Re: Titanfall 2 sees my windows audio settings as 7.1 system

@a-karpen Go to C:\Users\[UserName]\Documents\Respawn\Titanfall2\local\settings.cfg and check setting line ("2" - for headphones or stereo)

sound_num_speakers "2"

Hi, thanks for the answer.

I use simple headphones connected straight to 3.5mm jack and no other monitors are attached to the laptop. Sound output goes through Realtek drivers and Nahimic software.

@MADrag0n Yes, I checked the file, the parameter was set as you wrote earlier.

Turning off Nahimic did help by the way, the lags dissapeared. Thank you!

Thank you @a-karpen for coming back to us and marking the accepted solution. Glad to know you are fine now and can enjoy the game. 

And thanks @MADrag0n for the assistance.

Cheers,

Archi

My Titanlfall 2 audio settings also showed 7.1 and unable to change them in-game, even though I have stereo speakers set as default device in the PC sound settings.( I do have a HDMI monitor connected to my laptop but it is not set as the default audio device and my system can output 7.1 over hdmi).

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I looked into this settings file you directed the OP to it already was set to "2".  I changed the value to "1" and then sound worked again.  Titanfall 2 audio settings in-game still say 7.1 with no option to change it in-game.

Anyway don't know what "1" means but at least I can play the game. Sound worked when I first installed the game but the second time I started the game it was not working. Thanks for the info.

Well that didn't last long, the update that installed today killed the sound again and I lost all progress as it overwrote my only saved game file. Changing the setting file - sound_num_speakers "2" value now does nothing.  Pretty poor update system that destroys your sav file in the my document folder!!

Hello,

I am currently running TF2, and for some reason I set the sound_num_speakers to 6 and when running the game through Steam it still shows 7.1 as the Windows Audio Configuration. Now the workaround this was to put the command line prompt as -channels 6 which forces the audio to 5.1. But I do not want to do that in my game launch options in Steam.

I am using a different command line to uncap better FPS in game with the following setting:

+fps_max unlimited -high -novid -highspec

The main reason is not the FPS in which I can use the command line above in the game launch options on Steam. The main problem is getting the audio to be forced to 5.1. I want to change that in the settings.cfg for TF2. Do not want to put the -channels 6 in the game launch options.

How can this be resolved?