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alexgrbell
5 years ago
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No surround sound on ME1 on PC

I'm playing the origin version of Legendary edition but there's no surround sound coming through on ME1. Seems to be working on 2 and 3 just fine. Anyone know where the sound options for surround are...
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Fred_vdp
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5 years ago
@alexgrbell wrote:

I found a fix. I followed all the steps and now have surround in ME1. Happy days!

https://steamlists.com/mass-effect-legendary-edition-mass-effect-1-surround-sound-fix/

Where it says Windows/WOW64 it actually means Windows/sysWOW64, but other than that its spot on.

Now to kill me some reapers!

I noticed that the BIOEngine.ini file also has a heading for [ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice], which we used in the vanilla ME1 to get surround sound. Can anyone apply this tweak straight to the config file and see if that fixes it?

The config file is in Origin Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\BioGame\Config

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alexgrbell
5 years ago

I tried just fixing the bioengine.ini like I did with the original ME1 but it didn't work. I had to do all the steps from the fix I found before I got surround. It seems the windows 10 files are part of the problem now.

    • crgmls's avatar
      crgmls
      New Novice
      5 years ago

      I've tried this fix but it doesn't work for me - it does enable my rear speakers, but there's still an issue with the center channel and no sound coming from it.
      Another issue with the guide is that I don't have a separate BIOEngine.ini config file - I had to use a tool to unpack a bin file to get to the inis.

      • Teri3501's avatar
        Teri3501
        5 years ago

        Great!  🙂  I got it to work.  But now, I can't record my gameplay with Bandicam. ☹️  Anyone have advice on that??   Bandicam quit recording and gave me a failure to capture sound error just after I used the steps to fix.

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