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That's so weird, on Youtube every single video sounds perfect. Except for the one I tried to show off because I was showing it in-game. It just sounds completely reversed to me. If it helps, I had the Turtle Beach PX22 about three years ago from what I remember. That had absolutely no issues aside from well... they aren't exactly durable. Which prompted me to buy Hyper X Cloud II. Now immediately when buying this I could immediently notice that when playing Left 4 Dead 2 that something was wrong (the PX22 didn't have this problem, I've played over 5,000 hours of L4D2 and trust me, I KNOW something is up). It just felt reversed. (I tried support which told me to download the latest firmware. Didn't help at all.) At the time I loved the Cloud II's because the microphone and sound was excellent, so I kept them and just swapped the L channel to R and vice versa using Equalizer APO. Now the game audio worked perfectly for all my games! Except that out of anything game related like Youtube it would just sound reversed. Well, except from the recordings of the videos I DID while these L-R channels were swapped, like this one below: Go about 3:00 in and you can probably do a test to hear if it's working properly. But I can probably guess that for you guys this one is reversed because of the channel swapping I did. Funny, because it sounds very reasonable to me, I know what's coming and can react to that location. Now I bought HyperX Cloud Alpha because I wanted this problem to go away (it obviously didn't). My first assumption was the headphones so I just figured to buy another pair (probably shouldn't have brought the same company but the sound feels amazing when it bloody works right, and they're super durable, Cloud II still has zero issues aside from this problem. Anyway, I'm on a new OS now and I don't have that software, and I'm on a new hard drive. The other one I used isn't connected anymore. As for your second question, I've muted one side and it still sounds reversed. So if I mute the right channel and all the sound is coming from the left, I can still feel it from the right. And it's vice versa if I mute left and try right, it 'feels' like it's' coming from the left. Can you suggest any free games I could possibly test? I'm literally broke at the moment and frankly, I don't want to buy games merely for testing. The headset alone set me back £70. Edit: I just tried my TV, which is attatched through HDMI and that works fine for both in and out of games.

I promise, I'm not going insane. I can't quite describe it, I can hear the sound coming from the left side (which is where the survivors are at during the start of the game) but it feels like it's on the back right. When watching the recording on Youtube, I can specifically hear that it's in reverse. If it helps, another thread I found with similar results: https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/my-directional-sound-is-completely-opposite-when-playing-games-help.396969/

Spatial audio is set to off, but just in case I enabled it as well but that didn't help anything. As for ingame audio check, I've selected all that was available, Headphones, 2 Speakers, 4 Speakers, 5.1, 7.1, ect. I don't have a massive library of games to test this on but I've noticed it on games like Spore as well (I know, not the most recent of games). Everything just feels like it's in reverse. Hearing somebody shoot front right when it's actually happening back left. I tried reinstalling DirectX, not sure I did it correctly to be honest, I'm confused how to actually 'reinstall' it. I've uploaded a Youtube video showing it in action. I play the video above for about 25 seconds then go into Left 4 Dead 2, and you can immediately notice that the sound is completely reversed. Like the characters are on the right of me when they're actually on the left. I've also shown the sound options, if you want me to show something else related like device manager or something, just let me know.

Before I continue, can I just say that Microsoft is a pain? Went into msconfig to set safe mode to boot automatically, so I go into safe mode and then it asks for a password to get INTO safe mode and that isn't the password to the normal boot mode. It's actually from your Microsoft account (which I doubt a lot of people would've known), how bloody confusing! Luckily I typed a bunch of passwords and got lucky. I used that application and selected 'GPU' (there was an audio one as well but I didn't use that just as precaution from what happened last time and given you didn't tell me to do it). It did remove the drivers from the GPU, so I tested a game (in this case L4D2) and issue still persists. So I've reinstalled my graphics drivers again. Specs are below: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics 3.50 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB System: Windows 10 Home 64 bit Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H-CF Sound seems to be from Nvidia High Definition Audio and Realtek High Definition Audio If you need more let me know.

Yeah, I did that before you posted and Windows didn't load up again. I've reinstalled Windows now with a blank state just to see if that could fix the problem to no avail. If the sound is working perfectly while out of games, then why is it suddenly deciding to reverse it? Surely something else must be controlling how it happens.

So I've been having this issue for couple years now and I've looked all over the net for similar reports, I've found several of them, but nobody could conclude the issue. Basically while I am gaming the left-right audio is completely reversed. So things on the right side sound as if they're coming from the left and vice versa. Obviously this is a very frustrating issue. But when I'm watching a video on Youtube or anything on the web, the sound is perfect. Left is left and right is right. It only reverses when I game, I've tested two oldish games, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty 1 (yeah I don't have a great selection of FPS). This is a thread on tom's Hardware that another user was facing this problem: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/reversed-audio-in-all-games-fine-in-windows-youtube.2744293/ I have two headphones and I just bought a new one today. My previous one was the Hyperx Cloud II. The new one is Hyperx Cloud Alpha. Both of them are facing the exact same issue so I highly doubt it's the headphones. The only way I've been able to alleviate this annoyance is to either 1. Turn the headphones the other way (now I can't use the mic unless somebody snaps my skull) or I use software to switch the audio from left to right, which is what I did. The audio in games now works perfectly! E-expect that watching a video on Youtube is now... incorrect. Last year back in April, I got a new computer with new parts. (New motherboard, graphics card, CPU and RAM). On the old parts before this, it also had the same problem. So I'm really, really confused. Hyperx Cloud II had a USB that went into the computer, Hyperx Cloud Alpha has audio jacks. I've tried both the back and front of the case, still the same issue. I could really do with some assistance to help fix this bizarre issue. I want to record games, to me the recording sounds fine because I've reversed the audio, but on Youtube it sounds reversed, so any viewers think it's coming in the complete opposite direction. It's annoying!