Question About Gaming and 5.1 sound

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Using the Z-5500 and X-Fi Extreme Music combo. I notice that when I play games like COD4, it's hard to notice positional sound effects. Sounds that originate behind me do not sound distinctly like they're behind me. It's almost like every sound no matter where it originates from sounds the same, position wise that is. I did some testing with grenades and I found that if a grenade were to explode behind me to the left, the sound of the explosion can be heard from my rear-left and front-left speakers. Is that normal? If the sound originates behind me, shouldn't only my rear speakers be emitting sound? If I test my speakers using the Creative audio console where the female voice says "front-left, center, etc," everything seems to be in place, that is, "front-left" only emitts from the front-left speaker and the same for the rest. I currently have my speakers plugged into my sound card using the default 6 channel cable that it came with.
 
Wtf, COD4 is stereo only? Why does it have a 5.1 setting? I don't what eax has to do with positional effects. What about CS:Source?
 
no lol sorry my mistake.

um but does the extreme music actually do surround? make sure your windows sound is set to 5.1 also.
 
If COD4 uses DirectSound3D like COD and COD2 and you're running Windows Vista, then that'll probably kill the 3D positional support on the X-Fi cards. If the creative alchemy program supports COD4, then that should fix it.

See the video section on Creative Lab's alchemy site for an example of how COD (one) is screwed up on Vista audio wise without the alchemy patch:
http://www.soundblaster.com/alchemy/
http://connect.creativelabs.com/alchemy/Lists/Games/AllItems.aspx

If you're running Windows XP, then I don't know why it's borked.
Or if COD4 uses openAL, then it should work as well.
 
I am using XP. Bioshock works fine though, I get discreet audio channels.
 
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