Guild Wars 2

Since BWE3 the sound system seemed to have changed a lot – At the moment, you can hear players (at times) when their character speaks, or NPC’s who speak, if they’re right next to you.

This also leads to another problem which is with surroundsound – When using abilities the sound comes out of all 5 speakers, this sort of gets a lower quality sound to it, as it does seem to lose some of the deeper tones a bit as they are overwhelmed by the other speakers middle and higher tones.

This problem also persist in cinematics where NPC’s talk or for that matter the NPC, the sound comes out of all 5 speakers here as well – the sound is first and foremost extremely load because of this, or some of the sound is atleast.
I remember in BWE1 Where the sound didden’t come out of all the speakers, combat sound was VERY loud and had to be tuned down a bit indeed, though right now, I barely get the bass effect from when my warrior swings his sword, as you otherwise would hear when watching the warriors skill videos :/

Am I the only one actually experiencing this even ?
I’m using my Nvidia Geforce 480GTX with the newest beta drivers, and its HDMI port for sound.

The game still needs to support 5.1 or 7.1 surround in the first place. I’m looking forward to this.

It actually does – outside cinematics, and besides actually using skills, if there’s someone behind the camera you’ll hear the sound coming from your back speakers, or center if directly infront of you, as well as left and right depending on where obviously.

So yes it does support 5.1 not sure about 7.1 since I havent got a setup for that, but certainly 5.1

Where as when in cinematics, everything just comes out of all the speakers, same thing with using skills…

Really frustrating I must admit.

Sounds odd if its not working for you properly ;o

ZoiN.4280:

It actually does – outside cinematics, and besides actually using skills, if there’s someone behind the camera you’ll hear the sound coming from your back speakers, or center if directly infront of you, as well as left and right depending on where obviously.

So yes it does support 5.1 not sure about 7.1 since I havent got a setup for that, but certainly 5.1

Where as when in cinematics, everything just comes out of all the speakers, same thing with using skills…

Really frustrating I must admit.

Sounds odd if its not working for you properly ;o

It does not have have real surround sound all it has is matrixed surround which is why it sounds of and different everywhere. Voice in game can come from behind yes but turn the camera around and you will find that they do not pan correctly and there is no real sense of distance.

Smackjack.5071:

ZoiN.4280:

It actually does – outside cinematics, and besides actually using skills, if there’s someone behind the camera you’ll hear the sound coming from your back speakers, or center if directly infront of you, as well as left and right depending on where obviously.

So yes it does support 5.1 not sure about 7.1 since I havent got a setup for that, but certainly 5.1

Where as when in cinematics, everything just comes out of all the speakers, same thing with using skills…

Really frustrating I must admit.

Sounds odd if its not working for you properly ;o

It does not have have real surround sound all it has is matrixed surround which is why it sounds of and different everywhere. Voice in game can come from behind yes but turn the camera around and you will find that they do not pan correctly and there is no real sense of distance.

I actually just tried this – seemed to panning correctly to me, the sense of distance is off indeed though.

But if it is matrixed, then I suppose it makes sense that some sounds are just coming out of all your speakers and not where the sound is actually supposed to come out.

Even so, in beta this didden’t seem to be an issue at all, which I find rather odd :/

Maybe it had proper SS in the beta but had performance issues and did not quite gel wit the rest of the code. This is why Tera had a big DD logo on the initial loading screen but no actual DD implemented

The panning issue creeps up from time to time it is not constant.

I just whish GW2 will one day have the excellent SS that TSW has because that was simply stellar !

if your having a problem with certain frequency ranges then i’d suggest reconfig’ing you sound system, you prob have something to high or too low or if you use graph eq settings with sound card software/windows then try disabling it. people thing that every thing has to be the same level when thats not the case. standard sorround sound systems are too limited for my liking, thats why i made my own so i can fine tune it even down to the frequency responce of each speaker and manipulate 40 different frequency ranges.

anyways just find the right balance between your sub and the rest of your speakers.

the best thing to use when configuring your speaker system to get the right balance is classical music, as much as you may hate it classical music uses most to all audible frequencies the human can hear, i don’t tho i choose Pink Floyd from a vinyl :P

Lightvision.9357:

if your having a problem with certain frequency ranges then i’d suggest reconfig’ing you sound system, you prob have something to high or too low or if you use graph eq settings with sound card software/windows then try disabling it. people thing that every thing has to be the same level when thats not the case. standard sorround sound systems are too limited for my liking, thats why i made my own so i can fine tune it even down to the frequency responce of each speaker and manipulate 40 different frequency ranges.

anyways just find the right balance between your sub and the rest of your speakers.

the best thing to use when configuring your speaker system to get the right balance is classical music, as much as you may hate it classical music uses most to all audible frequencies the human can hear, i don’t tho i choose Pink Floyd from a vinyl :P

I’m using a HDMI cable from my graphics card, into a Onkyo Reciever via its HDMI switch on its back (if that brand tells you anything ;P) so I’m not exactly using a regular PC surround setup, now this just handles the surround sound and can go with pretty much every type of sound output format there is.

Secondly, it uses a microphone for adjusting the volume of the speakers by its self, problem here is not the sub or anything else but really that the sound is coming out of all my speakers when they aren’t supposed to, as described earlier.