7.1 Surround - Blue Tracker

#1 - April 13, 2014, 11:11 p.m.

hi everyone, sound noob here. never really cared about the sound, mostly played with sound muted.

but my headset recently got chewed out of existence by a very bad guest kitty. then it occurred to me that it might be cool to get a 7.1 surround sound headset to see if i like it. who knows it may make me play with the sound on a lot more.

incoming noob questions!
does gw2 support 7.1?
do i need a audio card that supports 7.1?
if i have a 7.1 does that also mean i can do 5.1?
is there anything else i should know before i jump?

JamesAckley

#5 - April 15, 2014, 2:03 p.m.

To be clear, Guild Wars 2 does support surround, if you have speakers and hardware to support it, like what nuggant has.

The problem StinVec is referring to is if you set the game to Surround but only have 2 speakers, you will lose sounds since it’s trying to route the audio to speakers that don’t exist.

Hope that helps.
james

JamesAckley

#9 - April 18, 2014, 11:48 a.m.

Thanks nuggant,
I’ll add my .02

The G35 headphones don’t do “discrete” surround. They take the surround signal and use Dobly ProLogic to create “surround” out of 2 speakers. Now some people like this and some don’t, that will have to be your choice, try both. When I’ve used these headphones, I’ve set the G35 to stereo and GW2 to stereo and enjoyed it with as little of modifications from logitech as possible, but that’s just me:).