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EVE & 7.1 Surround Sound.... Ever?
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Eternum Praetorian
Doomheim
#1 - 2011-12-21 20:59:10 UTC
My logictech 7.1 surround sound speakers are awesome in every way, that is... except for playing EVE Online. I don't get any sounds at all outside of a loud thunderous thump from time to time.


My VCL player has as audio output options "stereo" "5.1" 7.1" ex.) so why doesn't EVE?
Gimmay audio output selections! It is 2012 and I have very little time left to hear eve before quetzalcoatl returns!

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#2 - 2011-12-21 21:08:31 UTC
Er... I've got a 5.1 surround sound setup and it appears to work just fine. Only trouble is that the sounds are positioned relative to the camera position rather than the ship position, so any sounds between my ship and the camera come up from ahead of me rather than behind me.

Are you sure you're not too zoomed out? The sound in Eve obeys molasses physics just like its ships, so if you zoom farther out the sounds gradually fade into muffled thumps that sound as if you were listening to a firefight through several walls padded with cotton balls.

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Eternum Praetorian
Doomheim
#3 - 2011-12-21 21:10:30 UTC
Yep, zoomed in.

Is there an in game audio setting that I am not aware of?

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#4 - 2011-12-21 21:12:36 UTC
Nope, works by default for me. What sort of audio chipset does your motherboard (or soundcard) use? I used to have stupid surround audio problems with my old Realtek audio motherboard. My current one is VIA and works just fine.

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Eternum Praetorian
Doomheim
#5 - 2011-12-21 21:20:40 UTC
Its Realtek HD audio, maybe that is why Shocked


Thx, I thought it was a bit weird for this set up not to work in eve.

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#6 - 2011-12-21 21:24:27 UTC
Yeah, I don't remember if my Realtek setup worked with Eve or not back when I had it.

The biggest problem I had with it is enabling Speaker Fill (mapping 2.0 channels to 5.1). It would distort the audio horribly. The only solution was to pipe the audio through an actual software media player (foobar2000 actually), which would record it and upmix it to 5.1, and then play it. I got a second or two of lag, so that was impossible to use for gaming, but it worked for playing music from Pandora and the likes.

Anyway, I don't have any other way to help really. Maybe someone else has had the same problem and can help. Good luck!

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Laila Kumaki
Nex quod Principatus
#7 - 2011-12-21 21:34:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Laila Kumaki
EVE's sound support barely functions at all on some hardware. If the biggest of your worries is that you can't seem to get surround sound working, consider yourself lucky.

Imagine having to mute your client any time pulse lasers are being used because their sound plays at maximum volume from any distance with no falloff whatsoever, and a variety of other sounds never turning off once they're played once.

Sound is a deprecated function in EVE, if it works at all it's a blessing.
Valeo Galaem
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#8 - 2011-12-21 22:56:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Valeo Galaem
Make sure your speakers are configured right in the Windows sound settings. I set mine for 5.1 surround in there (w/ virtual surround processing for stereo sources) and haven't touch anything else. Works fine.

But yah, Eve has sound?, etc.

Standalone Windows build of ccpgames/dae-to-red

https://github.com/Nu11u5/dae-to-red/releases