ZDaemon

Caleb13 · Posting Spree! Joined: 05 Feb 2014

When 3D sound is enabled in sound menu, loud cracking noises randomly appear when many sounds are played at once. Most often it happens in MP when several players fire chainguns or plasmaguns at once. It is most noticeable when the weapons are fired in the distance. Here is sample I recorded in MP when 3 or 4 players fired plasmaguns:

http://sharesend.com/schch8e6

I tried it on 3 different PCs (all W7 64-bit) with different sound cards (and 5.1 speakers), but the cracking is always there. This didn't happen in previous Zdaemon versions. I tried juggling with buffer sizes, number of simultaneously played sounds and other sound settings, but the cracking was always there. The only way to eliminate it was to disable 3D sound, which is obviously undesirable.

Krawa · There is a limit Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Location: #SDA

Anyone uses 3D sound?
Could anyone deny or confirm it?

Evolution · Wicked Sick! Joined: 06 Sep 2005

GreenchiL · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:32 am Post subject:

Yes, this does happen: https://youtu.be/MKD6T6NVFZA?t=1922

AF-Domains.net · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:49 pm Post subject:

Although this isn't directly related to the loud crack that was being reported, the following fix has been made in the latest 1.10.22 build (2022-12-19):

cockad · Posting Spree! Joined: 12 Mar 2019

I can still experience that 3D sound is theoretically ON in the settings, but sometimes the sounds have the same volume as if it weren't turned on.

This usually happens while I am listening to something else and the zdaemon.exe is started at the same time.

OS is Win 8.1 64 bit, if it matters anyhow.