Positional Audio-Activated when not supposed to on G930.

[nitehaw230]

So with the Logitech G930 you can turn on positional audio, which for me, its turned off;same in mumble. Even though its turned off I only receive audio from my left headphone driver, but when i activate it w/o turning it off in mumble it comes out of both. Is there a fix for this or is this just how mumble works?

[kissaki]

I don’t understand.

What makes you think it’s PA that makes it only come on left channel?

[nitehaw230]

As soon as I turn PA on my headset it comes from both drivers.

With it off its left driver only.

[kissaki]

When you’re not running a PA supported Game/Application, PA should not come into effect at all.

Where do you enable PA?

Does the console notify of an application linking for PA?

[nitehaw230]

I activate it off my headset

[kissaki]

Then when you talk about positional audio you are not apparently talking about Mumbles PA?

Because you can’t enable that on your headset.

[nitehaw230]

My g930 has 3d audio (pa), unless it is turned on mumble only sends audio to my left driver. So I can have my game audio screwed up or only listen with one ear, neither which good. Does like make more sense?

[kissaki]

Yeah. Why do you call it PA though? The product page of G930 does not talk of PA at all; just of 7.1 surround sound.

I am not familiar with the logitech headset drivers and settings.

Maybe something is configured incorrectly there!?

[nitehaw230]

Unless my headset has the 7.1 surround on, mumble tries to PA with 1 driver even though it's turned off. Everything is updated aswell. I call it PA b/c that's how mumble treats it.

[kissaki]

I don’t think Mumble does PA.

Does it log into the console that it enables PA?

[Lindee]

I would check your audio control manager to make sure, when not in 7.1, that it's not changing the audio balance.

[nitehaw230]

https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Headphones-Headsets-Microphones/Mumble-right-ear-output-only-Solution-for-G930-G35-headsets/td-p/711950 This is a fix on the logitech forums..

[mkrautz]

Nitehaw230:

Is my understanding correct that if you enable 7.1, Mumble outputs correctly to your headset. But if you disable it, it only outputs to one driver?

If so, could you set your headset up for non-7.1 mode, and start Mumble (while not in XP compatibility mode). Then close it again. This creates a log of what happened during audio initialization in %APPDATA%\Mumble\Console.txt that we can use to diagnose the issue.

It could go a number of ways -- it all depends on whether changing the switch actually changes what the audio device reports to the OS in terms of number of available channels, etc.

Also, FYI: Enabling XP compatibility mode forces Mumble to use DirectSound instead of WASAPI.