I’m really curious now.
@pirx and @DiamondNova , what are your software and hardware components? Windows Sound settings like in the old Control Panel Sound applet?
There are also very good free options like HeSuVi.
On-board sound? USB?
Does your headset come with a virtual surround (HRTF, 5.1/7.1) component? Is properly configured? Is it even installed? Logitech for instance now licenses from Sony’s DTS and some models include licenses to use DTS Sound Unbound. Even many motherboards include licenses, some “lesser” versions of DTS.
Are you using “newer” Win Spatial Sound instead? On? Which?
Windows Sonic is built-in, DTS has a 2 week trial (Dolby too, but I found DTS better).
And lastly what’s the in-game speaker config, no “7.1” now, but 5.1 is there.
I’d wager a lot of ppl out there have plain old 2.0 stereo across the board even when they don’t need to or out of date SW/FW.