Game only outputs stereo sound

[Curlydave]

Red Orchestra is only outputting stereo sound, with no sound coming from the rears/center at all. I'm using hardware+EAX with system OpenAL driver checked. There's no way to set it to 5.1, and it's just outputting stereo.

Does RO not support 5.1, or is there a way to set it?

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

I occasionally have a problem where my sound card driver settings default to 2.1 instead of 5.1, maybe check your sound card settings? As far as I know, if that happened, the game won't override the 2.1 ...

 

[Curlydave]

Sound card is in 5.1, and all my other games/DVDs work properly.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

I just looked at my settings, I don't have system driver checked and I am getting 5.1 sound.

 

[Curlydave]

I'm wondering if there are others with the problem -I'm having a hard time believing this is a first for me. I searched the forums, but didn't find anything. Understandabye, most people are probably using headphones and would never encounter this, but I'm still surprised. I just tried unchecking system driver, but it didn't help. The fact that there's no option in the menus to set the output mode when most other games have one is a bad sign.

 

[Curlydave]

I just did a search on the Epic forums, and there are many people having this problem with Unreal2 and Unreal3 engine games. Apparently it's a major bug the devs won't acknowledge. Some people can get surround sound working, others can't.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Well, hopefully you can resolve it....

Just make sure all your drivers are up-to-date, and your DirectX as well just in case that is the cause. It's always a good idea anyways, and best of luck.

 

[Boz]

what is your sound card? What OS?

 

[Curlydave]

TB Santa Cruz (Envy24 chip), Vista 32-bit.