Surround sound in Doom 3

Glass · August 4th, 2004

I have an Audigy 2 ZS with latest drivers and a 7.1 sound system, and I have 7.1 surround slected in Windows control panel, but when I try to select surround within Doom 3's menu, it says something like 'No surround system detected. Check Windows control panel settings' so I double checked and I definitely have 7.1 surround slected in there. I even tried manually changing the numberofSpeakers line in the DoomConfig.cfg file from 2 to 5, 6, and 7 and making the file read only, but I still can't get positional audio. Any ideas?

**Electronic Punk** · August 4th, 2004

Sounds like (forgive the pun) there are a few issues with Doom III's sound at the moment.

Did you get the new ZS drivers from Creative?
(ie less than a week old)

Wrathchild · August 5th, 2004

Had the same problem, same sound card. When I checked my speaker settings in the Creative speaker settings menu (not the Windows applet) I noticed that 2 speakers was selected for some reason. I switched it to 5.1 speakers, closed it, went into Doom, selected Surround speakers and voila! It worked fine. Hope that helps.

-Wrath

apu95 · August 5th, 2004

yeah i had the same thing, but im running on 4.1...for some reason Doom 3 doesnt consider 4.1 as surround, so i had to change the windows control panel to 5.1 (it doesnt have 4.1, i dont know why) and it worked

Nismo83 · August 15th, 2004

Originally Posted by Wrathchild

Had the same problem, same sound card. When I checked my speaker settings in the Creative speaker settings menu (not the Windows applet) I noticed that 2 speakers was selected for some reason. I switched it to 5.1 speakers, closed it, went into Doom, selected Surround speakers and voila! It worked fine. Hope that helps.

-Wrath

what driver are u using? I'm using the same card as yours and yes... my creative applet is showing 5.1 but getting distorted then cut off sound when i play in surround mode.

August 4th, 2004	Top \| #1
Glass sgàthan ìnnleachd Joined: January 2004 Location: A box with holes in it Posts: 101 Reputation: 0 Power: 104	Surround sound in Doom 3 I have an Audigy 2 ZS with latest drivers and a 7.1 sound system, and I have 7.1 surround slected in Windows control panel, but when I try to select surround within Doom 3's menu, it says something like 'No surround system detected. Check Windows control panel settings' so I double checked and I definitely have 7.1 surround slected in there. I even tried manually changing the numberofSpeakers line in the DoomConfig.cfg file from 2 to 5, 6, and 7 and making the file read only, but I still can't get positional audio. Any ideas? Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3 GHz \| Asus P5N32E-SLI nForce 680i \| 2x1024MB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-6400 \| XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640MB Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS \| LG GSA-4163B DL DVD±RW/RAM \| Windows XP Professional 32-bit 2x400GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 \| 300GB Maxtor MaXLine II \| 250GB Western Digital SATA-150 8MB \| 250GB Maxtor SATA-150 8MB \| 500GB Seagate SV35 16MB

August 5th, 2004	Top \| #4
apu95 Caffeine-->Code Converter Joined: April 2002 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 502 Reputation: 60 Power: 128	yeah i had the same thing, but im running on 4.1...for some reason Doom 3 doesnt consider 4.1 as surround, so i had to change the windows control panel to 5.1 (it doesnt have 4.1, i dont know why) and it worked Telepathic: Q6600, 4 GB, HD3650, Audigy, Win7 64 Phantom: P4 3.0 800 FSB, D865GBFL, 512 DDR400, Radeon 9200 128, SB Live 5.1, WD 80gb, 16x DVD, Samsung SW-204B 40x24x40 CD-RW Psychic: ASUS M50SV: Core 2 Duo T8100, 3GB DDR2, nVidia 9500GS, 250GB (Win7), BluRay, 802.11b/g/n

August 15th, 2004	Top \| #5
Nismo83 OSNN AZN Addict Joined: March 2004 Posts: 383 Reputation: 10 Power: 103	Originally Posted by Wrathchild Had the same problem, same sound card. When I checked my speaker settings in the Creative speaker settings menu (not the Windows applet) I noticed that 2 speakers was selected for some reason. I switched it to 5.1 speakers, closed it, went into Doom, selected Surround speakers and voila! It worked fine. Hope that helps. -Wrath what driver are u using? I'm using the same card as yours and yes... my creative applet is showing 5.1 but getting distorted then cut off sound when i play in surround mode. CPU \| AMD64 3000+ VENICE - RAM \| 1GB DDR 333MHz HYNIX KVR - MOBO \| GIGABYTE K8NSC - HDD \| 200GB MAXTOR HDD, 120GB WD HDD, 80GB WD HDD, 40GB MAXTOR HDD - GFX \| 256MB DDR3 GIGABYTE ATI X800PRO - SOUND \| CREATIVE AUDIGY2ZS PLATINUM PRO - SPEAKER \| LOGITECH Z680 DTS/DD - PSU \| THERMALTAKE 420W PSU - OPTICAL \| ASUS CDRW, ASUS DVD-ROM - MONITOR \| VIEWSONIC E90f+ 19" FLAT - ROUTER \| CNet ADSL ROUTER MODEM

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August 4th, 2004	Top \| #2
Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,510 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 349	Sounds like (forgive the pun) there are a few issues with Doom III's sound at the moment. Did you get the new ZS drivers from Creative? (ie less than a week old)

August 5th, 2004	Top \| #3
Wrathchild OSNN Senior Addict Joined: February 2004 Posts: 338 Reputation: 40 Power: 105	Had the same problem, same sound card. When I checked my speaker settings in the Creative speaker settings menu (not the Windows applet) I noticed that 2 speakers was selected for some reason. I switched it to 5.1 speakers, closed it, went into Doom, selected Surround speakers and voila! It worked fine. Hope that helps. -Wrath