quantum112

Hey, thank you for the reply. I have already tried those drivers - but just to make sure I've deinstalled all drivers and from add/remove and the device and everything from device manager and dl'd the ones you told me again and installed them, it didn't help. But I think i have a clearer vision of the problem - I have tried playback of some music using only the rear speakers. They seem to be a lot louder when the other speakers' volume is turned down (no it's not just me I know I can hear them across the room when everything else is off and when it's not I barely hear them when I put my ear on them. Also, the sound coming from the rear speakers seems very distant, not to mention very muffly and low bitrate - kinda like when you record a video with your cellphone and post it on youtube. On the front and center speakers everything is very clear. It almost seems that it's sending some kind of a low-bitrate echo through the rear speakers and this is not true 5.1. Note: I can only get any sound on my rear speakers when using the speaker fill option - without it there's no sound on the rear ones at all, so I'm guessing this option is kind of spreading out the sound across all the speakers but it's not true 5.1 surround. I mean I know it isn't, I can tell the difference between the sound of the music playing on the rear speakers and the speaker test. On the speaker test they sound like any other speaker - it seems like none of the applications realise this is a 5.1 setup or maybe the drivers even though configured for 6 channels are not putting out all of the channels out to the speakers and that's why I only get sound with this echo filling option that kind of emulates real actual surround.
Is there any way around it cause I really don't know what to do, I don't know much about sound. Thank you.