Guild Wars 2

Don’t know if this should go under tech issues or not. This would not be a tech issue if I am just now noticing the absence of surround sound and that is just the way it is.

I don’t know if my rear speakers (I have a 4.1 system) played audio from GW2 since launch, I always assumed so. I have never noticed any odd dead zones from panning with the camera or absent background audio, but after yesterday’s patch things started to sound odd to me.

I did some checking and I noticed my two rear speakers do not play any audio when GW2 is active. However, using my audio software I can confirm they are active and play sounds just fine. I double checked through Windows 7 audio panel and they are set correctly and again confirmed that they can play audio. I fired up another game that supports surround and it to used the rear speakers. When I started GW2 though only the front two speaker produce anything.

Now, maybe it has done this all along and I just noticed today, but as I said earlier I began noticing immediately after the patch that things began to sound a little off. It wasn’t until the arrival of the airship at the grove and I panned the camera to look 180 degrees from it that I noticed I could not hear the hum of the airships engines through my back speakers.

Since then I have troubleshooted everything I can think of and confirmed it is not my PC, soundcard, drivers, or speaker setup/wiring. So I am curious has there not been support for surround sound this whole time and I am just noticing now, or has something recently changed? Any suggestions would be appreciated, it is weird playing this way that is why I assume something has changed.

Thanks

I am having the same issue it seems.

I have a 5.1 setup using a digital output from a dedicated sound card to a receiver.

When Guildwars is active, nothing is coming out of the rear speakers in 5.1 surround mode. I can confirm that the speakers work by switching the receiver to 5 speaker stereo mode.

I tried fiddling with the audio options in game, but that didn’t help. I can’t say for certain whether it ever worked in this game, but it certainly isn’t working now.

Everything other game works fine in surround.

I’m running Windows 7 64 bit, and have a Creative X-fi Fatal1ty sound card.