5.1 Gaming in boot camp?

[Geosphere]

Hello

I have been looking about for ages for info on 5.1 gaming in windows xp/vista on a mac pro (2008). But I cant seem to get a yes or no answer? On the apple forum a guy says no it cant be done only dvds yet other people say yes with optic out it works. Or maybe with a pcie soundcard for windows.

But again no one says yes or no. I would love if some one could tell me yes or no. I will prob buy z5500 speakers anyway to just even use for dvds/my ps3 but would love some 5.1 gaming in bootcamp.



I really hope some one can help or point me to some more info.

Thank you

 

[XianPalin]

From what I can tell, optical still works under XP, but only as a stereo system, not surround 5.1. I'd been looking into it for a while too thinking about the Z5500s but I think I'm gonna save the money and buy a nice 2.1 set.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/423024/

Last page of that thread has a few people talking about how the optical works in Windows, but only displays as stereo.

I think it would work if Apple put out some new drivers, but until then the 5.1 won't work under Windows.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/5039709/ for the specific post.

 

[Supaklaw]

Yes 5.1 works... once you have the realtek sound driver installed, it sees your optical out. What I can't control in Windows that I can control on the Mac side is shutting off the tower's speaker and simply use my external optical speakers... even after selecting digital out, the internal speaker still kicks in.

 

[Geosphere]

hmm good to know I ordered speakers last night should be here Friday so i can play around with it . Dose the mac have any kind of bios to disable on board speaker? if nto guess you could unplug the speakers unless its built into motherboard...


anyway thanks guys I hope I can get it working.