Setting the audio output to surround does not actually output in surround

Product: Battlefield 2042
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number 3080
Enter RAM memory size in GB 32
Are you using any software with an overlay? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
Which part of the mode? Conquest
Please select your region Asia
On which server did this happen?
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm)
Summarize your bug Battlefield 2042 doesn't output any audio to the rear speakers in 5.1 sound system. It works fine in battlefield 4
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I set surround sound, speakers/wartape
What happens when the bug occurs? No sound in the rear speakers, There is sound for narrative at the centre speaker. Other sound outputs in the front speakers
What should be happening instead? There should have audio output to the rear speakers

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Battlefield 2042 doesn't output any audio to the rear speakers in 5.1 sound system.

I tried setting the audio as auto or surround.  It doesn't help

The surround sound works fine in battlefield 4.  So it is not a hardware problem on my side.

I have noticed same thing with ROG Theta 7.1 surround headphones.

I can even SEE the problem while game is running using the Armoury Crate ROG software running on side monitor while game is playing. I can see that the RL/RR channels are completely flat and silent - nothing at all coming from them. Only centre FL/FR and SL/SR have sound.

Which means the "surround" from the game ONLY comes from front 180 degrees of sound field - nothing at all from rear 180 degrees.

And yes the main characters voice is barely audible for some reason. Fixed after reboot.

I grabbed below image as BF2042 was running and lots of sound going on around me. Only 4 channels (and centre) do anything.#

The two REAR channels are dead always.

I understand that game says it uses a 5.1 audio mix in surround, but with many of us having as much as eight extra CPU cores sitting around doing nothing (over the 8 it apparently uses) couldn't high-end PC users use at least one extra full core to do proper full 7.1 sound processing?

I don't believe this issue has to do with the cores being used to process audio. It's more likely just not set up properly on the game side (Frostbite). It's likely that QA doesn't test for audio issues such as these, and that the audio team was probably testing on Xbox or PlayStation dev kits. At least... I hope this was the case.

The Battlefield series is known for its audio, and so having this game does not properly output in surround on PC is a shame. Is there anyway to get this bug over to the devs at Dice so that we can guarantee visibility?

Do you set the audio to surround or auto?  It didn't fix it for me in 3.1

DICE

Please fix this

@EA Headquarters

No Season Pass Money from me, if not Fixed

real BS forcing 5.1

I have a 7.2 Surround Setup

I do not want to get killed from behind.

Not sure if this helps PC players but I had a similar problem on Xbox series x. No rear sorround sound. 

My audio set up. (LGSK9Y) 5.1.2 or 7.1.2 with add on rear speakers. (I use 7.1.2) 

My fix was to set the audio on the Xbox system to 5.1. uncompressed. (I had it in Dolby Atmos). The in game audio to speakers and sorround. After I did this the rear speakers started working. Also it seems that the upward firing speakers are still working. (Guessing receiving the Atmos signal maybe.)

If I set it to 7.1 uncompressed the rear stop working. 

So disappointed this game does not support 7.1 the BF series always has some of the best sound.