Overview
Well, i decided to create this guide to help anyone who having problem with SSC. Some problems i encounter, i has able to resolve. So i want share a little of what i know, i have more than 6,000 hours with SSC, and it’s great.
Windows
Installation: (Windows)
1 – You are installing in administrator account?
And Install the SSC in your system Driver (C:). (SSC don’t take much space anyway)(If you have multiple steam library in others HD’s or SSD’s, check if is installing in the system drive)
2 – If you having problem with installation in a notebook, disable your sound card before install. (Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Press the right button of mouse in your sound card and disable), a test this method in some notebooks and it install nice. (I don’t know why the cause it, the problem show that SSC cannot disable the sound and don’t install or parcial install and don’t work, after i do the disabling process, it install fast and zero problems)
3 – After installation, re-enable your sound card, and restart you pc. (Don’t test your sound before doing this).
4 – Turn SSC the default device after restarting.
5 – SSC don’t support ASIO (ASIO4ALL), only SSC Pro edition. ( Spatial Sound Card Pro[newaudiotechnology.com] )
6 – Don’t disable the Private (SSC) in the Recording, in the Sound, the SSC stop working if you do.
7 – Use the 48000khz 24-bits, above 48khz WILL eat your cpu a lot, if you don’t have a hardware dedicate sound card or if your CPU is not strong enough, the 48khz 24-bits will suit you very well.
8 – If you use others programs like discord or to work like Adobe Premiere, make sure that the SCC output is your default device, and make your microphone or other device you use in the input your default device, but don’t disable the PRIVATE (SSC) in the recording, only change the default device to one you use. ( I use discord, premiere, audition and others and don’t have any problem.
9 – In the more recent version of windows, i have seeing a lot of people with the problem of “no sound coming out”, this happen to me too, and i discovery the problem. A lot of people disable the microphone in privacy settings of Windows 10, but for SSC to work you NEED to keep the Microphone enabled (Settings – Privacy – Microphone), this is crucial for the SSC to work.
10 – Another thing i discovery, since the developers is working in a update, and is quite a long time since the last update here in steam, so a workaround, you can install the more update version from this site ( Spatial Sound Card[spatialsoundcard.com] ), than after that, you disable this free version to launch when the Windows start and exit, after that you install the version from steam (DON’T install the driver) only the SSC itself, this will work in the more recent version of Windows 10.
11 – If the SSC keep crashing/won’t open, uninstall the SSC again, then go to
C:UsersUserAppDataRoamingSpatial Sound Card
or
%APPDATA%Spatial Sound Card
and delete the file ‘Spatial Sound Card.settings’. Then reinstall the SSC.
MacOs
Installation: (MacOS)
This is for MacOs 10.13, i don’t know if work on 10.14+, they will launch a update in the future.
Kernel Access [developer.apple.com]
Installation Guide[drive.google.com]