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[Fishnets]

I i'm new to the forums and i started having this problem after i installed the ME3 demo.
I have read all the other threads regarding the same issue however i am unable to use the fixes as i am only using headphones(Razer Megalodon)

I can hardly hear the dialogue in both ME2 and ME3 demo now.
If anyone had the same problem where they only use headphones and have no speaker configuration and has solved the problem it would be great to know how you did it.

Thanks in advance.
Matt

Edit: Im using Windows 7 64-bit if that matters.

Modifié par Fishnets, 01 mars 2012 - 11:04 .

[Fishnets]

I have worked out something on my own. I wouldn't really call it a fix but a compromise.
Basically every time i want to play, i need to unplug my headset. Set my windows speaker configuration to stereo (changes itself to 7.1 whenever i plug my headset in), run the game. then plug my headset back in.....Voices return to what they should be.

However this is tedious and if anyone else has a good suggestion i would be inclined to try it out.

Hopefully ME3 will have Audio options in game...not this Auto detect ****

[Navasha]

This is pretty much MOST games on the market for me. Music is way too loud and dialog way too soft.

My own fix for most games is to turn music down to 10-20%. Sound effects down to about 60% and leave dialog at 100%. Then I can turn up the volume of my speakers.

[Turimbar]

Fishnets wrote...

I have worked out something on my own. I wouldn't really call it a fix but a compromise.
Basically every time i want to play, i need to unplug my headset. Set my windows speaker configuration to stereo (changes itself to 7.1 whenever i plug my headset in), run the game. then plug my headset back in.....Voices return to what they should be.

However this is tedious and if anyone else has a good suggestion i would be inclined to try it out.

Hopefully ME3 will have Audio options in game...not this Auto detect ****

The auto-detect switch is most likely based off of your Windows Sound Driver. Not Mass Effect's settings.

What kind of headset do you use? Mainly, does it connect via USB or a 1/8" TRS?

[Drimberly]

I encounter simmilar problems with...erm..these headphones. Likewise unpluging sometimes works, but if anyone is looking for a quick possible answer then I have found...puling the headphones up... works.

[PanzerDivision]

Go to Control Panel->Sound->Playback->Speakers->Properties->Enhancements-> and check Loudness Equalization, uncheck everything else.

Works for me.

[Fredvdp]

PanzerDivision wrote...

Go to Control Panel->Sound->Playback->Speakers->Properties->Enhancements-> and check Loudness Equalization, uncheck everything else.

Works for me.

Sure, but I think we've established that the game should downgrade to stereo in the OP's case but simply doesn't do it. I once tweeted this to Rob Blake but there's no option in the game that does this. DA2 actually did have a force stereo option.

In case someone doesn't know, in a surround sound system the dialog comes from the central speaker. If you get a 5.1 output to a stereo system you will only get the voice echo in the left and right speaker. Ideally the central speaker audio should shift to the stereo speakers but this doesn't happen.

Modifié par Fredvdp, 01 mars 2012 - 07:20 .

[sheppard7]

Change your speaker config in Windows sound settings to Quad speakers. And see if that fixes it. The x.1 sound is always been an issue because in the Mass Effect series the dialogue is sent solely to the center speaker while music and sound effects are sent to all of them. If ME thinks you have a quad setup instead of a x.1, it sends everything to your four satellite speakers equally.

Edit: I've had to do this with only ME games. Dragon Age and TOR didn't have to do this at all and they didn't have drowned out vocals.

Modifié par sheppard7, 02 mars 2012 - 04:22 .

[Fishnets]

Turimbar wrote...

Fishnets wrote...

I have worked out something on my own. I wouldn't really call it a fix but a compromise.
Basically every time i want to play, i need to unplug my headset. Set my windows speaker configuration to stereo (changes itself to 7.1 whenever i plug my headset in), run the game. then plug my headset back in.....Voices return to what they should be.

However this is tedious and if anyone else has a good suggestion i would be inclined to try it out.

Hopefully ME3 will have Audio options in game...not this Auto detect ****

The auto-detect switch is most likely based off of your Windows Sound Driver. Not Mass Effect's settings.

