06-02-2013, 06:03 AM
(06-01-2013, 10:57 PM)Variable link Wrote: I have only that-
Audio channel options: 2/4/6/8 channels.
(see bottom of my previous post).
I currently have this on 2 Channels, becuase I supposed that since I have a stereo headphones, I get only two channels.
OK, so 5.1 would be 6 channels and 7.1 would be 8 channels. I don't know if any games, including ArmA, use 7.1 or only 5.1 but I don't think it will do any harm to leave it on 8 channels.
Think of this setting as the amount of channels the game sees that it can output and then the other setting, Analogue Out, which you have set to headphones, controls the actual output from the card. So you need a multi-channel signal going from the game to the card and then it mixes that down into stereo/virtual surround sound to send to your headphones.
ArmA doesn't have a setting to control whether it outputs in stereo or multi-channel and will automatically detect what the soundcard is set to but some games do and with those you need to set them to 5.1/7.1 for the virtual surround sound to work.