Faulty Speaker Setup Detection

[hatbuster 1]

Hey there, everyone

I've noticed a problem with how the game detects the sound system setup.

I'm running a 5.1 system and everything is set up correctly (meaning it works with every other game just fine), HOWEVER:

I use 2 sound cards:

1.)Onboard for my Headset

2.)Creative XFi Gamer for everything else

For the longest time I didn't have more than stereo audio in the game and it was highly annoying, now I found out what causes it:

The onboard sound is usually set as standard communications device, the XFi as standard device. That's how it should be, that's how every program knows without me doing anything where to put out sound and from which microphone to record.

Setting it like this, however, results in only stereo sound from Arma 2 OA.

To get 5.1 to work, I need to set my XFi both as standard AND standard communications device.

That is obviously faulty behaviour and I'd be very happy to see this fixed, since proper directional audio obviously makes a huge difference and this fix is in no way rational nor findable on the internet.

Thanks in advance

HatBuster

[NeMeSiS 11]

It just needs a 'select audio device' option like most programs have.