RejZoRIt's so depressing to look at the "Sound" entry in 2018... Everything is evolving and we've gone a decade backwards with sound on Windows Vista release and we're still stuck there now. :/

15th WarlockSince all high end sound encoding has gone the HDMI route, PC speakers manufacturers are still way behind the curve, most current onboard or discrete sound cards only support analog out, or toslink out, giving you Dolby digital encoding at best, that's two generations old, compared to what's state of the art in audio encoding, and not even comparable to Dolby TruAudio or DTS-HD.

Things are different if you use a receiver though, and connect it to your PC using HDMI, Win10 has full support for Dolby ATMOS.

EasoDon't tell me they have locked the framerate at 30. Because that is way too low number to be "recommended".

RejZoRAaaaaand basically everyone entirely missed the point of advanced game audio systems... Hint, they have nothing to do with bitrate, frequencies, SNR, decibels, DTS, Dolby, HDMI or any other high flying words and everything to do with accurate 3D audio positioning and simulation of how audio behaves in certain environments (reverberations and echoes mostly).

RejZoRThe problem is not on the output side but on the audio processing side. We had literal HW accelerated 3D positioning sound that used actual sound tracing with "audio shaders" for environmental audio and they scraped all of it for a software audio which in theory and on paper is just as capable, but in reality, 3D positioning is garbage in most cases and it all just sounds so bland and uninspiring it's driving me nuts. Sometimes I'd actually prefer to have exaggerated EAX 2.0 environmental effects that always did such amazing dramatic effect and which is just gone now. Anyone who played original Half-Life with EAX enabled will understand what I mean when you hit something metal with a crowbar in a large hall or listening to explosions and footsteps on huge open canyon spaces that echoed majestically. It just sounded epic. Now it all sounds like you're walking on a carpet in a living room. It's just all the same, metal, concrete, carpet, eh. Everyone these days is just 24bit this, kilohertz that, Dolby this, DTS that and for games, basically none of that matters. It's 3D positioning and environmental audio that matters and nothing else. And we have none of it, at least not one that would actually sound good anyways.

danbert2000I would be perfectly happy using DTS for my PC surround sound setup, but Nvidia doesn't encode surround sound for HDMI output, it's PCM or bust.

danbert2000But echo/reverberation doesn't make sense to do on a sound card. If it's on the sound card, it's going to be faked or it's going to require the sound card to have GPU-level processing. They do all that stuff on the GPU now, for a good reason. And Dolby Atmos can already be sent over HDMI, so again, no point in sticking a dumb sound card in the middle of the process if you're just sending audio over HDMI. Positional audio is important, I agree. But most gamers are going to be doing that with headphones for stuff like VR and gaming at a desk. I doubt anyone would set up 9+ speakers around their desk for Atmos...

So what am I missing, RejZoR?

Harry LloydWhy would 4K need a beefier CPU? The CPU has no impact on the resolution, only the framerate.