So I picked up an Audigy 2, got it hooked up to my receiver .. Originally my Denon's DD5.1 would never come on. Finally I figured out that my Radeon installed some retarded software AC3 decoder that was screwing things up. After I installed AC3Filter as my primary decoder and set it to SPDIF passthrough, I can get a proper 5.1 signal from DVD's and a couple VOB demos.

However, I grabbed some of Microsoft's WMP9 5.1 demo videos, and none of then turn on the 5.1 light on my receiver and it sounds likere's no discrete left/right in the rear channel (sounds like pro logic or something). Has anyone run into this before? My WinXP sound config is set to 5.1 speakers, my audigy is set to SPDIF passthrough, in speaker settings it's set to 5.1 speakers. Did I mention it's RIDICULOUS how many places there are to configure sound and speaker settings? It appears that this is both Windows and Creative's fault -- gotta be one of the worst sets of UI's I've ever seen ... There are just tons of layers of dialogs and they ALL have slightly different settings.

Any help would be greatly appreciated ...

ms