No Sound from Center Channel on Game Pass Games

Discus and support No Sound from Center Channel on Game Pass Games in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; I've been through a variety of Game Pass games I have downloaded troubleshooting, seeing if any of them had sound coming from the center channel. I... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by King_Stannis, Sep 2, 2020.

  1. King_Stannis
    King_Stannis Guest

    No Sound from Center Channel on Game Pass Games


    I've been through a variety of Game Pass games I have downloaded troubleshooting, seeing if any of them had sound coming from the center channel. I first noticed the problem while playing The Outer Worlds. I get sound from my L/R and SL/SR but not the center.
    Netflix and blu-rays have sound coming from the center, as do games I've paid for and downloaded. When I'm in the console menus, I get the menu sound from the center speaker, too. All of my settings are correct, and I've done a hard console reset. I've deleted
    all the Game Pass games, and redownloaded The Outer Worlds, but that didn't fix the problem either. The only thing I could think of is something is off from the last console update I received on 8/29. I don't remember the Game Pass games not having full surround
    sound coming from all the speakers prior to then.

    Any ideas? Thanks.

    edit...meant to say The Outer Worlds

    :)
     
    King_Stannis, Sep 2, 2020
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  2. BDawg0901 Win User

    No Center Channel in some games?

    I just noticed the same issue while using Netflix. The games I have played so far have center channel, but have noticed no center channel on Netflix and NFL so far. Sounds like there are more out there though with issues.
  3. Zacabeb Win User

    Is DD 5.1 Gimped on 360?

    It's probably the way the game uses its audio API. Some sounds may be prerecorded in stereo and just played back directly over left and right. Some mono sound sources may be mixed directly into a specific output channel or panned into a subset of the output
    channels to reduce sound processing overhead. It's been quite common for games to be mixed as 4.0 and have no interior panning, meaning each sound only has to be panned to 2 channels at a time rather than all 5.

    Sound engineers on games have been constantly fighting to get the system resources they need in a world where graphics and physics tend to be given priority. If you meet someone who's in their 30s and working in games, they're likely in either sound or in QA.
    If they're bald/balding, they're probably designers. ;)

    Another reason for not outputting sounds over the center channel may be artistic - since many home theaters are set up with a smaller center speaker that has lesser mid-bass performance than the main speakers and bass management is often maladjusted, developers
    may choose to put high-impact sounds into left and right as 'phantom' center in order to preserve the mid-bass, as well as mix directional high-impact sounds as 4.0 or 4.1 excluding the center.
  4. SwordofWhedon Win User

    My discs voices won't work

    Sounds like you have it set up for 5.1 sound and dint have it. . All that stuff would go to the center channel. Make sure you’re set to stereo in the system and game settings
  5. Mr.beefy Win User

    Xbox One X Speaker Audio Settings Issue

    Hello everyone

    My xbox is connected to my onkyo (HT-R550) with a optical cable. With movies i get sound through all speakers but with games i only get sound through the front and surround speakers but not the center channel speaker.

    Xbox audio settings :

    Optical audio out > bitstream

    Bitstream format > dolby digital

    Now i have tried switching to DTS but the center speaker still does not produce any sound.

    The only way i got the center speaker to work was when i switched to stereo uncompressed but i am not pleased with the overall sound quality.

    My question is is it normal for games not to produce sound through the center channel speaker when a xbox is connected with a optical cable to a receiver and dolby digital is selected on the xbox?
  6. MatthewSchaeffer Win User

    No center channel sound on Ghosts

    I'm using HDMI and it lowers the center channel in FORZA and mutes it during video playback. So pissed right now.
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