Hi all I have a weird thing happening with my sound.
I have a Gigabyte Motherboard a GA-K8N Ultra-9, actually. Which has an onbourd 8 channel sound card. Recently i got some 5.1 speakers, nothing great just a set of true 5.1 micrlab speakers. Set it up and through the Realtek audio options I set it to 6 speakers and test it, all working perfect. Set it to 5.1 speakers in the windows audio options. Great? No.
Been playing FEAR but only have 2 channels working and no option to set any of the other options in the game menu on. Then last night I insatll HL2 and it picks up that i have 5.1 speakers but while playing the game the sound only comes out the center channel?!?
2 channel works fine. So I download the latest audio drivers from the gigabyte website, and after uninstalling and installing new ones and rebooting its up and running. Load up HL2 and presto the main menu has 5.1 sound great i think, so I load a game. With in 2 seconds a message comes up that says "AL Dissabled." on the right. I can run around in the game and have 5.1 sound but everyone is not moving. WTF?? Now the AI is always off even on 2 channel. And in FEAR still Nothing (Only 2 channel but at least sound)
My question is, WTF? and how do I fix this, I can't get the console in HL2, to maybe enable the ai, Is it a driver issue, should I reinstall the game? Is it my speakers (which I don't think so as they work when testing them in windows)
PS I have checked all cables settings etc. maybe i missed something, thinking of going back to old drivers and 2.1 speakers. ARRRHHH!
Hi all I have a weird thing happening with my sound.
I have a Gigabyte Motherboard a GA-K8N Ultra-9, actually. Which has an onbourd 8 channel sound card. Recently i got some 5.1 speakers, nothing great just a set of true 5.1 micrlab speakers. Set it up and through the Realtek audio options I set it to 6 speakers and test it, all working perfect. Set it to 5.1 speakers in the windows audio options. Great? No.
Been playing FEAR but only have 2 channels working and no option to set any of the other options in the game menu on. Then last night I insatll HL2 and it picks up that i have 5.1 speakers but while playing the game the sound only comes out the center channel?!?
2 channel works fine. So I download the latest audio drivers from the gigabyte website, and after uninstalling and installing new ones and rebooting its up and running. Load up HL2 and presto the main menu has 5.1 sound great i think, so I load a game. With in 2 seconds a message comes up that says "AL Dissabled." on the right. I can run around in the game and have 5.1 sound but everyone is not moving. WTF?? Now the AI is always off even on 2 channel. And in FEAR still Nothing (Only 2 channel but at least sound)
My question is, WTF? and how do I fix this, I can't get the console in HL2, to maybe enable the ai, Is it a driver issue, should I reinstall the game? Is it my speakers (which I don't think so as they work when testing them in windows)
PS I have checked all cables settings etc. maybe i missed something, thinking of going back to old drivers and 2.1 speakers. ARRRHHH!
I live with my Girlfriend and everynow and then she nags at me for playing to many games. She understands that i like gaming and let me game. But I don't game that much i'd say about 1-2 hours a day if that. and a total of 5 - 10 hours a week!!!! So you guys playing the amount of time that i am at work. thats alot of gaming IMO.
I don't put gaming before anything in my life. Everything else comes first. But I do believe that you need some you time and gaming is great fun, but don't let be the only thing you do!!! Trust me there are other great, and sometimes better, things to do!
Hey I run it at 1024x768 everything on max 2xAA no FAA except for textures, water settings these at medium and some of the computer settings at medium. Pretty much what the game picked up but i changed one or 2 settings. For exact settings view my post in the 6600GT union here.
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