surround 5.1 5.1 surround sound on windows 10

[TheSoyestBoi]

I've been working on trying to get surround sound working literally all day. I have a reciever, and my graphics card is a gtx 1650 super ( which as far as ive read supports 5.1 surround). I tried running cyberpunk 2077 and all 5 of my speakers were working but the back speakers were just copying my front speakers. when i open the speaker set up in windows 5.1 is greyed out. i hope this makes sense my brain has literally turned to mush after trying to fix this for literally hours

[TheSoyestBoi]

would linux support surround sound better than windows 

 

[Action_Johnson]

Are you trying to do 5.1 through HDMI ARC from the GPU? 

 

I would start with using your motherboard's audio outputs, and if that's not sufficient, do a sound card. 

[circeseye]

for 5.1 you need to use hdmi to avr
optical will work also but only basic dolby digital and dts
the hdmi needs to go into one of the avrs inputs.
 

[TheSoyestBoi]

2 hours ago, Action_Johnson said:

Are you trying to do 5.1 through HDMI ARC from the GPU? 

 

I would start with using your motherboard's audio outputs, and if that's not sufficient, do a sound card. 

the way i have things set up is an hdmi is running into my reciever frim my graphics card and from an hdmi out in the reciever i have an hdmi from the reciever to my monitor. im not sure any of my stuff has arc support

 

[TheSoyestBoi]

1 hour ago, circeseye said:

for 5.1 you need to use hdmi to avr
optical will work also but only basic dolby digital and dts
the hdmi needs to go into one of the avrs inputs.
 

waht is avr? sorry, im a little new to all this

[circeseye]

5 hours ago, TheSoyestBoi said:

waht is avr? sorry, im a little new to all this

avr is your receiver (Audio Video Receiver)

ok reading your other responce

gpu to avr (receiver) to monitor....ok
is it a 5.1 avr?
if it is a 5.1 and windows has 5.1 greyed out you dont have your avr set up right. it sounds like you have it set as stereo and its set to mirror to rears. not sure what brand or model you have but its usually just a push of a button on the remote to set it to a 5.1 setting

[TheSoyestBoi]

9 hours ago, circeseye said:

avr is your receiver (Audio Video Receiver)

ok reading your other responce

gpu to avr (receiver) to monitor....ok
is it a 5.1 avr?
if it is a 5.1 and windows has 5.1 greyed out you dont have your avr set up right. it sounds like you have it set as stereo and its set to mirror to rears. not sure what brand or model you have but its usually just a push of a button on the remote to set it to a 5.1 setting

the receiver is set to the right setting. the issue is that windows wont let me switch from stereo to 5.1

 

[BuzzingBee]

Is there any other AVR or monitor listed in your sound's output device? If so then try to search each of them and see which one supports 5.1 surround and disable all others to avoid any confusion.

 

Normally by connecting from GPU to AVR by HDMI cable it should automatically detect format support including 5.1 surround. If nothing works you could try reinstall your graphics driver. 

[TheSoyestBoi]

11 hours ago, BuzzingBee said:

Is there any other AVR or monitor listed in your sound's output device? If so then try to search each of them and see which one supports 5.1 surround and disable all others to avoid any confusion.

 

Normally by connecting from GPU to AVR by HDMI cable it should automatically detect format support including 5.1 surround. If nothing works you could try reinstall your graphics driver. 

it says my monitor is the sound device

[circeseye]

37 minutes ago, TheSoyestBoi said:

it says my monitor is the sound device

no...your audio needs to be set to your avr not your monitor. thats why 5.1 is greyed out.
whats weird is you said your going gpu to avr and avr to monitor. comp "shouldnt" detect the monitor. even if set to pass through on avr

what brand and model avr do you have?

 

[TheSoyestBoi]

13 hours ago, circeseye said:

no...your audio needs to be set to your avr not your monitor. thats why 5.1 is greyed out.
whats weird is you said your going gpu to avr and avr to monitor. comp "shouldnt" detect the monitor. even if set to pass through on avr

what brand and model avr do you have?

 

its an rca. its a somewhat older unit. i think the model is rt2911

[BuzzingBee]

It looks like a budget HT system, and I couldn't find a manual for it. I did find manual for similar product RT2906 and there's not much information about HDMI sound. My best guess is your AVR doesn't support 5.1 PCM which explains why 5.1 option is greyed out.

 

At this point if you really want surround sound on your PC there's two ways. One is to buy new surround system whether it's PC speakers or new AVR. If you go for new AVR get a well known brand like Denon, Marantz, Yamaha, Pioneer etc. Another way is to buy a sound card that is capable of decoding Dolby Digital Live (DDL) and use optical cable to your current AVR. I strongly prefer first option as DDL has too much sound latency. 

[CerealExperimentsLain]

1 hour ago, BuzzingBee said:

At this point if you really want surround sound on your PC there's two ways. One is to buy new surround system whether it's PC speakers or new AVR. If you go for new AVR get a well known brand like Denon, Marantz, Yamaha, Pioneer etc. Another way is to buy a sound card that is capable of decoding Dolby Digital Live (DDL) and use optical cable to your current AVR. I strongly prefer first option as DDL has too much sound latency. 

You can get 'modified' drivers for most onboard RealTek chips that enable DDL.  The chips all support DDL in hardware but there's no software license so the legit drivers refuse it.

I have DDL running from optical out of my Asus TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING for example.  This required some 'modified' drivers as well as a breakout bracket that connects to the SPDIF header on the mobo.  The bracket is a single output but does both SPDIF and TOSLINK concurrently.

 

 

[TheSoyestBoi]

7 hours ago, BuzzingBee said:

It looks like a budget HT system, and I couldn't find a manual for it. I did find manual for similar product RT2906 and there's not much information about HDMI sound. My best guess is your AVR doesn't support 5.1 PCM which explains why 5.1 option is greyed out.

 

At this point if you really want surround sound on your PC there's two ways. One is to buy new surround system whether it's PC speakers or new AVR. If you go for new AVR get a well known brand like Denon, Marantz, Yamaha, Pioneer etc. Another way is to buy a sound card that is capable of decoding Dolby Digital Live (DDL) and use optical cable to your current AVR. I strongly prefer first option as DDL has too much sound latency. 

oh, okay. thanks!

[gurubuzz]

Does your receiver have 5.1 analog input?

You could try to switch to the Mobo audio and use 3 cables to go into the analog inputs of the receiver.

 

[gurubuzz]

The 5.1 analog outputs will only show up once you have them physically connected. It's a cheap option to try first.