Add surround 5.1

[ConscriptSpider]

this game is amazing [most of the time] but definitely needs to have surround sound options in the ui so players can feel more immersed and enjoy the game more i rely heavily on surround sound and its one of the reasons i dont like playign the game much anymore, after playing almost any other game its hard to play ark without surround. please add this devs, please!

[Lilkinsly]

My Ark plays in Surround. I am not aware of any problems.

[Nethiuz]

I get 5.1 positional audio, works very well.

[Desertworld]

5.1 Works Great. Maybe You use some wrong Settings somewhere?

[ConscriptSpider]

it isnt an option for basic ausio i use razer surround as my audio saurce and it lets my headphones use surround with stuff liek bass boost,etc it doenst pick up for me and from what ive read it doesnt work for ark unless you have a certain sound car.etc i have realtek high def audio card and use turtle beaches p11 and accourding to the turtle beach support it supports surround

[ConscriptSpider]

does anyone know a way i can manually turn it on by editing a file or somethign like that

[ConscriptSpider]

what aperating systema re you guys using

[Desertworld]

Win10

[ConscriptSpider]

huh, same i looked around in the local files no ini with anything about sound or surround or anything useful

[Desertworld]

I Set Up My Surround Sound Directly in steam, Windows And driver Settings As You usually Do with Anything^^ Works just Fine, You Should Check your Settings. Maybe only selected 2 speakers / 2.1 Sound in Windows?

[Lilkinsly]

I am using win 10 and have a Realtech High Def Audio as well. I use the Logitech DTS Surround sound speaker system. I get 5.1 Surround just fine. Nothing like sitting in my RV in the middle of the woods and hearing a Raptor running up behind you over speakers.

[ConscriptSpider]

after messing around with some stuff i got it to work fine but is there a wasy to make it more defined so i can hear exactly what dirtection its coming from better i hoped on eso and assasins creed and i can always tell where sounds are coming from but on ark 50% of the sounds are played by all speaker drivers and the rest are defined any suggestions?

[2ugly]

Still doesn't work. VIA HD Audio SB/xFi, Logitech DTS 5.1. All other games work with surround that should. I can go into settings and see all speakers and can test them individually. Some of the sounds are working in 5.1, but many still only sound mono. Nothing wrong with my settings. Is it real surround or software driven....might be the issue? Someone said "Set Up My Surround Sound Directly in steam"...never heard of such a thing, but it's worth a look. Sound settings are usually done through your BIOS/OS or the driver software, then the game uses the API to utilize the hardware, which leads me to believe it is software driven which doesn't work well, if at all, unless using headphones....or at least from my experience in the past with software driven surround.

Love it when someone says they got it to work but never explain how. But sounds like he's having the same issue. Only some of the sounds work in 5.1. Seems to be sounds coming from new content that works.

Interesting: While waiting for todays large update 245.1 I was pondering the idea of selecting the Nvidia HD in the Windows sound options to see if there was a difference from using the dedicated sound chip. I decided against it knowing that it runs off the GPU, and with the already bad performance of this game didn't want to hurt it anymore by adding more to the GPU. After the update I loaded up the game, started playing then suddenly was shocked to hear all my dinos coming from behind out of the rear speaker instead of the front. Then noticed the fire crackling behind or to the side as I turned, nicely panning around as it should. Saw a dino coming in the distance about 20 yards away. I turned around and could hear it approaching from behind....................YEAH!!!! They fixed it.

Side note: Steam only has audio settings for voice settings in chat. Nothing about in-game sound settings. Of course the Steam OS would have the settings available, but that's probably 1 gamer out of 10,000.

[ConscriptSpider]

i got it to work a little bit through razer surround audio controller it forces most things to be surround and i also want to try yours it sounds much better than mine

[ConscriptSpider]

cause forcing it to use razer doesnt work as well as if the gme has it so sweet

[2ugly]

Originally posted by Reinjecto:

i got it to work a little bit through razer surround audio controller it forces most things to be surround and i also want to try yours it sounds much better than mine

The software side of the surround may have issues as they fix the hardware side of it. I have never used software surround except for a short period of time. Never really seemed to work with just 2 speakers in a set of headphones. The difference in sounds between front and back only seemed to be loudness and a slight muffle. Only time I got surround out of a set of headphones was when I purchased the Altek Lansing 5.1 headphones which were great, but I could never hear my phone ring when wearing them. I moved and haven't had the need to turn down the volume or wear headphones since.

When surround sound works properly it adds a whole new level of immersion to any game. With it the immersion level jumps about 50% for this game. Even helps negate the bad performance, even though it's still there.

Most PC mobos have decent sound chips on them today. Having a descrete Sound Card like in the past isn't necessary for gaming. I use to always buy the best SB card on the market, using it for other things than games. Last 2 PC builds I just made sure the mobos had good sound chips on them. Bought the cheepo but decent Logitech 5.1 speakers and it's not bad. But it doesn't beat the Cambridge Soundworks digital speaker set on the old PC that IMO sound better than some Bose speakers I've heard. Bad thing is in those days Sound Blaster partnered with Cambridge for that speaker setup and made a propriatary plug that only worked on that 1 SB sound card.

There are some true 5.1 USB headsets out there that work really well. That would probably be the best ticket.