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Audio Channels (For Windows ® Vista / Windows ® 7 only)
This setting only appears in Windows ® Vista / Windows ® 7. Windows ® Vista /
Windows ® 7 delivers the audio channels to the audio driver according to this
setting, no matter what the original audio content is or how many channels they
have. Hence, you need to set this in accordance with your audio content before
audio playback. This setting is synchronized with Windows ® Vista/7’s system
speaker configuration and changing this setting during playback stops the audio
playback program. You may have to restart the program after changing this setting.
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Audio Channels
Recommended settings:
• MP3, WMA, AAC, CD, VCD, 2D games => 2 channels
• DVD-Video with Dolby Digtial or DTS 5.1 => 6 channels
• DVD-Video with Dolby Digtial EX or DTS ES => 8 channels
• 3D games => 8 channels
Close all running applications before changing this setting.