Hi all.I have recently bought myself a Creative 5200 5.1 speaker set.Apperantly their quality rocks but I have one problem.When FS is open at first,all the 5 speakers work but when I change the view the 2 rear speakers lose their sound.If I go back to windows via alt+tab and come back to FS the rear speakers' sound is restored.Then if I change views they are gone again.This is driving me nuts.And then again,I have the same problem with other programs too.For example when I play some music with windows media player all 5 works but for winamp,the 2 rears have no sound.And I have GTA :San andreas installed and it has all 5 working for it too.I checked all the settings from Control panel/sounds,it is recognized as 5.1 there and also the sound card program which tests all the speakers and everything is correct there too.Also checked directx,all working there in its tests too.Searched the forum but couldn't see any similar issue.The sound card is an onboard card with my epox 9npaj mainboard which is a 7.1 compatible one.Can you please help me with this sound issue of mine.Thanks in advance.Happy flying.

You might change your FS9 cfg to show that you have a 5.1 system. Goto the hardware forum and check out the FS and Windows Optimization thread near the top by onetinsoldier. Jim

Sorry I can't help out, but I've got the Creative Inspire (now called P380) 2.1 speaker and subwoofer set. Very pleased with the quality and results.. now all I need is a proper sound card and I'm all set on the sound front :)

Well I figured out that the only rear problem I have is with PMDG 737 and LevelD767.The rest has all 5 speakers working.I have added the sound line to the cfg as you have mentioned but it doesn't solve it.Leveld was working yesterday though,now it does not work.This is really weird.So I guess I'll have to fly pmdg and leveld with only 3 speakers then.