Sound going out related to concussion, constantly.

[alexande]

Under heavy fire every loud explosion caused my sound to dampen like my ears were popping, This caused uncomfortable unplayable sound with ears ringing effect.

Is this a feature? Its very uncomfortable.

Im running NVDIA high definition sound out of my gtx 460.

[AHWULF]

Explosions always damped the sound and caused ringing until we hit the "concussion bug" in 1.31 so in 1.32 it was turned off. Now that the bug is fixed concussive effects are back the way it is supposed to be.

[alexande]

this is totally different then it used to be and is actually physically uncomfortable. Its like having my ears popping over and over again. Realistic yeah. But unplayable. Sorry to hear about this feature.

[jwilly]

Are your peak signal levels clipping some stage of your audio system?

Turn your system level down progressively. At some lower level, does it stop distorting? If so, you're level-clipping.

[alexande]

working on it. I notice that the game only emulates nvidia hi def sound maybe theres something to that in my settings somewhere.

My firing sound actually lags behind pulling the trigger by a couple tenths of a second too I notice now.

[alexande]

Ok this doesn't make sense but at least for now its controlled.

I went and turned off hardware acceleration, did a restart, then turned it back on. In my audio options instead of emulated, it showed nvidia hi definition audio option again. I selected it, dialed my settings all down to performance. Did restarts, tested, (Horrible LAG and 15 FPS whenever encountering enemy inf within 50meters) reset my video to balanced. And my sound seemed to stabilize.

[calwatta]

really Ive got excellent FPS and all around am really happy with patch.

I like the effects as are. hope your not glitching that would suck.

S!

[DOC]

concussion will, depending how close you are to the concussion wave, cause you to "lose sharp levels of hearing" momentarily, instead it seems dull and muffled

as soon as the concussion wave travels past your ears, you can hear again like normal

this is actually how it was supposed to work all the time, but we removed concussion as part of the work around for the consuccion bug, which is now eliminated

[GOPHUR]

Ok this doesn't make sense but at least for now its controlled.

I went and turned off hardware acceleration, did a restart, then turned it back on. In my audio options instead of emulated, it showed nvidia hi definition audio option again. I selected it, dialed my settings all down to performance. Did restarts, tested, (Horrible LAG and 15 FPS whenever encountering enemy inf within 50meters) reset my video to balanced. And my sound seemed to stabilize.

Your "audio options show your video card settings"? Where is this? I want to try and replicate that. I can;t imagine what nVidia graphics drivers have to do with audio.

What is your system spec? I want to show this to Martini.

[alexande]

Nvidia gtx 460 offers Nvidias Hi Definition Audio straight out of the video card through an hdmi cable to the monitor.

Nvidia is currently running HD Audio driver version 1.1.13.1

Sending a dxdiag and cpu-z spec report to your email.

sent. from gmail

Edited March 15, 2011 by alexande

[Swag]

Nvidia gtx 460 offers Nvidias Hi Definition Audio straight out of the video card through an hdmi cable to the monitor.

Nvidia is currently running HD Audio driver version 1.1.13.1

Sending a dxdiag and cpu-z spec report to your email.

sent. from gmail

so it seems to me that your system, or xaudio is not discovering your internal audio chip and only sees your HDMI audio (usless unless you have a hd monitor with built in speakers connected to your HDMI cable)

Many of the systems I've encountered lately use soundmax for the internal chipset, and I can say from experience that you need to have the drivers installed for applications to see all the inputs/outputs/and mixers, it still works (you get sound) with default windows drivers, but anything that needs to detect it will not see the proper I/Os

check your device manager and determine what your internal audio chipset is and update the drivers for it

(if you are not actually using audio off the HDMI cable from the nvidia card)