Dolby Atmos? DTX?

[MBinMD]

Why no Dolby Atmos or DTX support?

I know it's petty given all the crashing. Surprised by the absence nonetheless.

[Zer01neDev]

Because PS4 doesn't support it.

[AJdarkfire]

Do you have a Sound Card of producing DTX or Dolby Atmos? Or are you using HDMI out to a TV/Receiver? That's the only reason why I'd see someone asking for those.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by AJdarkfire:

Do you have a Sound Card of producing DTX or Dolby Atmos? Or are you using HDMI out to a TV/Receiver? That's the only reason why I'd see someone asking for those.

Sound cards aren't capable of doing either of those things. They're transported over HDMI and then decoded on audio receiver.

Sound cards are ghetto audio receivers, they do a little bit of decoding (stupidly) and conversion to analog (even more stupid) inside the computer where EFI's going to ruin audio quality. They also don't have enough outputs to make use of Atmos even if you actually did want the sound card doing decoding and amplification.

[AJdarkfire]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Originally posted by AJdarkfire:

Do you have a Sound Card of producing DTX or Dolby Atmos? Or are you using HDMI out to a TV/Receiver? That's the only reason why I'd see someone asking for those.

Sound cards aren't capable of doing either of those things. They're transported over HDMI and then decoded on audio receiver.

Sound cards are ghetto audio receivers, they do a little bit of decoding (stupidly) and conversion to analog (even more stupid) inside the computer where EFI's going to ruin audio quality. They also don't have enough outputs to make use of Atmos even if you actually did want the sound card doing decoding and amplification.

First part was sarcasm, second was me genuinely asking for every thing you already described.

[MBinMD]

Originally posted by AJdarkfire:

Do you have a Sound Card of producing DTX or Dolby Atmos? Or are you using HDMI out to a TV/Receiver? That's the only reason why I'd see someone asking for those.

In Windows 10 you can utilize spatial sound software from DTS or Dolby for headphones. There's a solution built in (Windows Sonic) but it's not nearly as good as the two I mentioned.

You can find them on the Windows Store.
Most major release games make can make use of either one. You can tell if they're active by clicking the speaker icon in the sys tray with a game running or with media playing.

I find DTS headphone X to be better for competitive FPS and Dolby Atmos for headphones better in single player games where you don't need super accurate positional audio.

Netflix app and Hulu app both utilize either software, as does content played in Edge. Dolby is the better of the two for movies and such.