Hi Allen, No, you won't specifically need a surround sound setup. It is one of those cases where if you have a surround sound setup the game certainly should be able to use it to full effect, but if you don't it will fall back to simple 2d stereo panning. If you have ever played Shades of Doom or Tank Commander basicly that's what happens when you put on a set of regular stereo headphones. They aren't surround sound so they reproduce the sound in a simple 2d stereo format which works, you can play the game, but you lose the full effect of the surround sound. Make sense? Eventually, when Streemway is converted to XAudio2 I'll look into supporting 5.1 and 7.1 sound cards and speaker setups more specifically, but for the time being I'm not going to require that high tech for the fps version of MOTA. Especially, since I know the average gamer out here has pretty generic audio hardware that gets shipped in Compaqs, HP, Gateway, etc type computers. In other words cheap e-machine hardware that gets the job done but isn't spectacular. So I have to take that into account when designing my games.
On 6/24/10, Allen <allen.j...@foxvalley.net> wrote: > Hi, Thomas, > > Will the user of the 3d version need to have a surround sound speaker system > in oerder to play? > > Thanks > > Allen --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
