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Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - tjcinnamon - 2012-05-17
I'm curious if getting a Sound Card would be worth it. Currently, I'm running audio through my HD 6850 and it sounds good via XBMC but I can't get 5.1 on PC games (resident evil 5).
What do you run? Is a discrete sound card worth the money?
Thanks,
JOe K.
RE: Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - sialivi - 2012-05-17
I ditched my discrete card and just use HDMI which is the only way to bitstream dts-hd ma and truehd
RE: Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - natethomas - 2012-05-17
You should be able to get 5.1 on PC games via HDMI, assuming you are using Windows and the HD 6850, because that's my exact setup, and I have 5.1 on (e.g.) skyrim no problem.
RE: Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - tjcinnamon - 2012-05-17
Yeah, 7x64 pro. However, on resident evil 5 I'm not getting it. On my receiver it says all channels meaning it's mono in the center, right and right rear is right channel and left and left rear is left channel. Basically giving me 2.0
My receiver is an Onkyo RC360
RE: Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - sialivi - 2012-05-17
Have you set the number of speakers in windows sound settings?
RE: Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - tjcinnamon - 2012-05-18
Yeah, I put it to 5.1
Do I need to install the Realtek drivers AND the AMD HDMI drivers? Currently, I just have the AMD HDMI Audio drivers
RE: Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - bluray - 2012-05-18
@tjcinnamon,
Have you update AMD latest driver from here- AMD Driver Autodetect?
If the latest AMD driver still don't work, you can try Realtek HD codecs- High Definition Audio Codecs.........
RE: Soundcard, On Board or HDMI thorough Audio? What do you use? - tjcinnamon - 2012-05-18
I figured it out for RE5. I needed to set my receiver at multi-channel because it wasn't exclusively receiving a DTS signal. It's kinda weird I have to switch back and forth for movies and games but worth it none the less.
Regarding AMD audio. I had to install the 12.4a hotfix to get reliable HDMI audio about the beginning of the month.