Audio

[jnTracks]

Originally posted in the audio and UI forum, realized it fits better here.


Hey everybody. I've been playing for a few months, casually. When I play on my strong, DX11 capable gaming computer, from time to time I get a weird audio glitch that seems to be related to water.
It sounds like a hit sound of some kind, repeating very fast. The effect ends up sounding like a loud rattling sound. Seems to be when a mob falls down dead in shallow water. that only happens sometimes, near when I log on. I also hear a similar glitch when I go near large waterfalls. In that case it lasts longer (several seconds) and seems to fade in and fade out. Like a guitar delay pedal that starts to self oscillate --if there are any guitar players out there.
The fountain in the south west part of the marketplace does it. And some other quests that have waterfalls seem to cause it pretty reliably.

This computer has 2 GTX460's in SLI and sound is a soundblaster audigy 4 running 5.1. DX 11 is enabled, and all settings in game are maxed. Vsyc on and triple buffered.
Eax is off.

does anyone have any ideas for what this might be?

It doesn't happen on either of the macbooks we play on, and it doesn't happen on the other windows computer I have, (that one is DX10 only)

Thanks!

[Seikojin]

Change what is rendering the audio in the audio settings, just to test. There are apparently a lot of compatibility issues between ddo and creative labs sound cards.

[jnTracks]

mmm, re-enabled the motherboard built-in audio card and used it last night. Didn't hear any glitches.

Kind of too bad I can't use my good audio card with this game. I suppose this is going on the list of known issues that don't seem very important, eh?

[Impaqt]

mmm, re-enabled the motherboard built-in audio card and used it last night. Didn't hear any glitches.

Kind of too bad I can't use my good audio card with this game. I suppose this is going on the list of known issues that don't seem very important, eh?

Unfortunately, Audigy has never been known for their stellar drivers. Have you checked to see if their are newer drivers out for it?

There are a few third party drivers out there that do a better job nowadays from what I hear. I stopped using soundblaster cards long ago.

[Seikojin]

Bummer that is the case. however you can try this with the Audigy:
Right click the speaker icon, choose playback devices, double click on your Audigy output device, click on the advanced tab, and you should have some sample rate playback option. If you click on it, you should get an expanded list of playback sample rates. Choose something super high or super low, click apply, and then retry in ddo.

[jnTracks]

hmmm.. this is interesting stuff.

I am a tinkerer! hahaha.