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PostPosted: Wed, 17th Nov 2010 22:32    Post subject: ACL889 DTS interactive on non-Gigabyte mainboards
From what I understood so far my MSI mainboard has a Realtek ACL889 chip that can encode 5.1 audio from games into DTS (DTS Interactive) and send it to my 5.1 System via SPDIF.
It appears that Realtek made a deal with Gigabyte to deactivate this feature on mainboards from other manufacturers. So now I'm expected to buy a dedicated soundcard to use the feature Rolling Eyes

Is there a known way to circumvent this limitation, like a value in the registry that makes the Realtek driver unlock the setting?
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PostPosted: Wed, 17th Nov 2010 22:46    Post subject:
The ALC889A has that, you sure it's that one? Because there's a "regular"ALC889 as well Smile

If you do have that exact chip, I doubt the limitation is done in software; using the Gigabyte driver would be the way to circumvent it Smile
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me7




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PostPosted: Wed, 17th Nov 2010 22:56    Post subject:
I have an ALC889.
I thought the "A" version and the regular one are identical, just named differently to indicate that one has DTS encoding enabled and the other one is locked.
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PostPosted: Wed, 17th Nov 2010 23:15    Post subject:
No, the A can just do slightly higher sampling in general I believe. Not sure, but I think that was the change Smile
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PostPosted: Wed, 17th Nov 2010 23:35    Post subject:
OK, sounds like I'm out of luck.

Thank you Smile
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