What do decent games with competent programmers do ? They go and mix their audio streams together into a common format before sending it to the audio renderer in windows. What that means is, my receiver decodes the music signal and skips the effects and voices cause they are in a different format. On top of that the streams are completely different channel formats, the music is stereo, the effects are multichannel, that is something that ONLY works on a pure PC setup, as soon as you send your audio over optical, digital or HDMI to a receiver this doesn't work.

When the music stops my receiver switches modes and actually plays sounds and voices till the music starts again. FNV messes this up by creating more than one audio stream and on top of that in different formats and just spams them to the audio renderer at the same time.Īt that point your receiver gets a signal that he recognizes and decodes and a signal that is already decoded PCM data at the same time, that doesn't work and he only plays the signal he decodes.

When you use HDMI or optical your receiver does the decoding of some audio formats.

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