Windows 10: Realtek Stereo Sound Issues

I started noticing that in games, some sounds aren't working properly. As an example, in 3D games such as Fallout: New Vegas, Borderlands 2 and Dying Light, the positional audio for character dialog lowers in volume if you are not facing directly at the character. If I turn 180 degrees away from the character, the volume of the character's speech is almost zero.

I believe what is happening is that the games are incorrectly trying to render 5.1 or 7.1 audio, so when the player turns in relation to the character, it's trying to use side and rear speakers (which aren't there) to render the audio.

I have everything in Windows sound settings set to 'Stereo'. But in 'Sound Control Panel' in the properties for Realtek High Defintion Audio, the 'Levels' tab is still showing 'Side', 'Center', 'Subwoofer' and 'Rear' level settings. No matter what I do it looks like the driver is trying to render multichannel instead of stereo.

To confirm this I enabled 'Windows Sonic for Headphones' and the issue goes away, I believe because this mixes the multichannel audio down to stereo. I'm using Realtek HD Audio (I've tried three different drivers and currently have the 6.0.8799.1 installed).

Finally I uninstalled the Realtek driver and Windows installed its default sound driver and it does not have the issue. It also doesn't show the extra channels in its sound control panel.

I did see an article about a recent Windows update that affected multichannel sound in games, but it doesn't mention stereo sound or the issue I'm having.

Can anyone using stereo audio with Realtek drivers confirm this issue?

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Realtek Stereo Sound Issues

I started noticing that in games, some sounds aren't working properly. As an example, in 3D games such as Fallout: New Vegas, Borderlands 2 and Dying Light, the positional audio for character dialog lowers in volume if you are not facing directly at the character. If I turn 180 degrees away from the character, the volume of the character's speech is almost zero.

I believe what is happening is that the games are incorrectly trying to render 5.1 or 7.1 audio, so when the player turns in relation to the character, it's trying to use side and rear speakers (which aren't there) to render the audio.

I have everything in Windows sound settings set to 'Stereo'. But in 'Sound Control Panel' in the properties for Realtek High Defintion Audio, the 'Levels' tab is still showing 'Side', 'Center', 'Subwoofer' and 'Rear' level settings. No matter what I do it looks like the driver is trying to render multichannel instead of stereo.

To confirm this I enabled 'Windows Sonic for Headphones' and the issue goes away, I believe because this mixes the multichannel audio down to stereo. I'm using Realtek HD Audio (I've tried three different drivers and currently have the 6.0.8799.1 installed).

Finally I uninstalled the Realtek driver and Windows installed its default sound driver and it does not have the issue. It also doesn't show the extra channels in its sound control panel.

I did see an article about a recent Windows update that affected multichannel sound in games, but it doesn't mention stereo sound or the issue I'm having.

Can anyone using stereo audio with Realtek drivers confirm this issue?

 

realtek sound driver

windows 10 pro x64 build 10162

asus x99-a motherboard

intel 5820k

gtx980ti msi

problem with sound. driver 6.0.1.7535 realtek.

in stereo its ok. when i configure in 5.1 there is no sound.

• i clean install many times nothing happend.
• tried older version .7525 same problem
• tried version 8.1 windows .7344 same problem again.
• tried troubleshooter, it says that everything is ok.

 

Cannot active "Realtek Stereo Mix" on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.

Hello Deepan,

Thank you for bringing up your query on Microsoft Community.

We sincerely regret for the inconvenience caused.

Please be assured that we will do our best to help you.

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  What happens when you try to record using Stereo Mix?
  
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  Do you receive any error code or error message?
  

Let us try the following steps, and check if it helps.

Step 1: To enable Stereo Mix

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  Right-click on the audio icon in the system tray and select
  Recording Devices to open the recording device settings.
  
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  Then Right-click on the empty area in dialog box and select
  View and Show disconnected devices which would
  
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  Show the Stereo Mix option.
  
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  Right-click on Stereo Mixer and click on Enable.
  

Step 2: To upgrade the Stereo Mixer

Go to Device Manager. Under Audio Inputs and Sounds, locate Stereo Mixer.

* Right click and go to properties and chose to update drivers.

If the issue still persists, then update your sound card driver by the following steps.

1) Go to Device Manager.

2) Click Sound, video, and game controllers to expand.

3) Under Sound, video, and game controllers, double-click the entry for your sound card, and then click the
Driver tab.

Hope it helps.

Let us know the status, we are happy to assist you further.