5.1 sub dead in Windows 10

[Kuarinofu]

I have a basic issue when my 5.1 system will work perfectly fine when watching 5.1 surround sound films in VLC for example (connected with 3 separate 3.5 mm), but when trying to listen to any other video or audio in Chrome or foobar2000 in stereo the sub will never work, thus cutting all the low freq. 

 

I tried two different sound cards (mb built-in Realtek and pcie Xonar SE), tried the swap LFE/center options in drivers of both of these cards but sub still refuses to play anything and is completely silent.

 

It works in Windows if I connect it through toslink but then my system loses true 5.1 since it has no 5.1 decoder on it's own.

 

I can theoretically use two connections separately, one for films and one for other audio (just constantly swapping), but I just wanted to ask maybe someone had this problem and has already found a workaround.

 

I searched the forum and found a similar one, but I've already used the bass swap driver option suggested there and it didn't work.