro.
In Audi HQ->Speaker Settings im Not able to select anything besides 2. Speakers. If i click on the combobox nothing happens.
I can activate 5. in the Windows Audio settings but after a system reboot this setting is set back automatically to "Desktop speakers".
As a result i only hear Sound from my Front speakers.
(I've connected the analog 5. Teufel concept e magnum with my audigy)
The settings did work some time ago but now they doesn't (i didnt do something special besides selecting one time "headphones" as my speakers while i used them on a LAN-Party)
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XP x64, all surround speaker signals going to front speakers

Wanted to document an issue I found while trying to use my audigy 4 card with XP x64. Yes, I know you are probably looking at my spec at the bottom and asking why use XP x64. Or why after spending so much money on the pc, could you not afford a better sound card? Or why not use the on-board audio?
Well I am awaiting to upgrade the sound card until a few more HDMI enabled cards come to the marked this year. Also I wanted to play some older games that support eax (which my on-board audio does not support fully) and did not want to go through setting up the emulation stuff in Vista.
Anyway after getting the OS setup, I started looking at the sound setup and discovered that all but the two front speakers are not working. If set to 7. in audio console and windows audio panel then the signals to the side and rear speakers either don't work or come out of the front two speakers.
Odd I thought since vista, I am using on my another hard disk (I just select which HDD I want to boot from at boot), using the same driver version, the sound works perfectly (so not a hardware or cabling issue).
I tried drivers:
SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_8_000.exe
SBAX_WBUP2_LB_2_09_006.exe
SBAX_PCDRVBETA_US_2_8_000.exe
In that order. All gave the same results. Did the normal things like driver cleaning etc.
Then just for a laugh after hearing about old resolved issues with the drivers on systems with more than 4 Gb's of Ram, I removed some of my memory. And low and behold when only one? of the 3 channels of 2 Gb of memory is installed then it all works, full surround is back. But with 2 channels for a total of 4 Gb or 3 channels for a total of 6Gb of ram, I get this problem of only getting sound from the front two speakers.
When I get the time I will try installing XP x32 to see if it not being able to all of my memory will help. Will post if it makes any difference.
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Message Edited by ph0b0s23 on 0-29-2009 0:5 [email protected]

@Re: XP x64, all surround speaker signals going to front speakers& Same hell to me with my old Audigy 2 Value. Rear was redirected to front, and center was upmixed with front, all in 5. nati've mode. Stereo surround worked well although. In my old mobo, Asrock Dual Sata 2 had an option to disable the 4Gb ram detection. Although I had 3Gb, with this option disabled I only accessed 2,8 Gb, no big deal. I survi'ved. But with my new Asus M3A32-MVP there was no option to disable 4Gb detection, and for that, the issue is always present in XP x64.
It's driver compatibility with XP x64. That's all. Audigy driver can't handle it in XP x64. In Vista/7 is fixed, but not in Windows XP x64 Edition. I tried the same steps that you did, with the same results. XP 32 bit worked well, because it also didn't recognize the full RAM.
The funny thing is I contacted CL tech support and they said all worked well for them. Furthermore EAX effects doesn't wok either (check F.E.A.R. for example).
Sorry, CL tech support HAS TO fix this. I don't know why they have forgotten XP x64 users.

Sticky This : Surround Sound coming out of front speakers and Subwoofer not work

The problem with Creative forum moderators and the like is that they have used their products so often that they forget the basic really simplistic things and as a result have a lot of frustrated customers (As indicated by the number of?problem posts?when this really need not be the case)?After building myself a media center with Windows XP (Yes the best DVD backup software is made for XP) my?X-Fi card Surround, Centre and Front Speakers were all mapped together for sound. After searching through the forums at many unanswered posts with similar problems I eventually came across the answer a few months back after a few days of reading this forums posts. The problem arises because of the Windows default settings which need to be changed when insatalling the sound card. Which I believe a good driver should be doing anyway. This is the menu path:StartControl PanelSounds and Audio DevicesAudioAdvancedPerformanceHardware Acceleration slide indicator should be on Full, then Apply?At this stage I got all the Speakers to work independently except the Subwoofer?I am not one to sit and study a user manual comprehensi'vely before attempting installation. I normally look for any serious warnings or precautions adhere to them and then slap the thing in and usually everything just happens in the correct sequence or that is how it should be with a new piece of hardware anyway. I use the manual more for problem solving. Anyways my point is that I have not read the manual in depth yet but all must be aware that you need?4-part jacks to get the most out of your?X-Fi sound card. The extra?points are required?in the Center/Subwoofer and Rear Speaker jacks because the extra connections within these jacks are used for SPDIF out on the Center/Subwoofer Jack and Side speakers for your 7. system on the rear speaker jack. (I dunno why they don't just put in 2 extra jacks that are the normal 3-part jacks .....or perhaps it's a way to force you to buy creative speakers which come with very rare?4-part jacks)?The subwoofwer can only be made to work if you pull out the 3-part jack just enough to make the correct contact with the card that gives you subwoofer signal.

@tryignan ,
Hello and thank you for posting on the HP support forum. I have one question have you tried doing a system restore back to before this problem started. Something has updated or changed in the drivers or Operating system to cause this.
Have you removed both audio drivers and just ran with the AMD audio driver.
Now did you try this when you removed your drivers. Try booting into safemode and remove the two audio drivers.
Download your software and drivers for your system and save to dvd or usb memory stick.
Run the Recovery manager to restore software and drivers to factory spec.
Using Recovery Manager to Restore Software and Drivers (Windows 8)
Now if that fails try doing the full Windows 8 recovery.
Performing an HP system recovery (Windows 8)
Please post back and let me know if this was of any help.
Thank you again for posting and have a great day and a happy new year.
Please click the "Thumbs Up" on the bottom right of this post to say thank you if you appreciate the support I provide!
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[RC1 x86] Front speakers on

Hi,
I've been searching the whole Internet for a solution to the following problem. As from yesterday I've installed Microsoft Windows Vista? RC2 (Build 5744, x86).
Installing Creative-drivers worked fine. I downloaded them from the Creative-support site and noticed that I already was able to listen to music, even without having to reboot my machine as the installer requested.
But, I only hear sound coming from my two front-speakers. I've read a lot of topics on this forum, but didn't see a similar problem with Vista X86 (!!). I ain't the only one having this problem, am I?
Someone, help me? Do I need to wait till the next Creative Driver-update or is there a solution/workaround? When I use the configure-option in the Sound-configurationscreen and I select 7., i hear a testsound coming from every speaker. Only Windows Media Player uses the two front-speakers.
Help?

No you are not the only one, everyone is having this..
It all to do with how vista handle audio, creative labs relies on software to up mix stereo sounds to 5./7. either EAX, CMSS ect. I think in some games and video where the orginal source is surround sound then you will get it.
Sadly at the moment everyone is waiting for creative lad to develope drivers to get this software up and running. they have had bad enough trouble to get a driver package together to enable for the sound driver to be installed so you could actually get some form of sound from your card....
Cat has given full details of how vista handles audio in her post Audio in vista (I think that the tittle)and what problems creative face...

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