I don’t have any experience with virtual surround, but I do have a potential alternative if you don’t get it figured out.

If the games you play have a headphone mode, try it. That typically gets a pretty good virtual surround effect. As for improving sound quality, check out the AutoEQ project on GitHub. I got some cheap $20 Monoprice headphones that sound like they’re $150 or better when using the correct profile from AutoEQ.

It’s recommended to let Windows check NTFS drives, but there’s ntfsfix for those that live dangerously.

MegaMan X.

It’s nice to play a game you know so well that you shoot at everything before it appears.

I used dalnet around 2000 or so. Hung out in #speaker’s_corner quite a bit.