Turtle Beach Montego DDL + 5.1 Vs Windows Seven

Like I said I have a Montego DDL, everything worked fine on XP with of course the corresponding XP drivers, however now using Seven with Vista drivers I'm having difficulties with my surround speakers. I can't get the surround speakers to do anything using windows media 12; however i've never been able to get WM to utilize my surround speakers ever (I tried though) Anyways, I then downloaded K-lite 5 (newest) and used FFDshow audio configurer to change settings of the codec which caused the surround speakers to sound distorted so I reversed all the changes that I had made.

I then decided to uninstall the device driver and allowed windows seven to detect the hardware automatically (because it did that without my consent anyways at start) All along the Vista driver allowed each speaker to operate as its supposed to through turtle beach control panel using the test feature. (Each speaker would output in the right location and whatnot) However I wouldn't get any sound coming from media. I know my control panel settings are correct and configured right.

I DID get the surround speakers to output sound using media player classic using the "audio switcher" and custom mapping the channel (actually not really knowing what i'm doing I just sorta activated every option and checked all the boxes and sound started to come out of those speakers. I'm yet to try other media applications for further results because its late and i'm sleepy.

But i'm relatively certain that the settings I configured using the audio mapper only apply when i'm using Windows Media Player Classic. Not to mention i'd THINK that audio mapping isn't a "natural" state more of a of forced operation. I never had to do all this before with XP. it just seemed to work (except not in WM, of course ) .

NOW, i'm wondering if anyone has experienced anything like this and can offer me some help!) Also, side question.. does Windows Media support 5.1 channel speakers? I've never seemed to get it to work.