audio bug RageMP & GTA 5 Enhanced broken audio

[W0lfseye]

Hello everyone,

I’m having a very weird audio issue in GTA V Enhanced when playing via RAGE MP v1.1 .

Problem

• Audio is strongly left-heavy (most footsteps, vehicle sounds, ambience are much louder on the left ear).

• Positional audio is wrong / inverted: sounds that should be behind me sometimes play as if they are in front (and vice versa). Some sources feel mirrored or incorrectly placed.

• This affects everything, including:

  • RAGE MP voice chat

  • footsteps

  • cars / engine sounds

  • ambient sounds / effects

• Some sounds feel mono-ish, others are stereo but positioned incorrectly.

Important comparison

• In GTA V Enhanced Story Mode, stereo and positioning are correct.

• In GTA V Legacy (RAGE MP Legacy / GTA Legacy), audio works perfectly on the same PC.

System / setup

• Windows 11

• Playing on GTA5RP server with the latest RAGE MP 1.1

• I use an audio interface with normal stereo headphones (no surround headset).

• Only one playback device and one recording device are enabled in Windows, so they are automatically the Default device and Default communication device.

• Playback + Recording are both set to 48 kHz / 24-bit (so there should be no sample-rate mismatch).

What I already tried (no change)

• Reinstalled RAGE MP completely

• Tested different headphones (AUX, Bluetooth)

• Tested headphones via motherboard audio instead of the audio interface (no change)

• Set Playback + Recording devices to 48 kHz / 24-bit and ensured no 44.1/48 mismatch

• Disabled Windows audio enhancements / spatial features (and also tried enabling Windows Sonic as a test — it can slightly “mask” the issue but does not truly fix positional audio)

• Verified that the active devices are set as default + communication devices

• Set "Audio3d" in settings.xml to true/false

 

Is this a known issue with RAGE MP + GTA V Enhanced on Windows 11?
Are there any client settings, config files, or known workarounds (especially for the listener orientation / positional audio) that I can try?

If needed, I can provide:

• short video/audio clip demonstrating the inverted front/back positioning

• dxdiag

• RAGE MP logs

Thanks a lot!

[Skelmer]

Exactly the same problem. Checked on two different projects.

[Lucyyyyyyyy]

Même problème...

[artlck]

Same issue