It forces the game audio into stereo mode. That's all. You probably already have your X360 set to stereo, so it wouldn't make any difference at all. But if you had it set up to a 5.1 or 7.1 surround, turning this option on would guarantee that you don't miss any sounds while using headphones. Casyle (Topic Creator) 13 years ago #7. Start the game first. Once you are inside the game goto your windows task bar and your sound icon in the bottom right corner and right click. Then left click open volume mixer. You will get a bunch of volume settings. Look for Rdr2 icon, NOT the rockstar icon, make sure it's RDR2 icon, and move the volume to max. Red Dead Redemption 2. There is a setting under audio for changing the speaker config of the surround sound. You can set the rear speakers to "far" and it will up the volume on them. But, imho, the overall surround sound in this game is not well balanced. Most (but not all) of the music volume is way too low on surround sound. I've tried what has been suggested elsewhere, deleting/removing the "Settings" folder contents from the Rockstar Games/Red Dead Redemption 2 folder in my documents before reloading the game, but that did not work. The ultimate screen reference Tool for game interface designers. Explore over 1000 games and 42,000 individual images, and filter by screen type, material, layout, texture, shapes, patterns, genre and more! My current set up is an HDMI to the TV////Arc HDMI from soundbar receiver to TV. On my xbox, I have made the audio settings to output DTS Digital Surround and it seems to be working on all my devices. Now my favorite game to play is RDR 2. The audio settings are limited. .

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