surround sound broken
jolonne5
Join Date: 2013-08-27 Member: 187103Members
The game keeps auto detecting 5.1 but im not running a 5.1 setup im running a 4.1. Is there anyway to manually change this because the sound is completely broken. So broken that I turned down the sound all the way ingame just so I don't have to hear it. This lead me to finding another bug... Even if you ingame volume is turned all the way down you can still hear stuff in the game. Like marines pullin a grenade out and aliens making weird sounds. Its really annoying and it is actually keeping me from playing the game. Please fix this or add in a way to chance the sound setup in the menu.
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Absolutely agree. I have the same problem since ages. It is really time to fix it.
I use headphones and I don't have a surround sound speaker system. However, I do have an ASUS Xonar Essence STX sound card, which allows me to set whatever speaker setup I please and then have the audio down-mixed to stereo with HRTFs applied by Dolby Headphone. This allows me to hear sounds in my headphones as if they were coming from speakers all around me.
In quadrophonic mode, certain sounds simply won't come out of the back speakers. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a pattern to predict which sounds would suffer from this issue.
Example: In Turbine on Refinery, the sound of the broken water pipe won't come out of the back speakers. Much more crucially, though, the sound of aliens biting a power node also won't come out of the back speakers.
When you say that "the game keeps auto detecting 5.1", how do you know that? Did you look in the console right after launching the game and see your sound device listed with "5.1" at the end? It's the forth line in the console after starting NS2. For me, these are the four possible things I can see depending on the speaker setup that I selected in Windows:
The can only reproduce the sound problems when it's in quadrophonic mode.
@ARMYguy - When you say "the sound only comes out of the front 2 speakers", do you mean that every sound that is currently audible is coming out of the front speakers (ie: the back speakers are totally silent) or do you mean that the sound that you're currently concentrating your attention on is coming only from the front speakers?
I suspect that you're missing out on sounds that come from a certain direction (probably straight in front of you because you don't have the front-center speaker that a 5.1 system has).
Save & exit, reboot.
Might solve a conflict you're having, if you use a 3rd party soundcard/device.
There is even a post from him in 2012 talking about fmod:
Can you elaborate on "broken"? What are the symptoms of the problem?