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*Note: 99% of sound cards will not output a 5.1 channel Dolby Digital signal when playing a game. The only sound cards that will are the BlueGears X-Mystique 7.1 and some older Nforce 2 motherboards with Soundstorm onboard sound. Those two audio devices have one thing in common, Dolby Digital Live (DDL). DDL encodes all of the sounds from a PC into a Dolby Digital stream. Most sound cards, including the popular Creative Audigy and even the brand new X-Fi series will not do that. They will, however, pass through 5.1 sound from DVD’s. The bottom line, if you want to play games and transmit sound over the digital connection you need one of the sound cards just mentioned or you will only get two channel sound.
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Thank you Hi Ho! I was going crazy trying to figure out why my $200 abit fatal1ty board with 7.1 "audiomax" would NOT run surround sound through games, but my $70 nf7s would. That is the first soundcard I've found with a coax out, I've been searching for one forever! You should win a prize man.
