New Soundcard and no Subwoofer Signal in BS

[Terrorvogel]

Hi,

 

due to lots of problems with my X-Fi, i bought an Asus Xonar DX Pcie-e sound card.

But now in Black Shark i can´t get any signal out of the subwoofer output into my Buttkicker Gamer 2. In Xonar Audio Center i activated/deactivated 7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter. In A-10C (and all other games) everything works fine with sub and Buttkicker.

 

I believe BS does not have surround sound engine but why has the subwoofer-out worked in BS with my old X-fi soundcard?

 

Didn´t made a new install of BS after changing to new soundcard. Maybe someone can tell me in which .lua i can check/change to the right sounddevice.

 

Greets

Terrorvogel

[EtherealN]

BS should interface with your hardware via DirectSound. As long as the sub channel goes to DirectX it is up to the sound card driver and your output links to make it happen, so to speak.

 

Have you verified that the subwoofer channel does get anything at all - that is, is the issue solely related to your buttkicker, or a more general issue?

[Terrorvogel]

When now playing A-10C the sub-out is working fine with buttkicker. Other games too. So it can´t be buttkicker or soundcard issue directly...

 

In Black Shark, normal sound is only comming out of Headset (front-out) and not @ sub-out -->so no buttkick.

 

I reinstalled DX9 June2010 again but the issue still persists. Why do all other games work but BS not?

 

What else can i try?

 

Greets

Terrorvogel

[Nate--IRL--]

IIRC BS is 2 channel only - what may have been happening was the creative drivers were spreading the sound to the other channels. See if the New sound card drivers have such an option.

 

Nate

[Terrorvogel]

Thx a lot Nate, you brought me to the right direction:thumbup:

 

I found out that there are some troubles with Asus´s standard drivers for Xonar DX with upmixing stereo stuff.

 

So every one who has troubles with this nice soundcard and Black Shark here is the solution:

 

Download Asus Xonar Unified Driver:http://brainbit.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/

 

Then uninstall old genuine Asus Xonar drivers in Win7 as usual and choose the option to delete drivers completely -->reboot

 

After that, install the downloaded unified driver with the options in my screenshots and do my configuration settings. If having problems with driver signature during install, read at download link.

 

Then it should be no problem with Xonar and additional subwoofer (or Buttkicker) with Black Shark stereo sound.

 

The first screenshot shows the advantages of the unified drivers options (which you have to choose before install).

The biggest, in my opinion, is the low latency driver which is also included in C-Media option. This probably can solve some stutter issues in aplications. Just try out...

 

Greets

Terrorvogel