3D surround sound

[Mr Fenix]

I've worked out what my problem is

I have 3 screens running at 12:3 aspet ratio.

when a sound comes from outside of the centre screen, it sounds like it's 90-ish degrees out even though i can see it on my left or right screen which means it's somewhat infront of me.

the thing causing the sound is out to me left at 45 degrees but is sounds like it's at 90 degreees

[IceDread]

I have Auzentech x-fi prelude 7.1 and since it's not popular to play too high volume at night time I'm thinking about purchasing Tritton AX Pro
http://www.trittontechnologies.com/p...s/TRIGA611.htm
Which to me looks like the best there is on the market for true surround sound in a headset, the Tritton I've in mind is 5.1 and the best headset Tritton has to offer it looks like.

But if there are so much problems with 5.1 as there seams to be in this thread then maybe it's a bad idea except thou that it would be handy in other games as well.

What is the standing with all the issues and does anyone know how far the devs has come in solving it, if they are working on it at all?

Thanks

[kklownboy]

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But if there are so much problems with 5.1 as there seams to be in this thread then maybe it's a bad idea except thou that it would be handy in other games as well.

What is the standing with all the issues and does anyone know how far the devs has come in solving it, if they are working on it at all?

Thanks

I have discrete channels in analog 5.1 in my speakers... no problems. Rear is rear sounds, front left is front left, center is center... not sure what the deal is with surroundsound and arma2. works good.

[Mr Fenix]

I've been playing with current 5.1 settings for about a week now. It's working OK but there's a bug if you have 3 screens and use the 12:3 aspect ratio. The increased fov is not reflected in the sound space: things you can see in front of you (on left or right screen) sound like they are offscreen.

[kklownboy]

I've been playing with current 5.1 settings for about a week now. It's working OK but there's a bug if you have 3 screens and use the 12:3 aspect ratio. The increased fov is not reflected in the sound space: things you can see in front of you (on left or right screen) sound like they are offscreen.

Yeah to set up the sound to be in the right place on a triple will take sometime, tho i have a few friends who use trihead, and they havent talked about a issue, tho they maybe on headphones... You may try to "remap" the primary sound playback device, and or use a different mutiscreen driver...

[Trancetasy]

http://www.ultimate-filez.com/images/cmss3d-tut.png

[RAYtracer]

Good god..
Spent three hours going through driver sets and tweaking my xfi fatality in win7 trying to figure out why 5.1 didn't work only to find out......

My rear wireless speakers were not plugged in.

[Mr Fenix]

@raytracer - lol

@trancetasy, i'll check that out. your effort appreciated!

[GunSlingerAUS]

Good god..
Spent three hours going through driver sets and tweaking my xfi fatality in win7 trying to figure out why 5.1 didn't work only to find out......

My rear wireless speakers were not plugged in.

Always, always, always check the physical wiring first! You poor bugger.

FYI - running X-Fi ExtremeMusic after upgrading from onboard Realtek. X-Fi = sweet sweet 5.1, onboard = terrible stereo (but I was using Optical)

[RAYtracer]

If you have an XFI/Audigy2 type and want the same bloated package of soundblaster crap with a few tiny gems like cmss,7.1,eax,and interface goodies install off your install cd as administrator and in vista mode by right clickin it.. then update over the main driver with the beta one on the creative website. Everything works on my end with win7rc64. Although crackling bug is still present at times. I do have 5.1 again at least.

I had the first Soundblaster card developed back in the day and the parrot and even Dr.Sbaitso never crackled at me. Well.. no I guess the parrot did.

Goodluck

X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
qx6700/8gigram/9800gx2scc/win7rc64/680i nforce