Windows Vista Bass redirection to sub

So I have a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality and surround sound 5.1 speakers. In XP the creative audio panel had a nice "Enable bass redirection" and it would make my sub work very nicely. Games would detect it and use it for shooting etc. Since i got vista, no such luck. I've read about this problem elsewhere but no solutions.

Ive run tests and all 5.1 speakers (including sub) work fine in the tests. Ive checked balance volumes of all speakers, all at 100%. Ive uninstalled the creative audio console leaving only the latest web drivers, and still no sub. Not during music from windows media player/win amp. Not from games. Not from DVDs.

This is really getting annoying, I want to use it. I was playing songs at one point and they stopped by themself, which happens some times (Corrupted file? I dont know). Anyway I hit play and it started using my sub for every song. Then I restarted windows media, and the sub wasn't working anymore. I had changed no settings, and haven't since. I've been all over Windows Vista, creative audio panel, and windows media player. There is no option I have missed.

 

Bump

Bump? Does -anyone- have an idea? This isn't encouraging BTW the sub just isn't working for songs/video. It works for games that support it, though forcing redirection in all apps would be cool.

 

Hi,

Did you have "on-board" audio before you put in the Fatality card? The 'redirection" may be to the on-board audio. Look in the BIOS/Startup settings for if you can disable the on-board audio.

From that...
I don't expect you installed the audio management software for the on-board audio. Check in Control Panel -> Programs and Features if "non-suitable" audio controller programs may be installed.
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In other words, check if some other type of software is redirecting the "target ".

Matt