Cantisque
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Hi all,
Not sure where to post this really, but allow me to explain the situation.
I have a PC connected to a Sony AV receiver.
The AMD HD 6670 that was previously in it gave up the ghost in that the HDMI jack appears to be busted (the DisplayPort jack works fine on my other monitor). I replaced it with an Nvidia GTX 660.
Works great, except the audio. I have a 5.1 setup, on my old GPU I could tick the "speaker fill" box in the Windows 7 sound settings which would upmix stereo sources to fill all the sound channels. Unfortunately, this box is no longer present.
This wouldn't be so bad if it also didn't totally ignore my subwoofer as well. Windows knows it's there, you can test it and it will make the thudding noise if you click it in the sound config, but any stereo source from any media player will just ignore it completely and simply stick to the front left/right speakers.
The only way around it is to set the AV receiver itself to stereo mode, this allows the bass to come back.
I've tried searching for workarounds to the missing "speaker fill" box but I can't see anything that I can understand or is related directly to my issue. Ideally I would like some sort of software that upmixes everything on the fly but I don't know if that's possible or will cause unwanted latency.
Again, the speakers all respond correctly in the Windows sound menu when you test them, so the basic configuration is set up correctly and when a 5.1 source is presented, this works fine.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Edit: I am a noob when it comes to this sort of thing, don't be afraid to point out any obvious suggestions, as there's a good chance I may have missed it!
Not sure where to post this really, but allow me to explain the situation.
I have a PC connected to a Sony AV receiver.
The AMD HD 6670 that was previously in it gave up the ghost in that the HDMI jack appears to be busted (the DisplayPort jack works fine on my other monitor). I replaced it with an Nvidia GTX 660.
Works great, except the audio. I have a 5.1 setup, on my old GPU I could tick the "speaker fill" box in the Windows 7 sound settings which would upmix stereo sources to fill all the sound channels. Unfortunately, this box is no longer present.
This wouldn't be so bad if it also didn't totally ignore my subwoofer as well. Windows knows it's there, you can test it and it will make the thudding noise if you click it in the sound config, but any stereo source from any media player will just ignore it completely and simply stick to the front left/right speakers.
The only way around it is to set the AV receiver itself to stereo mode, this allows the bass to come back.
I've tried searching for workarounds to the missing "speaker fill" box but I can't see anything that I can understand or is related directly to my issue. Ideally I would like some sort of software that upmixes everything on the fly but I don't know if that's possible or will cause unwanted latency.
Again, the speakers all respond correctly in the Windows sound menu when you test them, so the basic configuration is set up correctly and when a 5.1 source is presented, this works fine.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Edit: I am a noob when it comes to this sort of thing, don't be afraid to point out any obvious suggestions, as there's a good chance I may have missed it!