Battlefield 4 no proper 5.1 sound
Battlefield 4 sound system is so weird with 5.1 audio. Typically with 5.1 surround sound you get voices from center speaker when you are looking towards characters who speak and when you turn around,...
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I, along with several others, have been reporting a sound issue in the Battlefield 4 PC forums. I just found out about this forum and thought I would post this here as well.
On large, open maps, the sound is going in and out constantly. It appears to mostly happen when you in a vehicle (tank, heli, etc.). When the sound goes out, sometimes all sound stops. Sometimes, most of the sounds stop but you may be able to hear or two sounds. As an example, if you are in a tank and fire, you will hear the BOOM of the fire but you can't hear the tank sound. This issue happens while you are on foot as well but seems more pronounced in a vehicle. There are times when the sound goes out all together.
When the sound problem happens, the duration is for a fairly long period of time. Additionally, it typically switches back to working sound then to problem, then back and forth.
I have made adjustments to my sound settings such as change from HiFi to home theater to war tapes. This has not helped. I will say I haven't tried stereo versus surround system though.
I thought at first this was just my setup. However, several people in a game were complaining about it. From what I can tell, it doesn't matter what brand of sound card you have or if you are using onboard sound, everyone is having this problem. Additionally, this doesn't happen on an isolated map, it is multiple maps. I will say the maps which don't have large open spaces seem to do better than maps with large open spaces.
Thanks.
