With DDL, you can finally play your video games in all the great glory that is 5.1. DDL is a hardware encoder that takes this uncompressed 5.1 and compresses it so that it can be sent over optical to your receiver, and then decoded there. Like I said, optical (and coax too) simply can't transmit uncompressed 5.1. Now, normally the rest of your system (like computer games) just sends out raw 5.1 when you tell it to do so. Your receiver, if it has DD and DTS, can decode this compressed audio. In things like DVDs and blu-ray, the audio already has this compression and that's what gets sent out. Optical connections CANNOT support uncompressed 5.1 audio out. It's got 5.1 hooked up.Įver try setting HL2 to 5.1 and you only get 2.1? This is what I'll help explain in these next paragraphs. Overall Review: I've got a sony receiver with dolby digital and DTS capabilities. Half life 2 in 5.1 is a whole new experience. DDL worked, and I was finally able to play my computer games in true 5.1 surround sound on my sony home theatre system. Once I downloaded and installed these drivers, EVERYTHING worked. C-media is the company that makes these chips and they sell them to other companies who re-package and sell them again.turtle beach being one of those companies.
#Turtle beach montego ddl gq968 drivers
CMI8786 is referring to the big black silicon chip on the sound card, and as long as you get drivers that were made for this chip, they should work. I downloaded the CMI8786 drivers, so I chose accordingly (V8.17.40). Instead, do a google search for c-media drivers. I was unable to make 5.1 work in computer games with these drivers. Not the ones on the CD, not the new ones on their website.
#Turtle beach montego ddl gq968 install
DDL, which is the entire reason I got this cardĬons: -Only stereo on the optical in (not a problem for 99% of people)ĭrivers: Do not install turtle beach drivers. It definitely sounds better compared to my motherboard's audio, though my motherboard's audio certainly wasn't bad (Asus P6X58D)
Pros: I wouldn't consider myself an audiophile, but I'm an electrical engineer who knows a lot more than your average person about audio stats, frequency response, and how these things work at a hardware level. If they fixed those couple of annoyances this would be about perfect, but depending on your other equipment and how you hook it up they might not even effect you.
Overall Review: For the price you're probably not going to find anything better, and the issues with it can be worked around. I was able to work around it by opening a second player and having it loop a blank audio file, but it shouldn't require that. Depending on the receiver (mine does) this means it might click and drop half a second of audio after each time there's no output. The SPDIF keepalive option in the config program doesn't work, so when nothing is playing it turns off the beam. I've had a lot of sound cards that always have a little buzz or static or can't handle high frequencies, but this one is perfectly clean.Ĭons: You can't have it pass along analog signals (line-in, microphone, etc) to the digital out without setting up a program to basically record it and immediately play it back.
If you want to make an interference-free connection between your computer and receiver, this works perfectly.
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