So apparently windows configures my stereo headphones as 5.1 headphones by default (which it never did before) thus causing weird bugs in games like witcher 3 where dialogs are super silent and everything else is super noisy. Thank you microsoft, for continuously making things worse.

At least it can be fixed (i hope), not like pulseaudio, which used to crash itself to hell everytime I muted/deafened myself on Discord, because why not.

I don't remember which setting it was, but there's some "3d improvement" which makes it sound like you're in a box and the sound is on the outside of that box. Muffled.

Almost made me think my headphones are broken.

FUCK

Reinstall the driver?

@irene well I already said what my problem was in the rant and it's obvious (maybe) that I found in the settings that windows set it to 5.1 and I just set it back to stereo. I was just confused that windows uses 5.1 by default now as I just freshly installed windows. It never did that before.

@beggarboy yeah as I said jn my rant windows set the headphones to 5.1 by default. It never did that before so I was confused. Setting it back to stereo (which should be the default for fucking aux headphones) fixed everything.

@devTea well it were the default windows drivers. Setting it from 5.1 back to stereo fixed it. I was just wondering why windows would use 5.1 for headphones by default

@b3b3 yeah windows default driver is not really reliable, you have to install the driver from the manufacture site