Issues with 5.1 Surround Sound with Windows 10

Anonymous
2019-06-25T18:59:15+00:00

I can not get 5.1 Surround Sound to play for my computer with any audio player; i.e. DVD/CD optical drive, Pandora, etc. but when I run an audio test using the device manager it tests perfectly.  I have heard that there might be a compatibility issue with 5.1/7.1 Surround Sound and Windows 10.

Please let me know if anybody has had this problem and what the solution is.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-11-18T02:06:28+00:00

    Hello,

    just to share my experience with 5.1 in windows 10.

    at first im also having issue where i only get 2 speakers working even my sub is not working.

    so what I did was to go to my Motherboard's support page and downloaded the latest drivers for my realtek builtin soundcard. and then a "Realtek Audio Console" App was installed and did the setup there.

    then i found this option "Speaker Fill creates a virtual......." make sure you enable it. and do a PC restart.

    then after doing all this are are working great. even Spotify is surround now.

    just that the videos/music from browser is still only on stereo. but Netflix, VLC, Games are all surround.

    hope this helps.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-30T22:02:57+00:00

    Only in movies. Not music....which is what this thread is about.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-11T18:11:10+00:00

    Seems Windows 10 is struggling with sound and voice job. Past versions windows explorer made a crash when I wanted to use a bluetooth mic and I could never had a mic, now discovered this... Funny is as you see in the pic, my Home Cinema perfectly passes dolby and DTS tests here, but Realtek tests, musics, games or movies can not make it sound. I can use the 3.5 mm jack to just makem all work as a stero and set the settings of the home theatre to simulate 5.1, but still not the thing we are spending money for. Waste. Windows do yo thang or if it's realtek makem do them thangs

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-16T15:59:05+00:00

    Thank you.  If I still had my speakers I'd give this a try.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-03-06T14:25:06+00:00

    5.1 sound

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