Does this support Dolby Audio, or is it Stereo only?

[holotron]

I have a Creative Sound Blaster X4 with Dolby Digital Live encoder active.
Output is the SPDIF Interface to my 5.1 AV.
So far I'm only getting Stereo out of it.
Do I need to wait for a patch or is it simply not supported?

[holotron]

Seems like a weird audio mix. When I'm at the snapping turtle I can hear conversation through rear speakers. But interactive conversations always seem stereo.

Apart from that, the conversations sometimes are missing the first word or a fraction of a second of a word, when starting a new sentence.
Feels like some kind of loading or buffering issue.

[JoshuaSquareEnix]

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[holotron]

In Game Language: English
Windows OS Version: Windows 10 22H2 Version 10.0.19045.5011
CPU Model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
GPU Model: Intel Arc A770
RAM: 32 GB
SOUND: Creative Sound Blaster X4

Latest drivers installed for
- Chipset/CPU amd_chipset_software_6.07.22.037 (contains multiple drivers)
- GPU driver 32.0.101.6078
- Audio driver 3.6.3.0

Issue:
Dolby Digital Live encoding, included feature of above mentioned Sound device, is not producing expected 5.1 surround sound result.

Description:
The AV is recognising the 5.1 signal correctly, but positional sound seems to be fixed to Stereo instead of actually being surround.
For example dialogs between Max and Safi always seem to be stereo and not positional.

In addition, conversations sometimes are missing the beginning of a sentence, meaning the first word or a fraction of a second of the first word is inaudible. This feels like a loading or buffering issue of some kind.

Furthermore there are instances where the voice dialog audio level drops significantly compared to a previous sentence, and the opposite as well, where the audio level increases significantly compared to the previous audio level.

It seems like the audio mixing isn't quite right in a couple of instances (there is another thread by someone else mentioning this as well).

[JoshuaSquareEnix]

I'm afraid the game does not support Dolby Audio.