Hi Dark, Well, I generally use bog standard stereo headphones myself even though I have 5.1 speakers and headphones etc because these days I generally play games on my laptop and not on my desktop. My laptop has just a basic stereo sound card, and I generally don't want to carry a $125 pair of 5.1 headphones around with me on a jobsite etc as if they get broken or lost I'm up the creek.
Besides that these 5.1 headphones I'm talking about hook up to a USB port, and requires special drivers to be installed so they act as another sound device. That's all well and good if I am playing games on Windows, but so far as I know there aren't Mac or Linux drivers available for these headphones. As a result when I am using Linux on my laptop I usually have to settle for bog standard stereo headphones anyway just because I haven't located a sound driver for my 5.1 headphones that will allow me to use them on non-Windows computers. As for the 5.1 speakers I have on my desktop PC they sound really awesome with GMA Tank Commander or Shades of Doom, but after I got married I've started using headphones to keep from disturbing my wife who might be watching television, reading a book to my son, or some other action where blasting my speakers at full volume would be a destraction. So even though I myself own the proper equipment and technology its not very practical for a lot of reasons. For all of those reasons even though I might support 3d audio in my games I'm in the same boat when it comes to being able to play them using standard stereo headphones or speakers. If it wasn't possible I'd have to find a different way to get access to that same information weather by verbalizing it or adding in other indecators like targeting beeps. On 6/18/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi tom. > > Good to here your adding in the kews, though this is something we've > discussed before. > > it's odd but I can actually play shades of doom far more effectively and > precisely with my headphones than I can on 5.1 speakers, mostly because the > audio is far more immediate. > > Indeed, while I like my 5.1 speakers for watching films, the only games i > use them for are specifically though that do not require large amounts of > sterrio, like Jim kitchin's golf game, and if I'm listening to audio dramas > I always prefer headphones. > > I must admit though my hadphones are rather monstrous sanheisar ones that > actually cost as much as the speakers did, so this might be a factor. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- 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/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
