Headphone Mode better?

[Soulreaver]

Hey does anyone know if the Headphone Mode is better than the normal Audio when using Headphones.

I'm using some decent Sony XM3's and would like the best available Experience.

Google gave no clear answer but some said it Limits the Sound Stage.

[ShadowSorcery]

yes

[Soulreaver]

Okay I'll follow your advise thank you.

[Sam_Bonnet]

Yeah headphone mode is better for headphones

[Salt]

well i cant even turn headphone mode on, unless i connect xbox series controller and plug headphones into controller. Like wtf? with default setting, sound seems unbalanced, feels like using mono stereo or something. is this crap intended? i mean that you have to connect headphones to controller, in order to use headphone mode? any other game has no issues.

[Soulreaver]

Using headphone Mode.
My headphone-audio also turned off when my Xbox Controller turned Off. Both are Bluetooth so there must be some kind of Connection coded into this Game.

[Salt]

Originally posted by AiR-Soulreaver:

Using headphone Mode.
My headphone-audio also turned off when my Xbox Controller turned Off. Both are Bluetooth so there must be some kind of Connection coded into this Game.

Edit: it was a simple solution to make it work - to enable headphone mode in god of war - disable audio enhancements either in audio controlling software or under playback devices - playback device - properties - advanced - uncheck enable audio enhancements

never had issues with any games with using audio enhancements, well 1st time for everything. btw headphone mode seems to fix my issue of audio level balance - for some reason left channel was way louder, so kratos was screaming into my left ear, lol.

[Silver Knight]

Originally posted by LazyTitan330:

Edit: it was a simple solution to make it work - to enable headphone mode in god of war - disable audio enhancements either in audio controlling software or under playback devices - playback device - properties - advanced - uncheck enable audio enhancements

thank you for the info, it is now working for me too with proper stereo effect, before especially dialogue would cut out abruptly when turning away from it

[Mortilla]

The "stereo mode only" label threw me off.

I'll try it as well!

[Paranochat]

Originally posted by Mortilla:

The "stereo mode only" label threw me off.

I'll try it as well!

It might be called that way so people don't use some virtual surround with it, maybe.

[Mortilla]

Originally posted by Paranochat:

It might be called that way so people don't use some virtual surround with it, maybe.

Uh-huh?

I've never seen anything like it, so it confused me.

I use proper headphones and I wouldn't want to use / enable a setting that will prevent me from using said headphones properly.

But why not try it out.

[Necka]

Originally posted by Mortilla:

The "stereo mode only" label threw me off.

I'll try it as well!

Except if you headphones have 6+ physical speakers in each ear: they are Stereo and should be used as such.
Virtual Surround is the worst thing ever made for audio (that and Virtual Surround soundbars)
Especially when they market a $200 piece of plastic as "Dolby Atmos Certified"

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Necka:

Originally posted by Mortilla:

The "stereo mode only" label threw me off.

I'll try it as well!

Except if you headphones have 6+ physical speakers in each ear: they are Stereo and should be used as such.
Virtual Surround is the worst thing ever made for audio (that and Virtual Surround soundbars)
Especially when they market a $200 piece of plastic as "Dolby Atmos Certified"

HRTF based virtual surround is fine if it happens to match your ear shape. If it doesn't it will sound like crap.

[Soul_Killer]

this worked for me, i can now use stereo option in the audio menu.

***("Edit: it was a simple solution to make it work - to enable headphone mode in god of war - disable audio enhancements either in audio controlling software or under playback devices - playback device - properties - advanced - uncheck enable audio enhancements")***

Originally posted by Salt:

Originally posted by AiR-Soulreaver:

Using headphone Mode.
My headphone-audio also turned off when my Xbox Controller turned Off. Both are Bluetooth so there must be some kind of Connection coded into this Game.

Edit: it was a simple solution to make it work - to enable headphone mode in god of war - disable audio enhancements either in audio controlling software or under playback devices - playback device - properties - advanced - uncheck enable audio enhancements

never had issues with any games with using audio enhancements, well 1st time for everything. btw headphone mode seems to fix my issue of audio level balance - for some reason left channel was way louder, so kratos was screaming into my left ear, lol.