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I'm having some major difficulties trying to get Dolby Home Theater functionality working with my EP45T-USB3P. I've tried using both the bundled drivers on the CD, and the latest Realtek drivers on Gigabyte's website dated August 26th 2011. While I'm not overly concerned with getting the Dolby software itself to function, I would like to make use of Dolby Digital Live for games and movies that don't offer native AC3 audio. From what I gather from UD3P and UD4P owners, this should be an available option within the Realtek HD Audio Manager.
When using the CD drivers and the bundled Dolby Control Center application, the Dolby Digital Live option is notably absent from the Default Formats available for the optical outputs. Additionally, I cannot launch the Dolby Control Center application without it crashing due to an "Internal Error". A second error message immediately follows, shown below.
After uninstalling both the Dolby Control Center and Realtek drivers, I downloaded the latest drivers from Gigabyte's website. Here once again I cannot find Dolby Digital Live as a Default Format in the digital output properties. The Dolby Home Theater v4 software included in the PCEE4 folder will also refuse to install, giving the error message "DHT cannot be installed". Attempting to install the Dolby Control Center in conjunction with the new drivers results in the same error message shown above.
So far the only answer that Gigabyte's phone support would offer is that Dolby is only licensed for Vista, not Windows 7, and unlike Creative drivers you cannot purchase a license pack. This simply doesn't make sense to me considering how squarely the motherboard was marketed towards Windows 7 what with all the compatibility logos on the manual, website and box. The Dolby logo is even more common, printed on the actual PCB itself. Heck, a Dolby case badge was included in the box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
SPECS:
Gigabyte EP45T-USB3P F1, F2d
Xeon E3110 (Core 2 Duo E8400)
8GB DDR3 1066
XFX GeForce GTX260
1110 PSU
I'm having some major difficulties trying to get Dolby Home Theater functionality working with my EP45T-USB3P. I've tried using both the bundled drivers on the CD, and the latest Realtek drivers on Gigabyte's website dated August 26th 2011. While I'm not overly concerned with getting the Dolby software itself to function, I would like to make use of Dolby Digital Live for games and movies that don't offer native AC3 audio. From what I gather from UD3P and UD4P owners, this should be an available option within the Realtek HD Audio Manager.
When using the CD drivers and the bundled Dolby Control Center application, the Dolby Digital Live option is notably absent from the Default Formats available for the optical outputs. Additionally, I cannot launch the Dolby Control Center application without it crashing due to an "Internal Error". A second error message immediately follows, shown below.
After uninstalling both the Dolby Control Center and Realtek drivers, I downloaded the latest drivers from Gigabyte's website. Here once again I cannot find Dolby Digital Live as a Default Format in the digital output properties. The Dolby Home Theater v4 software included in the PCEE4 folder will also refuse to install, giving the error message "DHT cannot be installed". Attempting to install the Dolby Control Center in conjunction with the new drivers results in the same error message shown above.
So far the only answer that Gigabyte's phone support would offer is that Dolby is only licensed for Vista, not Windows 7, and unlike Creative drivers you cannot purchase a license pack. This simply doesn't make sense to me considering how squarely the motherboard was marketed towards Windows 7 what with all the compatibility logos on the manual, website and box. The Dolby logo is even more common, printed on the actual PCB itself. Heck, a Dolby case badge was included in the box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
SPECS:
Gigabyte EP45T-USB3P F1, F2d
Xeon E3110 (Core 2 Duo E8400)
8GB DDR3 1066
XFX GeForce GTX260
1110 PSU
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