What kind of headset do you use? Mainly, does it connect via USB or a 1/8" TRS?

I use the Razer Megalodon which is USB and has a built in soundcard. It can be set to 2.0 or 7.1 however windows only detects it as 7.1 even when in the 2.0 mode.
So i basically have to unplug it before i run ME2

PanzerDivision wrote...

Go to Control Panel->Sound->Playback->Speakers->Properties->Enhancements-> and check Loudness Equalization, uncheck everything else.

Works for me.

I have actually played around with that. Nothing really works for me for some reason.

sheppard7 wrote...

Change your speaker config in Windows
sound settings to Quad speakers. And see if that fixes it. The x.1 sound
is always been an issue because in the Mass Effect series the dialogue
is sent solely to the center speaker while music and sound effects are
sent to all of them. If ME thinks you have a quad setup instead of a
x.1, it sends everything to your four satellite speakers equally.

Edit: I've
had to do this with only ME games. Dragon Age and TOR didn't have to do
this at all and they didn't have drowned out vocals.

I have tried to change my windows default sound to quad too. But it still sounds like they're talking through a tin can. Only stereo sound appears to the fix.

Anyhow i deem that i have found an adequate solution in unplugging the headphones and then plugging them back in, despite the annoyance this causes. I guess it is better if i play in long sessions cause then i have to do it less often while i'm making all my Shepards to be ready for ME3.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I still hope that there is a force stereo option in ME3 or they somehow fix the dialouge to work for surround sound.

Matt

[FrostedWings]

Go to Control Panel->Sound->Playback->Speakers->Properties->Enhancements-> and check Loudness Equalization, uncheck everything else.

.... work for me also

[FerretQA]

Yeah I had this on ME2 and ME3. I just went into control panel, sound and changed my speaker setting to Stereo or Quad (both work). Seems like 5.1 and 7.1 are not supported.

[AnubisOnly]

Strange... For me 5.1 sound system in me1, me2, and me3 works just fine, I'm sure that ME series on PC support at least 5.1 surround sound system.
I use HDMI cable to receiver from my HD 6970, but also I use motherboard sound card (Realtek ALC889 - digital<>optical) & that works just fine too...

Make sure that you have any codecs uninstalled, + install latest drivers for your sound card.

P.S. I have OpenAL 2.1.0.0 installed. Also I edited coalesced file (in me2 and me3) and in the ''Device Name'' at audio category I added ''Generic Hardware'', or just leaves nothing in that section so games are using ''Direct Hardware'' not software mode.

Modifié par Lucas1987Dion, 15 mars 2012 - 04:43 .

[Shadedsoul]

Lucas1987Dion wrote...

Strange... For me 5.1 sound system in me1, me2, and me3 works just fine, I'm sure that ME series on PC support at least 5.1 surround sound system.
I use HDMI cable to receiver from my HD 6970, but also I use motherboard sound card (Realtek ALC889 - digital<>optical) & that works just fine too...

Make sure that you have any codecs uninstalled, + install latest drivers for your sound card.

P.S. I have OpenAL 2.1.0.0 installed. Also I edited coalesced file (in me2 and me3) and in the ''Device Name'' at audio category I added ''Generic Hardware'', or just leaves nothing in that section so games are using ''Direct Hardware'' not software mode.

Using my Creative X-Fi Xtreme card with a 7.1 Logitech surround sound speaker system OR my Plantronics Gamecom 780 7.1 surround headphones... no issues with audio at all. Didnt have to make a single adjustment after install.

[Cjraid]

In mass effect 3 I am not sure as to what settings to use for my turtle beach headset "in game settings" because when I use it i can only hear people talking through my tv instead of the earphones. Sometimes I hear myself through the t.v as well. Anyone have similar issue like this? If there is a fix can someone let me know what it is? I see different stereo options t choose ffrom but I dont know which one to choose. Any help woukd be appreciated greatly Thanks guys.



More often then not it is the community of gamers that provide one another with fixes to bugs or issues that we are having.

Which tells me that the developers have to step their game up.