HL2 problem with 5.1 speakers

[Cawchy87]

When i look directly at someone when they are talking there is a horrible echo and delay from the left to the right (and visa versa). I always have to look sideways from someone when they are talking to aviod this.

The game sounds great, and so do those things you shoot (with like the ventelators that talk in a computer voice). But the voice overs make me want to mute the game!

CS:Source runs great with no such problems as does the in game voice chat.

Teamspeak and Ventrillo work great as well with no echo.

Any one else have this problem? Or does anyone know a fix for it?

Thanks for your replies!

 

[Cawchy87]

still sucks

 

[Modeps]

a little off topic, but I was about to say you arent supposed to play these games, you're too young... then I realized that you're probably 17, and I felt old. good luck youngster.

 

[erikistired]

weird. do you have a creative labs card? might see if cmss is enabled, it made my headphones sound all whack til i turned it off.

 

[imported_thomase]

If you have an Audigy or Audigy 2, try setting your speaker settings in half life 2 to 5.1. Set the windows speaker setup to 5.1 as well. Enable CMSS1 and set creative speaker settings to headphones. You may have to disable synchronization between windows and creative speakers settings.

The above setup works well (for me at least) for Doom 3 which like HL2 does not use DirectSound 3D. Unless of course, if Half Life 2 has a special headphones mode that provides virtual surround (I don't have it so I wouldn't know). In that case I would disable CMSS and set your Windows and Creative settings to headphones.

Take a look at the following:

http://dmzweb3.europe.creative...centric:,Kb=ww_english

Click on Audio Playback Technologies and search for CMSS.

 

[imported_thomase]

Sorry, the link is bad.

Go to www.creative.com. Click on support. Go to the Knowledge Base. Search for "glossary". Click on the first result " Sound Blaster Audio Technologies Glossary". Click on "Audio Playback Technologies" and text search for CMSS. There is a good description that details exactly what the different modes and versions of CMSS do.