Anyone else feel like CS2 audio is super muffled?

[Rick]

Normally I have the best sound awareness of anyone I play with in CSGO. In CS2 I feel like I have pillows over my ears, can barely hear people running right at me now.

[death]

yes i feel the same

[Dr.Kimble]

me too

[Doktor Schnabel von Rom]

i feel quite the opposite, like pillows have been taken away from my ears.

[Demon Dean]

Originally posted by Rick:

Normally I have the best sound awareness of anyone I play with in CSGO. In CS2 I feel like I have pillows over my ears, can barely hear people running right at me now.

Completely agree I was the same in Csgo could hear them coming from a mile away and exactly where from, now I’m getting sprayed from right behind me and can’t hear it

[Thricycle]

Originally posted by Rick:

Normally I have the best sound awareness of anyone I play with in CSGO. In CS2 I feel like I have pillows over my ears, can barely hear people running right at me now.

Yep, its because of the forced 3D sound processing. Tries to mimic surround sound, which on most audio devices (yes even extremely expensive equipment) tends to sound terrible. I struggle to hear anything in the game now and the imaging or where the sounds come from is less accurate than my headphones without the sound processing.

This was a setting in CS:GO, just it was optional, you could turn it off, which for most people is much better than on. It's forced on in this game and sounds terrible. As far as i'm aware there is no way to turn it off, which I hope they change it

[76561199515353229]

The stereo spacing is trash in cs 2. Sounds sounds muffled and its so hard to pin point where people are.

[Kryo]

Try changing your output device from "default device" to your actual device. Helped me

[Sormi T™]

Originally posted by Kase:

Try changing your output device from "default device" to your actual device. Helped me

That actually worked thanks!

Upgraded GPU and for some reason my cs2 sounds started sounding super muffled and was wondering wtf was that. This fixed it.

[.P]

try playing with the EQ profile and 3d sound rendering(perspective rendering) and turning up your volume

[ChetHoppens]

Originally posted by Kase:

Try changing your output device from "default device" to your actual device. Helped me

That helped right away. Something so simple is just being overlooked. Kudos

[mođo mice]

Originally posted by Kase:

Try changing your output device from "default device" to your actual device. Helped me

This worked for me too, instantly clean and crisp sound

[crunch]

did you find a fix for this?

[ChetHoppens]

Select your device in steam audio settings. Choose 'crisp' under what type of audio you want. See if that helps. You won't get like studio quality cinematic sounds like we do in WorldofTanks .... instead this company muffled the sound in general to 'save' your ears, cuz we're too stupid to change volumes. Is what I've found.