gt5 with turtle beach px5 problem

[Caz]

I bought a pair of px5 headphones a while back and love them for gaming. I hadnt played gt5 in a long time as my rig had been packed away. A few weeks ago I decided to give the c7 a go so i set it all back up again.
Load up gt5 and install all updates ( ouch ). Sit down to play and turn on the headphones as i always do when using them. No sound at all coming through them.
They are ran through the optical port on ps3 and the reciever is powered by usb. First obvious thing was to switch the batteries, no problem, I have 2 sets of rechargeables. Still nothing.
Maybe my ps3 is set for hdmi audio, tho it shouldnt be. So i back out of game after fiddling with the in game audio options and check my output settings, and also turn the keytones on so I dont have to load the game to test the headphones.
Sweet deal.
Nope.
Load up gt5 and bam. Silence...
Ok, maybe gt is reading the usb as a controller. Turn ps3 off and tried plugging the headphone reciever through a seperate powered hub. Reboot ps3 and power on headphones. Getting keytones in the xmb but still nothing when in gt5.

TV speakers suck and I took the surround speakers off my seat.

I use these headphones just about everyday for other games with no issue.

Im at a loss.

 

[LVracerGT]

Have you tried configuring the audio through the GT5 options?

Not sure if it makes a difference or not but it's worth a try

 

[bs13]

Try multi-AV out. This allow me to output sound via HDMI to my TV and via optical to my receiver.

In the XMB go to settings - sound settings - audio multi-output and set the option to on.

 

[Caz]

I have tried multi out and all settings in gt5.

It does it with my slim and fatty ps3s but only on gt. Games, music, web and video all work flawlessly. Except gt.

 

[ElementRacer]

Caz. I may have a solution.

Go buy a new HDMI cable. should be 15 dollars.

I had a similar problem.

On my tv, everything worked fine.

When I went to my friends house, we plugged in his dads little 40" telly.

Now I booted up my ps3 with the HDMI, and looked all good. Keytones in XMB and all.

Slotted GT5 in and went straight online, realising i couldn't hear squat. But my next to my username the little talking icon showed, showing that the mic was working.

Took the earpiece out, and realised I had no GT5 sound.

After much messing about I decided to swap my HDMI cable with my mates.

BOOM, I have sound, so does he.

for some reason, my cable doesn't like that tellevision for sound on GT5, as my Rockband had sound on the same TV.

P.S. End note: sometimes when i boot up FIFA13, I have no sound, so I pull out the cable from the tv and re-insert it. Then I have sound.

Go buy a HDMI cable. That is my educated guess and possible solution

👍

 

[gt_5p1d3r]

I recently purchased a set of PX5's and suffered the same problem.
The solution- Goto xmb- sound settings- audio output settings, select optical/digital- then uncheck DTS 5.1 ch. Leaving only Doby Digital 5.1
Linear pcm 2 ch 44.1 khz and 48 khz turned on. The audio multi output can be set to on or off. Not sure what the linear channel's have to do with it but this work's for me. Surround sound racing nothing better.

 

[Griffith500]

I recently purchased a set of PX5's and suffered the same problem.
The solution- Goto xmb- sound settings- audio output settings, select optical/digital- then uncheck DTS 5.1 ch. Leaving only Doby Digital 5.1
Linear pcm 2 ch 44.1 khz and 48 khz turned on. The audio multi output can be set to on or off. Not sure what the linear channel's have to do with it but this work's for me. Surround sound racing nothing better.

This was going to be my first guess, given it's on the optical out. I think GT5 defaults to DTS if both DD and DTS are available, and if the receiver doesn't do DTS, you'll get silence (it'll recognise it's a non-PCM stereo stream, and rather than output digital noise into your ears at full volume, I think silence is the better option...) Let us know if it works. 👍

For info, the "linear PCM" is just ordinary, full-fat digital-representation-of-an-analogue-waveform sound (i.e. like a "wave" file), whilst DTS and DD are obviously compressed formats to fit 5 channels into 2, which means these signals bear no direct resemblance to the original waveform (see here for a visual comparison).

 

[gt_5p1d3r]

This was going to be my first guess, given it's on the optical out. I think GT5 defaults to DTS if both DD and DTS are available, and if the receiver doesn't do DTS, you'll get silence (it'll recognise it's a non-PCM stereo stream, and rather than output digital noise into your ears at full volume, I think silence is the better option...) Let us know if it works. 👍

For info, the "linear PCM" is just ordinary, full-fat digital-representation-of-an-analogue-waveform sound (i.e. like a "wave" file), whilst DTS and DD are obviously compressed formats to fit 5 channels into 2, which means these signals bear no direct resemblance to the original waveform (see here for a visual comparison).

Thanks Griffith500, For the linear info.

 

[Caz]

Will try later today. Thanjs in advance.

 

[stevefoz]

I recently purchased a set of PX5's and suffered the same problem.
The solution- Goto xmb- sound settings- audio output settings, select optical/digital- then uncheck DTS 5.1 ch. Leaving only Doby Digital 5.1
Linear pcm 2 ch 44.1 khz and 48 khz turned on. The audio multi output can be set to on or off. Not sure what the linear channel's have to do with it but this work's for me. Surround sound racing nothing better.

I have the PX5's too, as gt_5p1d3r posted uncheck the DTS the px5's don't support it.

 

[Caz]

Thanks guys. Worked a treat