Actual surround sound - Devs, please help

**nofsky** · 11-05-2010, 07:05 PM

Yes, I have actual surround sound. I just dropped the soft_oal.dll in the same folder as Amnesia.exe and picked the DirectSound option in the Launcher settings. I have on-board Realtek HD sound. I'm not using the digital output though, maybe that has something to do with it?

**NeatNit** · 11-05-2010, 09:51 PM

It's not really using the digital output - it's a USB device.

It's basically its own sound card... And obviously it's set to 7.1.

**NeatNit** · 11-12-2010, 07:05 PM

Bump.

This is really disappointing...

**Luis** · 11-13-2010, 12:01 AM

Sorry for the late reply. Not sure what is wrong here, as the OpenAL soft implementation does not rely on any special hardware to get surround sound working. Do other OpenAL games output surround for you?

**NeatNit** · 11-13-2010, 01:19 AM

Well, to tell the truth I haven't tried... Right now the computer is off and I'm in bed, so I'll check tommorow morning and post the results. You have about 9 hours to suggest a game Tongue

**Luis** · 11-13-2010, 10:22 AM

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/O...Games.aspx

I assume you are on Windows, so make sure you try one that shows Windows next to it Smile

**NeatNit** · 11-14-2010, 02:36 PM

I've tested with a few games, and so far it doesn't seem to be. The test would be more conclusive if we knew that whatever game I was playing does in fact support surround sound.

I tried Think Tanks (the demo), a cute little game I picked from the list you gave me.
I also tried STALKER (Shadow of Chernobyl), which for some reason didn't even give me stereo.

**NeatNit** · 11-25-2010, 08:17 PM

I tried the examples found in the OpenAL SDK. They're supposed to give surround sound, but didn't.

Is this an OpenAL problem or a G930 problem?

I will try on other computers.

**Luis** · 11-26-2010, 09:31 AM

Seems it is a problem with both, as in OpenAL not liking your headset. Unless your Windows speaker config (the one in the standard control panel for sound) is still set to stereo, I am not really sure about what is happening. Something we can do is reporting this to the OpenAL soft devs, see if they have some light to shed here.