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Assist => Support => AA Support => Topic started by: H.Blacksmith on Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 10:46:16 AM
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Hey all,
does anybody now how to enable quadrophonic or 5.1 sound for AAO. I'm using my onboard sound card (Realtek) on Win 7. In Realtek HD Audio-Manager everything works fine and i get a signal from all speakers, but in game the sound is only stereo. I can't hear anything from the rear speakers. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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With 5.1 audio you generally need to have more than 1 audio output from your computer. If that came with your PC, then great.
If you have a USB 5.1 headset, those generally come with their own audio chip and make only "virtual" 3D sound.
Or at least that's what I gathered when I bought my 5.1 headset around 8 years ago, it's broken now and I haven't used one like that in a long time.
As for enabling it in AA, I believe you needed to change the ingame audio settings to EAX (or something like that), but I'm not really sure anymore nowadays.
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Thanks for reply. I already tried that. I have more than 1 audio output and the settings in game are changed to EAX. Sound card drivers are up to date. But no 3d sound...
Other games are working. But AAO does'nt.
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Cmon guys! Does nobody have an idea here...? Really...? I can't believe that i'm the only one who has problems with this.
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Bear in mind that this is a rather small community and it might take some time for someone with useful information to join the chat here.
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I see! :D
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Im not sure but I have seen 5.1 option only in Linux version of AA.
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That's strange. On Win XP it was possible to play AA with surround sound. So whats the big deal to do that on Win 7? It's pretty important in this game to be able to hear where exactly something happens...
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Have you checked if assist audio settings has option to tick on 5.1 sounds? Some settings work better through assist settings than aa settings.
I havent seen in Windows AA version 5.1 option, but in Linux I believe yes, but if you are sure it has worked in Windows XP, its pretty surely about EAX. EAX support was removed since Windows Vista, but there is probably a workaround.
With Realtek you can try following: download SoundsBack from Realtek website audio downloads. Yes, its old but only thing I know is made for getting EAX back.
After installing in Vista compatibility mode, run it in compatibility mode also as ADMIN. Remember to have hidden/system files set to visible in Windows. Add a game, search for ArmyOps in /users/username/AppData/roaming/assist25/armyops. Im not sure if you need to add root folder of aa or system of aa, so you could add both and remember to enable them.
Try again now :)
I didnt know that in Windows AA there was 5.1 setting, I thought its just virtual 3D sound in stereo.
If anything above doesnt work, go to your playback devices sound properties, enhancements tab and tick "speaker fill" then what you get, should be double stereo which at least with music sounds better, at least you get sound from all speakers ^^ I think it was that option.
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Thanks Pipez0r for the extensive description. I already knew SoundsBack from Realtek but i could not make it work - at least not for AAO. I followed your installation instructions but no luck. Guess that this SoundsBack thing only works for a few games. If somebody knows a way to use it for AAO it would be great if he shares his knowledge here in forum.
I solved my quadrophonic problem by installing WinXP on a seperate HD and using it for playing AAO. That's the only way i know so far to get quadrophonic sound back.
It's not that elegant technically but it works. :style:
Finally i can hear where exactly the enemy is... muhohawhaaa!!!
By the way, it's a shame that i have to downgrade (or degrade ;)) to WinXP for this. Maybe the developers of 25Assist can find a way to enable it in future - and not only for linux users please...
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Interesting. I use soundback, and it seems working (at least with stereo) or maybe its my sound settings that allow me to hear nearly everything like with winxp it used to be.
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Oh and btw, at least in win8.1 and 10 theres an option that can be als in 7, right click sound icon next to clock, playback settings, properties of your device, enhancements tab and tick loudness equalization. Maybe needs the exact driver for your sound card. That really changed my experience, with that and couple of other settings I hear everything.
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Oh and btw, at least in win8.1 and 10 theres an option that can be als in 7, right click sound icon next to clock, playback settings, properties of your device, enhancements tab and tick loudness equalization. Maybe needs the exact driver for your sound card. That really changed my experience, with that and couple of other settings I hear everything.
It really still depends on the particular sound card you have. I've played AA on a bunch of different computers, most with on board sound. However, equalizer or not, there's a huge difference between on board sound and an X-Fi sound card. Not really in the quality of sound so much (not really an expert), but rather the "crispiness" or how clear you can hear individual "clicks" and other sounds made by players.
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Yes of course. I have only onboard card, but these settings make me to hear nearly everything. Especially loudness equalization.
Edit: loudness equalization is different setting than equalizator. And using equalizer with it makes it even better.
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Yes of course. I have only onboard card, but these settings make me to hear nearly everything. Especially loudness equalization.
Edit: loudness equalization is different setting than equalizator. And using equalizer with it makes it even better.
OK, what is different in the loudness equalizer?
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Loudness Equalization uses understanding of human hearing to reduce perceived volume differences.
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So all in all it seems it makes things more smoother and the power of sound similar. I wouldn't think that's what would help you understand better if you're hearing a noise (such as a click of a gun when someone starts/stops running), but if it works, who am I to argue.
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It helps me very much to hear different kind of quiet noises, even crawling :)
Someone posted on guru3d forums about it:
It normalizes the audio volume so quiet sounds are easier to hear and loud sounds are less deafening.
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I personally always hated equalizers...how does it work with footsteps anyway? Doesn't it make judging sound position a bit more difficult?
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I personally always hated equalizers...how does it work with footsteps anyway? Doesn't it make judging sound position a bit more difficult?
This Loudness Equalization works differently, but I like it together with equalizator of windows sound settings with setting "powerful". Doesnt make it more difficult to judge the sound position.
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I personally always hated equalizers...how does it work with footsteps anyway? Doesn't it make judging sound position a bit more difficult?
Well, the regular equalizer just makes some frequencies pop up better. So if you know what frequencies are present in the sounds you want to hear (such as gun clicks, footsteps, doors and so on), you can increase their power. So you can hear those things more clearly among the rest of the noise. You can also use this to lessen the ambient noise on certain maps (e.g Sandstorm).
When all this is done correctly (and there used to be a different EQ setting for just about every map) it helped tremendously.
The reason it doesn't make it more difficult to pinpoint the direction of these noises is because the settings are constant so it is different to playing without them, but you get used to it.
So I suppose the loudness equalizer is sort of like SVM was on X-Fi - it makes it easier to hear sounds that are quite quiet - especially when there's little to no ambient sound - by amplifying them. This can make it a little more difficult to pinpoint the distance the enemy is at since the strength of the action does not diminish with distance the way you'd expect. Plus, it usually depends on whether or not there's other ambient sounds around. So if you're on WC (where there's next no overall ambient sound), depending on the place you're at (or more precisely the local ambient noises there) you will hear far away sounds differently.
This took some getting used to, but I believe I got the hang of it back when I used X-Fi (I still have the card, but no slot for it).
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Pipeline main pump room ambient noise is no problem with it but sandstorm, I need to take that setting off.