jscott

I recently upgraded my OS from Windows ME to Windows XP Pro, and replaced my old sound card with a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 card (not digital) and Creative Inspire T5400 5.1 speaker set. The XP drivers I used are the ones that came on the Creative CD (which is dated late 2003 but the XP drivers on the Creative downloads is dated early 2003???). Anyway... When testing the speakers using the Creative Mixer, I can hear sounds from all 5 speakers (left rear, right rear, left front, right front, and center). However, standard Windows sounds, Winamp 5, PowerDVD, or any applications in Windows do NOT play sounds from the center speaker. I haven't tried any games yet since I just installed the card last night. I have Windows audio properties set to 5.1 Speakers but I cannot get any sound from the center speaker. Sound will only come from it when testing speakers in Creative Mixer. Short list of PC Specs: ASUS P2B-F mobo, no on-board audio PIII 1GHz CPU 512MB RAM WinXP Pro SP1 Hercules GeForce 3 AGP card, 64 MB RAM Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Thanks, Jon.

Never mind, finally got it working. If anyone needs to know, you have to install Creative PlayCenter (even if you'll never use it) and enable CMSS. Sounds/music from any apps now come from all speakers. Thanks, Jon.