Issues with 5.1 Surround Sound with Windows 10

Your so far off the original subject matter, that I'll just put the brakes on here. I'll summarize with this one statement. Windows 10 is a conglomerate of disparate subroutines that do not do the job! Windows 7 was the crowning glory of the Windows family. Windows 10? Do an opinion search on the net and try to find many glowing reviews from  knowledgeable developers. Subject ends here for me. For the matter of Windows unable to provide workable solutions for 5.1 Surround Sound problems…  good luck with that…  ツ

The most recent two people actually said the test worked fine, it was just that streaming and watching videos didn't, which is what I was commenting on. 

If it works for 'anyone' then the underlying O/S obviously 'can' work if the application writers (ASUS in your case) can code.

Also, I find it amusing that if the ASUS written software install process doesn't work, you blame windows. The cartoon? Again, ASUS. 

When I go onto Discord, sometimes I see a cartoon of 'wumpus doesn't want to play'. Bill Gates must have been personally responsible for that travesty too then. 

If you mention a specific about Windows, then fine, then we can discuss it. But mindless ranting and a lot of adjectives don't really add much.

So in your case, the ASUS install obviously has a problem. However, my 5.1 problem turned out to be a Diamond Multimedia driver. They updated it, and then WHAM I got 5.1 - just not from Netflix. And, the driver actually came from Microsoft. They got really tired of people complaining about something they didn't do, so they fixed the other guys problem.

By the way - Oracle required us to reboot Linux servers (Oracle Linux at that) up to three times daily because "Java just naturally leaks memory." and "Of course Linux won't recover it." This was with two Senior Vice Presidents and three senior developers on the call. As the implementation partner they made it our fault as to not rebooting often enough. 

So what about Bezos only sending 2 channels? That one slipped off your radar?

I like you have compiled hours of reading and trying multiple suggestions, nothing that actually worked though! There are countless "do gooders" offering mindless solutions to misunderstood problems that sometimes I'll actually read to the end of their solutions just for entertainment! I really am astonished to think of these same people reading through a ballot initiative and expecting them to vote correctly? When I say "God help us", I really do mean it!

Hi there…  a great deal of the complaints are from the install process, we can't even test it because we can't even install it properly.

If the Speaker test worked or anything else with the INSTALL process worked i wouldn't be writing? Perhaps you should understand the problem before producing a bogus "solution wanna be"! literally 100's of other disgruntled users do?