SB live problem

[Double T]

Does anyone else with a 4 speaker setup, get the weapon sounds predominately in only 1 speaker? My front right seems to have the sound for the gun fire only a bit louder than the other ones so it sounds like it's only coming out of that speaker. All other sounds in the game work fine except gun fire. I'm using the latest drivers AND my setup works great with other games (I still say Half Life has the BEST 4 speaker support). Has anyone else experience this?

Thunderbird 1.33gig
256 PC2100
GF2
Windows ME
SB Live (newest drivers)
Asus A7A

[Double T]

Bump

I know someone has this setup...

[Vision]

I get the same problem! Although it really isn't a problem. Personaly I blam it on my EAX but I'm not sure, it could just be the fact I have 4 speakers... Klipsch ProMedia 4.0... All the enviormental sounds are great but when I fire its extremely weak and doesn't seem to come out of but one speaker. This also depends on what direction I'm facing and how close I am to a wall. Hence why I blame it on my EAX. Let me konw what you figure out.

[Kneecaps]

I think it uses very locational sound. Try using dual berettas- it will come from both speakers. The reason you're only hearing it from the right side is that, if this was real life, the gun sounds would mainly be coming from the right.

Although, I do agree, it is a bit picky about where the sounds come from. In the beginning, I freaked out because I thought my speakers were busted.

By the way, it's not an SBLive thing. I have a Santa Cruz (completely different card) and the sounds are still like that.

[Double T]

Excellent! I'm not the only one. Well maybe we can get them to look at this thread and tell us if your theory about locational fire is correct.

Thanks for your posts, if there are more people with this problem, speak up!

I'm getting the same type of problems. I have a SV Live! XGamer with a Cambrige 5.1 speaker setup. The only sounds I can hear perfectly are Max's voiceovers and the music. Every other sound like explosions, gunshots, footsteps, screams, etc.. depend on which way I'm facing, and most of the time end up being very very faint. The most annoying part is during in-game cutscenes. When the camera floats away from Max, I can not hear the speech of any character because Max is "too far away" to hear it. Very very very annoying. Is there a way to turn off EAX completely?

[CreativeOne]

Hey all,

I work for creative labs, and I have a 5.1 Platinum with a Cambridge 3500 dolby speaker system at home. I'll check this out later and let you know what i find.

Max payne didnt use any EAX. It's all direct Sound 3d. Unless you have a reverb set through the soundblaster software, all the sounds you're getting are through direct sound.

In the meantime, see if there's any difference in the way digital sounds vs. analog. i find digital to be a bit more reliable.

let me know what happens

[This message has been edited by CreativeOne (edited 07-26-2001).]

[Double T]

how do you set it to do digital only? I don't have the cambridge speakers so my output is analog.

I don't have any EAX presets at all.

Thanks for looking this up!

[CreativeOne]

Well, assuming that your speakers support digital out, try it.


While you're at it, check to make sure that you have the proper speaker setup selected. In windows 9x, go to control panel > multimedia > audio > advanced properties.

after that, go into the soundblaster mixer, and do the speaker test. Make sure that all your speakers sound proper during that test.

creative1

[EoRaptor]

In the sound setup options in game, you may enable Creative EAX 2 if you want. it sounds better than the defualt fast 2d miles positional, especially with a quadrophonic speaker setup.