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Similarly, snd_tensecondwarning_volume can be a useful reminder that the round timer is ending, so it's time to hide if you're a CT or hunt kills if you're a T and you can't plant the bomb immediately.

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With my kit (MOLOTOV by Ki:Theory) for instance, I know that if the music has started, there's not enough time for a full 10-second defuse, and a 5-second defuse needs to be started shortly after the music starts. The timing varies depending on the music kit or lack thereof, so you have to get used to the timing of whatever you're using. However, I find it useful to have snd_roundend_volume on very low, as it provides a very good estimate of whether or not you have time for a 5- or 10-second defuse. In general, the in-game music is a distraction. You can control the overall volume through whatever combination of CS:GO/Windows/driver settings you want, it doesn't really matter. The volume settings are based on your personal preference. Not all hardware can handle this low of a buffer setting though, so if you hear any crackling or pops at 0.05, increase this setting by 0.01 until the crackling/pops disappear. This is essentially the audio delay, so reducing it gives better synchronization.

Snd_mixahead is the length of the sound buffer in seconds, so 0.05 is 50ms (0.10, 100ms is the default). But in some limited testing I did before writing this, I couldn't tell any appreciable difference between the two settings, so I suspect Valve has made them the same so that one does not offer a competitive advantage. In general, because digital effects that emulate stereo mixing are a bad idea as they to alter the apparent left-right positioning of sounds, and because it took extra CPU workload, I would set it to '0'. dsp_enhance_stereo '0'Дsp_enhance_stereo is supposed to 'enhance the stereo effect' for a slight performance hit when set to '1'. Now let's move on to some of the commands that take a little less discussion.

Cs go new sounds upgrade#

If you find yourself wanting to use a modified EQ to make the game 'sound right', this is an indication that you need to upgrade your sound card and/or headphones.

Cs go new sounds driver#

Because the exact process and settings depend on your specific hardware and driver version, I can't really show useful step-by-step instructions, but I will provide my driver settings as an example, with indications where I have disabled the digital effects options and selected input/output as 2 channels (stereo). In general, you want to turn any digital enhancements and effects off, because they increase the processing time and degrade the positional and dynamic audio integrity. Now you need to check your sound driver settings. Then you'll want to go into the playback device properties to disable exclusive mode and set the default format to the same sample rate and bit depth as the CS:GO audio files like this. You'll want to configure the playback device that you use for CS:GO as a stereo, full-range setup like this.

Cs go new sounds windows#

Let's start off with how the Windows sound settings and sound driver settings should be set up for CS:GO.ДЇirst go into the sound control panel settings in Windows. I won't go into it here, but trying to set up 'surround sound' through headphones, which always have only left and right drivers, is a bad idea in my opinion. The settings discussed here are in regards to playing CS:GO's sound in a simple stereo arrangement (headphones, 2.0 or 2.1 speakers). But since this is exactly what HRTF is for, and it does it way better, you don't want to use altered settings because they will only screw up the HRTF calculations the game does itself.

This is because I was suggesting ways without HRTF to manipulate the sound to try and give advantages for discerning left-to-right position and distance over the default settings. For HRTF, you should actually use the default settings that I called non-recommended at the time.