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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: delphium on October 17, 2013, 05:11:05 pm
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Installed a new X79S-UP5-WiFi board using the F4 BIOS, it uses the Realtek ALC 898 audio chipset, with drivers and Realtek audio manager installed and loaded, I am unable to get Dolby Digital Live to work as I had previously managed to do so on the older Realtek ALC 889 chipset that was used on my x58 board.
I have a set of 5.1 digital speakers that I connect to my PC via an optical cable, in order for 5.1 to work Dobly digital Live is required for games, sadly without this audio is only in 2 channel stereo.
Am I missing something here, surely a newer chipset would support the features of the old, and possibly more?
EDIT:- I am using the R3.75 drivers from...
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4287#dl
ftp://download.gigabyte.ru/driver/mb_driver_audio_realtek_azalia_x79_170.zip
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Many thanks in advance for any information provided.
Cheers,
Delphium
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I don't know if this will help
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,11799.0.html
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Answer from Gigabyte support:-
"Dear Sir,
X79S-UP5-wifi doesn’t support Dolby and DTS."
This is somewhat disappointing considering the ALC898 is a newer chipset than the ALC889 I previously used.
According to the GA-X79-UD5 specs, it also uses the ALC898 chipset which does support Dolby, so this can hardly be a hardware limitation as Gigabyte support suggests.
In my searching however I can see there are attempts to work around this with modded drivers "Realtek/Soundmax Modds + SB X-fi MB"
If I get it working I will post my results.
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Well, some kind folks over at TechPowerUp were able to provide a working set of unlocked Realtek drivers for this, all installed and working with both DTS Interactive and Dobly Digital Live (DDL) working and being detected by my amp with all 6 discrete channels working over optical.