Gameplay sound issues.

[esteel]

I cant' believe you just asked me this
Anyway, my mobo is capeable of 5.1 sound (not 7.1)
And yes, they are plugged into the correct plug (the green one)

I'll try ds01's suggestion later tonight...

Hehe sorry.. Yeah the green one is the right one.
I just noticed that not all speakers have proper colors, for example my 5.1 headset has purple, blue and red connectors.. while the soundcard correctly has green (front or stereo), black (rear) and yellow(center and subwoofer). And at the time i got it i did not find any clear documentation about this stuff..

Just a side notice but intel does say on its site the 915P express chipset on your MoBo can do 7.1 maybe it was stripped down for your MoBo to be cheaper or something.. but as you only use 2.0 it should not matter

[Toets]

Just a side notice but intel does say on its site the 915P express chipset on your MoBo can do 7.1 maybe it was stripped down for your MoBo to be cheaper or something.. but as you only use 2.0 it should not matter

Yes you are correct, the 915P does support 7.1 for the higher versions of this type of mobo. Mine only supports 6 channels maximum. Some post above, I provided a link to my type of mobo, where you can see it only has 6 channels. Anyway, doesn't realy matter

[Toets]

Anyone having this problem on Windows tried moving the "Slider" setting in the "Multimedia" Control Panel under the Audio Playback settings from Best Quality to Higher Performace. Turn it all the way to performance in all the panels. Does that make any difference at all? I've seen some audio drivers with really poor sample rate converters in my days...

Tried several settings, but nothing really made any difference...

[PHREAK]

Last weekend I wiped my drive and started fresh. 2 days ago I DL Nex again and while the sound still shows the same issues on speakers, on headphones it's working!!!
Yay. The sound is still not as good as it was on 1.2.1 but it's a LOT better.
Stahl, or anyone....any ideas why my headphones handle it better?
I tested every other game I have as well and only nex shows a difference on headphones. Trem sounds the same, GTA SA is the same, etc. Just nex...
I'm glad I got OK sound now though. We'll see how the new build does.

P.S. @ stahl
I havent tried with a new engine...figured 2.0 is coming out soon enough;)

[esteel]

Hi Phreak. Woah that sounds crazy. Speakers and Headphones should not make any difference. Headphones are just smaller and closer to your ears. However i prefer headphones as they stop you from hearing other sounds (like from your computer and surroundings) and because of that its easier to hear things happening in the game. Do you connect the speakers and the headphones differently in ANY way? (Some computers have a extra headphone plug at the front)
Part of the sound engine was being rewritten and tChr said that he thinks sound got a bit better for him.
Ok, i guess some people might want to beat me for such a stupid question but did anyone try to play around with the "swap stereo" option?

[PHREAK]

I did actually use the front plug for the headphones, now that you mention it. I did not go straight to the sound card.
I'll try the soundcard jack and see if there is a difference.

[PHREAK]

Well, the 2.0 forum release has the same sound issues for me when using my 2.1 speakers, but now I feel a lot more comfortable using my headphones that I really don't care about the issue anymore.
Since I don't have the sound problem with the headphones, it must have something to do with my sound card/on board sound chip.

[tChr]

The soudbn is better for me now (2.0 forum version) . The mixing/interpolation seem crisper, and that was enough to make the distictions in direction more easy to figure out.

[esteel]

That is good to hear!

@Phreak: Could you please take a look at the new variable snd_channels. It should be 3 for 2.1 sound. It should also be available in the Options/Sound menu.. Maybe its detecting a wrong number of channels..

[PHREAK]

I'll try that in the morning.
Can't really test it out this time of night since cops would show up at my door
I'll report the results, however i've grown to love headphones. No I can hear every little detail, and music on top of it without anything blending the way it shouldnt. Not just with nex but other games as well. I have good phones to so that might be why i love it.
I do think there is something wrong with my sound chip since if I use the fron plug, sound is perfect, if i use the rear one, it's muffled.
Maybe it's really time for me to upgrade and maybe use this one as a server.