Xonar Dolby Headphone setting Q's

[Andi-C]

I've upgraded my sound card to a Asus Xonar STX, safe to say I love it for Music. It's a dream & really brings through those sounds well & neutral too.

I know its not a gamers card & I have read that most people use the Dolby headphone setting whilst gaming, I've tried the Dobly head phone & hated they way it echo's/reverds even on DH-1 ! It also affects the other people on TS...
Do user people use something else to contain the sound it gives ?

I've played BF4 with 8 channel, 44.hz only & it sounds OK without DH but am I missing the surrounded sound ? Is it just my ears that notice the change ?

I've tried the Xonar driver's & the Uni Xonar driver's are the ones I'm using ATM...

Any body else find it unusable ?

Sorry if this has been asked before, I've been though the net & can't find an answer !

 

[rids57]

You should only use Dolby Headphone with games that don't have a headphone driver of their own. If you do use Dolby Headphone with a game that has it's own headphone driver then you are double processing the sound, so I'm not surprised it sounds awful.

BF4 has it's own headphone driver which creates a binaural stream of the audio, so at the sound card you should set it to 2Ch stereo.

On a game like Skyrim though, which has no headphone driver, 8CH Dolby headphone is the way to go.

 

[Andi-C]

Thanks Rids, came to my call again...

I'll set it to 2Ch next time as it makes sense to let the game do the work & let the card process it to my ears

I'm still confused as to why there are pages of users that use DH for BF4 & happy with the sound DH gives, they must not be using TS too or have no concept of natural/neutral sound ?
Almost every setting I've tried with DH (with BF4 & TS) sound rubbish but I thought it maybe the software error or setting I've over looked.
I can pick up on it as soon as its ticked & a sound is outputted, just nasty to my ears
I'll live with a little EQ tweak but the affect is no for me...

 

[rids57]

For BF4 set it to headphones in game and 2CH and HF on the card and you'll have the best possible sound.

Setting it to 5.1 in game and then 6CH and GAME on the sound card should sound good too. In this case the game engine just sends normal multi-channel audio and the STX processes it down to two channel stereo with positional audio cues added in.