Windows 10: Surround sound not working for some games.

Discus and support Surround sound not working for some games. in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and now find that certain games (such as Project Reality, the STALKER series and Killing Floor) do not have surround... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by Tea and Crumpet, Aug 27, 2015.

  1. Surround sound not working for some games.


    I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and now find that certain games (such as Project Reality, the STALKER series and Killing Floor) do not have surround sound - only stereo. It looks as though there must be a driver issue as I never noticed this issue in Windows 7. The odd thing is there are other games (Elite Dangerous and Killing Floor 2) that the surround sound works well with.
    Why is it just the older ones and how can I get the surround sound working again?

    Oh and I am not using a sound card (just in case that makes a difference).

    :)
     
    Tea and Crumpet, Aug 27, 2015
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  2. PatrikXI Win User

    Windows 10 5.1 surround sound not working

    I have upgraded to Windows 10 and my 5.1 surround sound is not working i use the same drivers that i used on windows 7 and they worked. When i go to test the surround sound it works but when i go in games there is no sound at all.
     
    PatrikXI, Aug 27, 2015
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  3. Dolby Atmos Headphone problem

    And he's been telling you that it DOES NOT WORK. I've posted a similar feedback a while ago and the guy who answered insisted that i should contact my "original equipement vendor"... I'm going to clarify something here, both dolby atmos for headphones and
    windows sonic do not work in games (yes, even when you download the app and enable it properly) because:

    1) Modern games decide what sound they output by looking at windows's speaker config

    2) Atmos and sonic are seen as stereo

    3) Most of the time you can't change the sound output to surround in games (see nier automata, titanfall 2 etc...)

    Ergo, videogames output simple stereo and since there's nothing for atmos and sonic to work with, they simply don't do proper virtual surround. Now, i understand that there's a "handshake" that's supposed to happen between the game and the surround solution
    to obtain 5.1 or 7.1 from video games in order to downmix it into a positionnal stereo signal, but that doesn't happen (maybe with windows store bought games, but i'm not dumb enough to actually buy my games from there, i can't test).

    In movies? As long as you manage to configure your video player properly to output surround sound, it works fine.

    And no, it's not hardware or driver dependent. Those two solutions do not create a surround interface for games to see, it's either a design oversight or a plain dumb mistake because people who implemented that do not know how videogames work.

    Just for info, i've tested EXTENSIVELY creative's CMSS-3D and SBX, razer surround and sennheiser gsx 1000 (best virtual surround out there btw) and all of them work on the same principle of modifying windows' speaker setup, so yeah, i know what i'm talking
    about.
     
    Glasofruix, Aug 27, 2015
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