Guild Wars 2

I am not really sure if this is a bug, but I certainly hope it is.

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.