5.1 Surround Sound in PC Games

[Skilldo]

I recently connected my motherboard's surround outs to my AV receiver to play some video games. I'm currently playing through Alien Isolation and i'm finding the audio in surround pretty disappointing. I had been playing it through my receiver in stereo which sounded fine and even better with headphones. Surround seems to be severely lacking bass though and the speaker sounds seem too tinny. The woofer is doing some work but it's a lot less than it does in stereo.

I have a Yamaha RVX-361 which is connects the RCA multi inputs to the motherboards 3.5mm jack outputs. I don't have an optical out on the motherboard so trying DDL is not possible. It also doesn't have HDMI inputs to try surround through the graphics card.

I used to use the receiver to play 360 games in surround via optical. The bass on them seemed to be well balanced.

Is this maybe just because the Realtek audio isn't great?

 

[clarkjd]

Could be anything.. Give us a complete list of system components(make & model). Diagnosing a problem via an online forum is, at best, just an educated guess.

 

[sincreator]

Go into the realtek control center and disable bass management, and set it to 5.1 surround as well. If you don't have the options, you either don't have actual surround hooked up, or you have the wrong preset selected. For best results, disable bass management, and turn on speaker fill as well. If you are using actual surround from your PC then you would be using all of the connectors on your audio inputs located on your motherboard.


Another option is too run HDMI audio to your monitor/HDTV and then run audio out to your reciever. Then you will be using AMD/Nvidia sound instead of realtek. This may be better if it is an option for you. HDMI can carry 5.1/7.1.