Low Sound

[Sparky862]

Okay, so I use my onboard Z77X UP7 Mobo sound card, which is Realtek.

 

Now the problem I am having is odd to describe. When for example playing Rainbow Six Siege, sounds like footsteps are loud, but sounds from breaking barriers are so soft you can barely hear it, sounds like gunfire is so soft.

When I play music on a media player, everything seems fine and the sound is loud and clear.

 

I use a 5.1 Creative Lab speaker setup.

 

I have tried

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1. Testing if all speakers are working correctly

2. Used speaker fill

3. Used loudness equalization

4. Used room correction

5. Boosted sound for my center speaker only

 

Not sure what else I can do really, as everything is boosted to maximum.

 

I have a Xonar DSX Card in my PC as well, I can confirm that I had no issues there at all. Only issue I had was that the dialouges were soft in comparisson to other sound, as if my center speaker was WAY to soft. There was no way for me to adjust the volume on my center speaker as Xonar DSX Audio Manager is minimal and does not allow for setting single speaker volume.

[EnergyEclipse]

12 minutes ago, Sparky862 said:

Okay, so I use my onboard Z77X UP7 Mobo sound card, which is Realtek.

 

Now the problem I am having is odd to describe. When for example playing Rainbow Six Siege, sounds like footsteps are loud, but sounds from breaking barriers are so soft you can barely hear it, sounds like gunfire is so soft.

When I play music on a media player, everything seems fine and the sound is loud and clear.

 

I use a 5.1 Creative Lab speaker setup.

 

I have tried

----------------

1. Testing if all speakers are working correctly

2. Used speaker fill

3. Used loudness equalization

4. Used room correction

5. Boosted sound for my center speaker only

 

Not sure what else I can do really, as everything is boosted to maximum.

 

I have a Xonar DSX Card in my PC as well, I can confirm that I had no issues there at all. Only issue I had was that the dialouges were soft in comparisson to other sound, as if my center speaker was WAY to soft. There was no way for me to adjust the volume on my center speaker as Xonar DSX Audio Manager is minimal and does not allow for setting single speaker volume.

This might be irrelevant to fixing your issue but try this an way. If you are on Windows 10, right click on the speaker icon in the bottom right  > Sounds > Communications > Under were it says 'When Windows detects communications activity set to 'Do nothing'.

 

Also, from the Sound tab you can go to playback, right click your speakers then go to properties, and fiddle around with some of the settings in there. Or search for a driver update for your speakers using the device manager

 

I hope one of these helps! Best of luck

 

 

[Anghammarad]

My guess would be the game messing up the sound. Try the in game sound settings first, then fiddle with the windows ones. *shrugs*

[crosstiger]

Just asking the basics

 

Did you enable 5.1 surround in the audio driver? Did you enable 5.1 or surround sound in R6? Did you test other games? Did you reinstall the driver?

 

I had similar strange issues with my Xonar DG using a 5.1 setup where some games sounded "metallic" or pitched up, if that describes it... I had to change the driver to run general stereo when playing certain games.

[Sparky862]

13 hours ago, crosstiger said:

Just asking the basics

 

Did you enable 5.1 surround in the audio driver? Did you enable 5.1 or surround sound in R6? Did you test other games? Did you reinstall the driver?

 

I had similar strange issues with my Xonar DG using a 5.1 setup where some games sounded "metallic" or pitched up, if that describes it... I had to change the driver to run general stereo when playing certain games.

I did indeed enable 5.1 in sound driver. There is no 5.1 to enable in Rainbow Six.

 

As for other games, I have same issue.

 

All sounds coming from my Center and Rear Speakers are so soft, it almost sounds distant. So other games that produce sound from center and rear speakers suffer same issue.

 

With my DSX Xonar card, i had same issues... Only issue was that all sounds from my center speaker would sound distant. Meaning that all other noise would rip your ears of your head, while dialogs would sound so soft you can barly hear em. If there was a way to adjust my center speaker volume on my DSX card, I would switch back to that card. But DSX Audio Manager is so minimal, you cant do anything with the app.

 

As for the drivers. I downloaded my realtek drivers from my Motherboard Manufacturer, so I would assume I have the correct drivers for my Realtek