[XBox Series X] Dolby Atmos stopped working recently

  • Maniac2k
    Sailor

    Hi there,

    As far I know, Sea of Thieves supports Dolby Atmos on XBox and until recently, that has been quite impressive.

    However, I noticed that the game stopped outputting a Dolby Atmos signal in the last couple of days. Instead, there is a simple PCM stream coming from the game. I am not entirely sure, but I believe that this issue has been introduced by one of the recent updates. Especially, since I did not change anything on my XBox's settings and other games are perfectly able to play Dolby Atmos. I double-checked the settings and my Dolby Access app, all fine. The game itself does not have an option to enable spatial audio on XBox, right?

    Did anyone else observe this?

    I already submitted a support request at Rare, but I am curious if anyone else has run into this issue.

    Cheers,

    Maniac

    Game version: 2.142.482.0

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  • rockNrolf
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    Same thing with PS5. Height channels stopped working(no sounds) after the last 'QoL' update. I have 5.1.4 speaker setup.

    Other games (forza horizon 5, helldivers 2, cod, etc..) and movies work fine.

  • Maniac2k
    Sailor

    I did some research. Obviously the game was compiled with sound options set to simple PCM output. Best case, someone forgot to check the Dolby Atmos checkbox in the IDE.

    But it’s also possible that Rare wants to kick Atmos support silently without making a fuss about it. Licensing Atmos is prohibitively expensive. And although it’s astonishing impressive, only a small fraction of gamers take advantage of it. Not many have the space and funds to build an Atmos setup. It’s possible that Rare does not want to license such an expensive feature when only a few gamers are actually using it.

    I sincerely hope that this is not the case. SoT support ensured me that they did not shut down Atmos on purpose, so I sincerely hope that they will enable it in the near future and all my aforementioned thoughts will prove wrong. Dolby Atmos in SoT is the best I have experienced in a game so far…

  • Maniac2k
    Sailor

    @rocknrolf

    Dolby Atmos has been re-enabled on XBox Series X with the latest update.

    You may want to check your height speakers on your PS5 setup, if they are working again with the latest update of SoT on PS5.

    @Rare: Thanks for bringing back Dolby Atmos. The game is once again impressively immersive!

  • Maniac2k
    Sailor

    And here we go again :-( The mid-August update for season 17 has disabled Dolby Atmos again on Xbox.

    Worse, there is only stereo available. Although all of the surround channels are active and supplied with PCM audio, only left and right front channels actually produce sound, the rest is completely silent.

    Come on, Rare, can't be too difficult to check the checkbox for spatial audio when compiling the game, can it?

  • TheEmperorWayne
    Seafarer
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    @maniac2k I thought I was going insane, but yeah this is egregious.

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