Is there any way to force 3D sound on?
By
Bill Z Bubba,
Posted on: 2010-08-17 07:54 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Are you running Vista or Windows 7? If so I18 has removed the option to turn on 3D sound with those operating systems. Unfortunatly rather than migrate the sound engine from Windows XP Direct Sound to Vista and Windows 7 OpenAL, the Devs chose to just disable the 3D sound.
This workaround might work if you're brave enough to deal with the registry.
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Well, crap. Why? 3D sound was functioning on Live with Windows 7 x64 before I18. Was it somehow buggy or something? Well, at least that explains what the problem is. Guess I'll just have to boost the volume of my centre speaker. Thanks for letting me know.|
Originally Posted by Moosebane
Are you running Vista or Windows 7? If so I18 has removed the option to turn on 3D sound with those operating systems. Unfortunatly rather than migrate the sound engine from Windows XP Direct Sound to Vista and Windows 7 OpenAL, the Devs chose to just disable the 3D sound.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
This workaround might work if you're brave enough to deal with the registry.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Sam, another thread on this topic already exists for your reading pleasure.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=233880
Hopefully the devs will unass this issue soon.
Be well, people of CoH.
Recently, my PC suffered some kind of software corruption when I lost power at exactly the wrong time (thank you, piece of crap UPS), and I've had to reinstall a lot of old software, including my audio drivers. However, now that I did, City of Heroes no longer recognises that I have the sound card that I have, so it's not letting me so much as touch 3D sound.
I don't want to fiddle with driver cleaners, diver rollbacks, support utilities and all that sort of crap. When I get the time, I'll do a complete wipe and system reinstall. I've been meaning to kill that HP recovery drive for some time now.
Thing is, I'm not going to mess with drivers until then, so is there any way for me to turn on 3D audio even though the Graphics and Audio menu won't let me? Slash command or startup command or some such?