surround sound disfunctional

[MoD]

I'll keep it simple:

nforce2 onboard 5.1 sound - 4 speakers mode on windows 2000, no surround as far as i can tell, and in the speakers test map, i hear all channels from all speakers.

Bugreported, haven't got an answer, and found nothing on steam officials.

Help meh :<

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i have realtek ac'97 onboard sound and get the same problem. it stinks cause if you turn around you dont hear people that are talking to you.

JB

 

[MoD]

It was since fixed for me...

I believe it was after one of the updates, and I also updated my drivers.

Try getting new drivers from nvidia

 

[^Ben]

I got the realtek 5.1 problem aswell

I sent an email to valve detailing my problems so hopefully they take notice.

 

[f1r3b4ll]

I have a Genius 5.1 Value soundcard (£20) and have glorious 5.1 lol- not to rub it in likes....

 

[samfox]

ok, I have ozaki 5.1 headphones on an onboard 7.1 gigabyte i915G. The 5.1 options on hl2 is completely bugged.

If I run HL2 on initial reboot of my PC. the 5.1 doesnt work. I can play around with the settings as much as you like, but it doesn not work. It only works AFTER I run another different game (like GTA vice city) that uses surround. Exit this game then run HL2 or counter strike:s and the 5.1 now works. Frigging great eh?. But if you try to play about with the setting in audio then it stops working again.

Its like it needs a primer game to kickstart its 5.1. Completely bugged.

Come on Valve!!

 

[samfox]

also forgot to add that once 5.1 is working and a few games on cs:s, the speaker direction changes - rear left changes with rear right and sometimes front speakers changes to back speakers etc. more bugs.

 

[njdevil2350]

I have an audigy 2 with 7.1 surround sound speakers, whenever i put in half life 2 DM or CS source using 7.1 surround sound it freezes within 5 minutes of playing online. I was wondering if anybody else was having this kind of problem. No other game of mine freezes but I have to play with 5.1 surround sound now because the 7.1 is so messed up. This really sucks I hope valve realizes this problem and is attempting to fix it.

 

[oldagerocker]

I cant distinguish surround sound in my speakers, i've only thought Wow that was behind me (the origin of sound) in other games and films... its odd. All channels are working but not as clearly as i'd like.

Using Nviia 2 onboard btw and 5.1 speakers. And yeah, css test works but i cant tell in css if it is or not. i dont think it is.

 

[nutcrackr]

4 speaker setup on my realtek al650 does not work. Sound is not present at all and I have to set it to 2 speakers.

 

[Johhny_Wakko]

I got problems too.

I also have myself onboard REALTEK AC97 audio 5.1 that doesnt work either. HL2 is driving me insane because the 5.1 doesnt work, in fact, not much audio works at all for HL2.

I also have a suspicion that HL2 has stopped my 5.1 subwoofer working in other Direct3D games as well. My sub has stopped working in UT2004, UT2003 and FarCry, but it works in WMPlayer, AC97 speaker tests, DVD's, CD's and DooM3 which uses OpenGL. All of my 5.1 speakers work everywhere else expect Direct3D games. This occured only after I installed HL2. The problem is still there even after a format.

HL2, nothing but trouble!

 

[exodusuk]

oh my o dear , not good eh chappies

 

[jesse_cool5]

i too have the realtek ac97 drivers ive had trouble ever since they added openal support but if you use an older driver version i use 5.10.0.5170 all the channels work