windows 1803 has no 5.1 spdif audio available

the same board 5.1 spdif audio works fine on windows 7.

So I am upgrading to ver 1903, will this give me 5.1 spdif audio sound
I only have stereo coming through on spdif.
I was reading up and people were complaining they had lots of sound issues with spdif in the earlier versions of 10.

on ver 1803, going to spdif properties all it lists is a selection of 2 channel audio outputs. That is where the 5.1 output should show and it is not showing.

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Does this mean it will never work in windows 10 as Microsoft made it?
claims its using hdaudio.sys

If it does not work in win10, how can I get working 5.1 thru spdif. Can it come through the nvidia card itself?

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Aspen 7548 motherboard uses Realtek alc888s will this driver work?

https://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/17883/

[QUOTE=Plankton;1764303]I need your mobo m
It is just the mb
aspen 7548 MSI motherboard.
Was for a HP PC.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01635688

Plankton said:

So this is a OEM retail PC? What's the make/model of HP PC?

There is no model #, case , nothing. I bought years ago this MB off ebay and it is a fine MB, working for years. I put it into an old yellow PC case I had here, it is a bunch of parts I assembled, there is no HP model number that I know.

I looked it up, it has a realtek ALC888s audio chip, whenever win 10 decides to finish upgrading, and spdiff 5.1 output still does not work, I will download a realtek driver to see if it can work.

Plankton said:

Here's the chip set driver.....

https://www.amd.com/en/support/chips...-chipsets/780g

Thanks for looking at this,
does that amd chipset driver include the Realtek alc888s audio driver?
I will find out this weekend.

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AMD 780G chipset review | TechRadar

reading about it, it wont help the audio, and i dont use the 780g graphics.

spdif is limited to 2.0 channels.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...329958?page=35

spdif only outputs 5.1 from something like Dolby Digital from DVD's.

Windows 10 - Surround Sound - Optical - Not Functioning Correctly | [H]ard|Forum

It is a licensing issue. People were able to use hacked drivers before but Microsoft stopped that hack.

So there is nothing to fix.

sandyt said:

spdif is limited to 2.0 channels.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...329958?page=35

spdif only outputs 5.1 from something like Dolby Digital from DVD's.

Windows 10 - Surround Sound - Optical - Not Functioning Correctly | [H]ard|Forum

It is a licensing issue. People were able to use hacked drivers before but Microsoft stopped that hack.

So there is nothing to fix.

So impossible to get 5.1 sound from spdiff on windows 10 . But which does output 5.1 sound on windows 7 ?
I think your wrong about this. Do you have any internet evidence to support your claim?

I use this all the time in windows 7. I have the spdiff cable plugged into the Sony audio receiver, and it plays fine 5.1 sound out to the speakers.