arronleeds Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 i bought the h1500 thinking they would be decent since theyre 7.1, i know its 7.1 usb but still, it should be pretty good. anyway the problem i have is i mainly got them for footsteps, yes thats nerdy lol. but tbh they have no improvement over 2.0 audio and ive even tried using the fps setting in the corsair control panel. they do sound good when talking to people, it sounds like theyre next to me but games, hmmm not really too good, anyone got any good presets going? also the mic is very very poor, i have to use another mic sat on my desk to talk, because if i use this one they say they can barely hear me and thats with the mic on full. they also say i sound very muffled and if i even knock the volume button i get a faint hiss on the mic, so i have to not touch it and keep it muted. any help? im probably gonna get some astro a40s next because ive never heard a bad review about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 The virtual surround is subjective. Did you enable the Dolby drivers by pressing the power button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightowl Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 What game(s) are you playing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronleeds Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 yeah i enabled 7.1 and i also tried 5.1, ive tried games like counter strike, bf4, dayz and insurgency. i cant hear footsteps any better on any of those games and thats even with surround enabled in the game settings too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Make sure the Corsair drivers are installed correctly in Windows. You can do this by going to Device Manager, opening the device's properties and look for the driver it is using under the drivers tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightowl Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Of the games you listed, I can only speak for BF4. Battlefield 2142 had very easy-to-hear footsteps. I used a Creative SoundBlaster sound card and analogue headphones in those days, and footsteps of approaching enemies were very easy to hear. But things changed with Bad Company 2, and footsteps of approaching enemies don't really exist any more, at least in my experience with the same and different hardware as used with 2142. Occasionally I hear footsteps of friendlies, but never enemies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronleeds Posted December 25, 2014 Author Share Posted December 25, 2014 Problem is nightowl I can hear enemy footsteps but there's no difference in them with stereo and surround, it's like there's a threshold from where you can hear them to where they stop, like call of duty where there's only a certain distance you car hear them until they vanish and you can rarely hear them when team mates are close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic256 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 i bought the h1500 thinking they would be decent since theyre 7.1, i know its 7.1 usb but still, it should be pretty good. anyway the problem i have is i mainly got them for footsteps, yes thats nerdy lol. but tbh they have no improvement over 2.0 audio and ive even tried using the fps setting in the corsair control panel. they do sound good when talking to people, it sounds like theyre next to me but games, hmmm not really too good, anyone got any good presets going? also the mic is very very poor, i have to use another mic sat on my desk to talk, because if i use this one they say they can barely hear me and thats with the mic on full. they also say i sound very muffled and if i even knock the volume button i get a faint hiss on the mic, so i have to not touch it and keep it muted. any help? im probably gonna get some astro a40s next because ive never heard a bad review about them. No, it's not just you, volume levels are difficult to adjust (All levels are very loud) and microphone is horrible and low and if third party software is used to boost the mic (Not part of the driver?? wtf...), horrible humming and groundloop feedback will annoy anyone youre trying to communicate with... I've tried this headset on 3 different win 8.1 computers, 2 desktops and a laptop with same result, generic and Corsair (new and old) drivers... This headset just sucks and is probably my worst buying decission for quite a while being close to useless for whatever they where intended... I've had other brands of headsets cost 1/3 the price of this 1500 that I'd MUCH rather own... There's other people on forum with these issues but no official response and some suggesting trying to fix it with freeware equalizer software ... That's just not good enough ... Has anyone actually got this headset to work perfectly on a windows 8.1 pc? Especially the microphone issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Neville Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 yeah i enabled 7.1 and i also tried 5.1, ive tried games like counter strike, bf4, dayz and insurgency. i cant hear footsteps any better on any of those games and thats even with surround enabled in the game settings too. How dare you! BF4 is NOT a game. It's an interactive docu-drama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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