sound problems

I tried recent update 1.3 and adelaide with 15 mini coopers.
At start when all cars get off the line the sound cuts out.
It sounds like all the engine noise together get too loud and overpower.. .. difficult to describe but it sounds terrible. like too many sound channels interfere one another ... like white noise
when the field is stretched out sound is ok again like normal
anyone noticed this too ?

 

no slowdowns just hardcore sound crackle
system specs are in my sig

 

when i am in the pack sound is terrible
i tried it with 10 AI cars , no sound problem !

sorry just a quick video, i have to look after the kids

but you can hear the crackling sound

no outputfilter or whatever
ac rre rf2 all work flawlessly

 

What soundcard do you have? If you use some kind of "pro" soundcard just turn the buffer up in asio driver as that buffer affects also windows audio and can cause buffer problems. also deactivate reberb ingame, this can stress your soundcard.


(also automobilista audio work is a total mess).

 

it is the onboardsound of my board, realtek
only thing i can tell you it happens somwhere between 10 and 20 ai cars
with 10 cars no problem no matter where i position my own car
with 20 .. as you can see , i tried to position myself midfield it crackls hardcore ...

at the end of the video is the replay
there the sound goes bad too
good example to investigate @ 02:00
thanks for looking into this !

let my know if i can test or help

 

Audio Buffer in a ASIO card could be the problem. I have test this with some "pro" cards as Focusrite and RME. Changing Buffer would also affect windows audio engine at least in windows 10.

Audio is done in a bad way, not tecnichal at all, as i have posted here and in steam forum.

Audio samples have tons of bad offset, this causes clicks ad pops when the audio engine loops and mixes samples, this is a fact i know what I am talking, and I did some rework in some and resolves the problem. This problem is present in the game regardless the computer/soundcard, pops are in some cars more noticiable than others, but it's only a offset problem. Another problem is that samples are in various frecuencies as 44khz and 96 Khz, they are even not multipliers, this causes DAC/software to convert sample rate causing high stress to cpu and soundcard. This can be easily fixed with a batch convert to all into 48khz, or 44Khz. It's preferred in 48Khz, but every sample at the same samplerate please so DAC converter would not stress. This can cause the bug we see here as the soft tryes to resample 44 and 96 mixed samples into 48 (windows default). If you have all in 48 then resample it's not done, cpu saving, and way less problems.


In the video of this post you can hear pops caused by bad offset exactly at:
0:59 when reducing gear to 3 and then again to 2. it's like a single click when sample changes. This happens to all, not related to this exact bug, you can see this in other youtube videos, look for the mini it has bad offset.

 

hum... @Domagoj Lovric , worth a try?
(I am still chasing the spotter stutter, maybe is related to audio quality)
Are all the game sounds on folders?
I mean, no need to look on compressed files or similar?
@Xzess which software can be used to perform a batch convert of all sound files into 48khz?

 

I used Reaper it's a low priced DAW, and free to try. Good enought to do this task. I did in most of samples of automobilista, but they need to be redone almost entirely cause clicks also occurr in middle sample, as the sound worker of this game also didn't remove offset between samples when merging them in loops.
@DaVeX To test if sound is a problem to you, just rename "sounds" folder in gamedata to something different, as this, no sample will be loaded and you will know if causes some sttuter.
@DaVeX @Domagoj Lovric @testdriver69 I can reproduce the bug, it's caused by the reverb, It causes audio buffer problems, developers should increase audio buffer if they can.
I'll uploading standart used samples to test this in your case.

Turn off reverb, problem solved.

 

Good work on finding and squashing a distortion bug. The improvements and enhancements promise to be exciting. I shall keep an ear cocked for this.

 

I will temper my expectations.

 

@Domagoj Lovric Mmm i think I didn't explain ok. For the Khz problem, maybe it doesn't make any diference just is a mess as it is, but it's a way to smoohing things, do it right and debug future problems. I thought that it was old data or sound engineer change, good to know I was right.

And for de cero offset, yes cero offset it's needed to avoid clicks, I am 100% sure this is causing clicks and pops in Automobilista. I did some rework in some cars and clicks where gone. Also to say yes to make loop samples you have to search for cero offset if not it's bad done, you cannot loop in any place as clickpops occur. Also not only engine samples are bad offset some road and ambient too as curbs..I will rework camaro samples just to clarify. I'll put a sample here, before\after.

For the random loop start of the engine, I don't know how it works but if offset it's good sound it's smooth. You can see the metalmoro sound I did in little time, with a youtube video, see my posts.

 

Thank you to @Xzess and @Domagoj Lovric for clearing up this audio bug.