Comments on: How to Enable Bass Boost and Virtual Surround

By: G

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:28:06 +0000

I really think that I’m right. ;)

If you really want this to work, use some marahuana.
or else you won’t hear a diffrence.

By: maggie

maggie — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:11:05 +0000

thanx this really helped a lot… i ticked on equalizer and i selected bass.
thanks

By: z

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:34:58 +0000

J IS right. I have a creative sound blaster x-fi on vista and I don’t even have the enhancements tab in the speaker properties.

By: No...J-is-right

No...J-is-right — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:54:52 +0000

No F and K, you’re both wrong and J is right. I have a Soundmax Integrated Digitla HD Audio device by Analog Devices and none of those controls show up with Vista OR Win7. It TOTALLY depends on your card and the drivers. Some nicer cards/drivers even show the jacks on the back of the computer, so you can tell what color is front, back, sub, etc.
Take a look at this YouTube vid someone else who thinks everyone’s video options look the same in Vista and tell me if this is what you see. I know I don’t, on any of my computers. I guess either my built-in 7.1 surround card is crap, or the driver is crap (and Analog Devices doesn’t have a download section for drivers).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NYEc8M-DmQ

By: k

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:31:34 +0000

Both of you are right, in your own ways. Vista and 7 do have the options regardless, however, windows xp, ME, and 98 all do have these options if you have the right hardware, my old packard bell, with windows 98 on had a bass boost option with virtual surround, i later upgraded to XP on the same machine and still had these options.
However, i did have another desktop with windows 98 on and it did NOT have these options.

By: f

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:41:26 +0000

j you’re completely wrong. Windows Vista and 7 have these options regardless of your sound card. Your audio drivers may include settings similar to these as well, but the ones Tony is discussing here are included with Windows and do not rely on the audio drivers.

By: j

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:56:10 +0000

Um… all of those options depend on the audio hardware in your computer… it’s completely hardware dependent and is enable by the drivers for the audio hardware.

You’re wrong… it’s not built in.