Hercules GT XP ... how to set up surround sound?
I just bought a Hercules Game Theater XP card and Monsoon MM2000 speakers, and I';m running Win2k Pro. I downloaded and installed the latest drivers (2.1 i think).
In the XP driver console I set the speakers to "6" and the speaker test will play in all 5 speakers.
However, when I boot up Quake 3 (or Thief 2 or Half Life) I only get the front speakers. Also, I get only the front speakers from winamp playing mp3's or cds.
I set the speaker settings in the "sound and multimedia" palette of win2k to "5.1 surround".
What really got me bent out of shape is this: I was playing an mp3 in Winamp and the rear speakers had no sound... I opened the windows sound palette mentioned above and saw that the speakers were set to "desktop". I set them to "5.1 surround" and suddenly all the speakers were playing. Sweet! Yet after that song was over, the next one reverted to the 2 speaker thing. I jacked with all the settings, even replayed the same song, but could not get the rear speakers to come back to life. ARGH!
I spent some time scouring this forum, but can find no explanation of how to set up 3D sound with the Hercules. How do I do this?