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New Rookie

4 months ago

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Spatial Audio not recognized (3D Audio)

Can't activate spatial audio for some reason. The game is badly coded when it comes to device recognition, so it won't accept external audio interfaces.

One fix for some is to switch to windows sonic in windows, then select 3D audio in game and then you switch to Dolby or DTS. Not sure if it works with audio interfaces too. I need to do some testing.

KrueII
4 months ago
I might have found a fix? I just accidentally had spatial audio of when launching the game, went into audio setting, tabbed out and enabled Dolby Atmos and now it looks like this (see pic). I can leave the audio setting and go back in and it's still enabled. Very weird. Hope this helps someone.

24 Replies

NCZ_LocalDaddy
Rising Traveler
4 months ago
Same issue. Actually I had never bothered with spatial audio before BF6 because I usually play on 5.1 speakers.
I tried out Windows Sonic with my headset last night and BF6 let me turn on Spatial Audio no problem and it was pretty nice. I heard Atmos is better so I installed that and BF6 said unsupported format, reverted to 3d Headphones.... and now it's always Unsupported Format even if I use Windows Sonic... I can't get Spatial Audio back at all. Really sucks.

Spatial Audio was recognized and working fine for me when all I had was Windows Sonic and had never installed Dolby or anything else. Now nothing works.
Phantom_Japan
New Novice
4 months ago
Same issue here, it literally mentions Dolby Atmos in the game settings so why it doesn't recognise it is beyond me, this feels more like a beta right now. The beta felt like an Alpha and the real release feels like a Beta, hope this gets fixed soon.
Shaa_Azunaburu
New Rookie
4 months ago
Yea same thing here.
Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Windows Sonic all revert to 3D Headphones from Spatial Audio and then if you exit the game and launch it again, the Audio reverts to Stereo from 3D Headphones and says the same thing "Unsupported" or whatever.
I've posted this on Reddit and on the discord and nobody pays any attention at all.
KrueII
New Rookie
4 months ago
Tested both DTS and Dolby Atmos btw.