Originally published at: Fix: Channel Surround Sound Not Working in Windows 11/10
The surround sound feature on windows 11 might not function properly for many reasons; it might be due to a faulty configuration of settings or a false driver installation. It might as well be a hardware issue. Channel Surround Sound is not working in Windows 11 Before jumping right into the solutions bit, we’ll look…
I tried everything to get mine to fill the rear speakers and then I found the
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB5 Application
this is all thats missing…omg why was this so hard?!!
Check this out:
got mine to work by clicking “configure” with my audio device, setting it to 5.1 surround, disabling rear speakers, and unchecking both boxes under “full-range speakers.” also enabled speaker fill and bass management in enhancements"
IF that doesn’t work.
RIght-click on the speaker icon and select “Open Sound Settings”.
Then click on “Sound Control Panel”.
Double click on the speaker/headphone that is currently being used and click on “Advanced”.
From there click on the Default Format dropdown and select “24bit-96000HZ” option
First of all try this:
“got mine to work by clicking “configure” with my audio device, setting it to 5.1 surround, disabling rear speakers, and unchecking both boxes under “full-range speakers.” also enabled speaker fill and bass management in enhancements”
IF that doesn’t work.
RIght-click on the speaker icon and select “Open Sound Settings”.
Then click on “Sound Control Panel”.
Double click on the speaker/headphone that is currently being used and click on “Advanced”.
From there click on the Default Format dropdown and select “24bit-96000HZ” option.
For those who have a Denon receiver (I have X1500H) under the colored buttons you can select different sound modes. In my case I have Multi ch in and Multi ch stereo among other options under the red music button on the remote. The first one allows you to stream separate channel streams and the latter plays everything over the front speakers. This has caught me out multiple times when trying to setup my speakers using REW.
So if nothing else works, give the above a try.
i have the same problem bro !
replay you found the solution .
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Thank you very much for the info, unfortunately it did not help much, BUT was great learning where everything was.
SO here is my dilemma:
I have a Gigabyte Auorus MoBo, X570 Master v1.2 with built in Realtek chipset, I believe it is ACL12200, only a couple months old (Jan '22)
I have a Creative Labs 5.1 Surround system that is older than dirt, I’d say it is a 1st Gen
Works great, love it
When I run the Realtek test and Windows Test, I get sound out of all speakers, true 5.1 surround sound.
AAC Multichannel from https://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/AAC/multichannel.html works great too (I have sensitive hearing so some of the sounds are a bit, unnerving)
But when I do any of the tests from YouTube, when they test the rear channels it comes out the front
Also, some of the apps I use are configured for Dolby 5.1 Surround and I do not get it from them. The way I figured this out what I opened the Windows Sound > Speakers > Property > Levels and I turn down Front and Center to 0 and I lose almost all sound.
Any suggestion? I saw in one comment someone said try the R73 version of the Realtek driver.
thanks for you response but I found out that my device wasn’t working properly
Nothing I found online would work for me. What did work was to turn off the entire 5.1 sound system and turn it back on.
got mine to work by clicking “configure” with my audio device, setting it to 5.1 surround, disabling rear speakers, and unchecking both boxes under “full-range speakers.” also enabled speaker fill and bass management in enhancements
i have the same problem…my laptop is connected to my tv with hdmi cable…and tv is connected to 5.1 surround hometheatre with another hdmi cable…bt i cant see any option to choose 5.1 surround…as 5.1 and 7.1 tab showing disable and faded…have tried all the methods…googled 4 months bt no solution
that’s exactly the problem I’ve got right now. Did you find any solution?
Method 1: A Win10 update, between 9/13/18 (date of this article) and now (12/7/18) has removed the Enhancements tab and added “Spatial Sound.” You have the option of OFF, Dolby Atmos for Headphones, or Windows Sonic for Headphones. None of which help bring back my Subwoofer, Center, and Rear speakers. Only the front left and front right work.
I just got a brand new Z906 Logitech and I have tried everything. Unplug, switch this and that. I just can’t seem to get any sounds for all the speakers not sure if it’s a defect on the product but they work fine when I do testing on the actual console of the Logitech.
You can’t trust that the YT streams are actually encoded to play surround properly. I discovered this after trying to fix what wasn’t broken for longer than I would like to admit. If the fraunhofer download works properly, then it’s working, and what you’re listening to in not encoded for surround. Nothing to fix.
I had an issue with my center channel not working on my computer. Not it the test tones or anything else. I tried everything, updated drivers didn’t work, running mono produced sound but it was crappy, not even a new sound card worked. I finally went into seeing and said the speaker wasn’t available in my setup. Now the center speaker works!
This works! Thank you!
What I did to solve this issue was Install R73 version of the realtek drivers. Then in the Realtek HD Audio Manager I clicked Device Advanced Settings.
In that window, it was just as simple as as clicking “Make front and rear output devices playback two different audio streams”
The other option, which is on by default, is “Mute the rear output device, when a front headphone plugged in” and that seems to be the source of all the issues. As I noticed that even before, the sound bar in Windows Sound control panel would move when the rear speakers were getting sound, but no sound was being heard. None of the speakers were muted that I could see.
I think W10 update 1809 in October 2018 also resets all those Enhancement settings, because after updating my rear channels stopped working. Again. (Creative 5.1 from about 10 years ago plugged into a 2016 MSI mobo). Re-enabling them worked for me though. Oh well!
Spent hours trying to solve that surround issue, But after trying Method 1 i finally Solved the problem but instead of Speaker Fill i checked the box Bass Management and suddenly my 5.1 started working, Thank you