Directional Audio Issues

[Alex Biebel]

Hi all, I have been dealing with this issue for a while now and I've finally had it. Whenever I play games such as Dark Souls 3 or Metro Las Light Redux, my audio never seems to function properly. To actually hear anything such as bullets firing or people giving essential audio, I have to angle my character as if their ear is right next to the NPC's mouth.

 

It's really annoying but this issue doesn't tranfer to games such as Overwatch or Rising Storm. I have no idea what the root of the problem is but it's been bugging me like crazy. Thanks!

 

I have the Realtek audio driver installed as well as some standard HyperX Cloud 2 headphones. 

[The Flying Sloth]

I've not played either of the games you mention so I don't know if that's just how they are but to me it sounds like your game might be trying to run in true surround sound mode, see if there are any options you can change to make it stereo, as for Overwatch, it uses Binaural stereo for directional audio so it won't have any issues.