5.1 audio support in Bioshock and/or TF2
My Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS has a stereo output jack labeled Center/Subwoofer. The left (white) channel is for the center speaker and the right (red) channel is for the sub. The center channel works just fine but I don't hear anything in the sub channel when playing either Bioshock or TF2, even when I have "5.1" selected in the audio options.
I'm curious if anyone else has a 5.1 setup similar to mine and, if so, if their sub if working in either of these games. Note that I'm running Vista (on that hard drive, at least) and when I use the built-in test utility where you click on each speaker to hear it, I do hear bass from the sub when I click it's icon. So this makes me wonder if these games truly support 5.1 (the .1 is the sub) or if they're just 5 channel (center, front left, front right, rear left, rear right).
Red is microphone. I believe Orange is sub.
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No, the microphone is pink. The mic is working so I'm certain of that.
I'm also confident that my wiring is correct, since the Vista test (with the speaker icons) made a sound on the center channel speaker when I clicked that icon, and it made a sound on the sub when I clicked that icon.
My question is for anyone running a 5.1 system on their PC who has either Bioshock or TF2 installed. Is your sub working in these games with 5.1 selected in-game?
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I ran the BioShock demo and run TF2 all the time with no surround problems. I am under XP though which does change the landscape somewhat. Are you able to run Creative Mixer under Windows Vista? I used to run an Audigy 2 (now on X-Fi which was a mistake) and I know that Creative's mixer had its own speaker setting that would override the game.
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Yes, no problems using completely onboard audio.
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