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[1656] Bugged sound

Discussion in 'Archive' started by Adikso, Nov 11, 2015.

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  1. Adikso

    Adikso Base Burner
    1. [AG#] - Ancient Gear

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    Category: KAG Client
    Operating system: Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit)
    Build number: 1656, but it exists for very long time
    Description: Sound is just bugged. I hear sounds from a very long distance. Sounds are also played mostly from only one and wrong audio channel. Bug also existed on my previous Ubuntu installation. It makes KAG unplayable. I have to switch to Windows everytime.
    Steps to reproduce: Just play
    Screenshots/Videos:
    Sound can be out of sync because i recorded it separately. PLEASE WATCH WHOLE VIDEO.

    And also some additional sound samples:
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26276441/show/kag-probka1.ogg
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26276441/show/kag-probka2.ogg
     
    Last edited: Nov 11, 2015
    Adikso, Nov 11, 2015
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  2. Verrazano

    Verrazano Flat Chested Haggy Old Souless Witchy Witch Witch THD Team Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
    1. Practitioners of War Extreme Revolution - POWER

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    I have a lot of similar issues with audio, when my sound does play it the audio channels are often messed up. Another experience I've had is that collapses cause lots of odd sound artifacts at extremely high volume. However kag doesn't play well with my current audio drivers so unless I unplug my headphones I don't get sound at all.

    When I have more free time over winter break, I'll probably be looking into fixing/playing around with the audio portion of the engine, although I don't know how much I can really accomplish. In the mean time do you mind sharing what audio drivers you are using?
     
    Verrazano, Nov 13, 2015
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  3. Asu

    Asu THD Team THD Team Forum Moderator

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    A recent build added a workaround that reverses channels.

    That especially, irrklang sound support under linux sounds (pun not intended) terrible.

    I assume pulseaudio is what most linux users uses. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch and a lot more are using PA by default.
     
    Asu, Nov 13, 2015
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  4. Verrazano

    Verrazano Flat Chested Haggy Old Souless Witchy Witch Witch THD Team Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
    1. Practitioners of War Extreme Revolution - POWER

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    Reversing the channels doesn't seem to work correctly in my experience, there is something else wrong.
    And yes from what I've read the irrklang support for linux and codebase in general has a lot of issues.
    I use pulse audio, but it wasn't the default for my distro (ubuntu) when I switched.
     
    Verrazano, Nov 13, 2015
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  5. Adikso

    Adikso Base Burner
    1. [AG#] - Ancient Gear

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    I'm using Ubuntu with default ALSA + Pulseaudio.
     
    Adikso, Nov 15, 2015
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  6. zerd

    zerd Arsonist
    1. SIEGE Clan - SIEGE

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    Just a quick note:
    I am often missing sounds in game, most often on heavily populated servers.
    I mostly notice this when my charge sounds (playing as archer) does not play. Swapping classes back and forth eventually fixes the issue for me, but is rarely worth the effort given how many attempts it might take.

    I do not find the charge animation on crosshair useful since I am actively moving that around, so using sounds to help timing certain shots is what I find optimal, and not being able to do that in the heat of battle can be quite infuriating

    Let me know if you think hardware stats might help you find the cause. I have been asking around on servers though, and it seems to be a problem most attentive players have encountered.
     
    zerd, Nov 20, 2015
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  7. Adikso

    Adikso Base Burner
    1. [AG#] - Ancient Gear

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    Few months ahead and I am back to play KAG again. (I made a break because of that bug).
    Bug still occurs ;c

    But it's working correctly with Windows version on Wine...
     
    Last edited: Jul 27, 2016
    Adikso, Jul 27, 2016
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  8. Adikso

    Adikso Base Burner
    1. [AG#] - Ancient Gear

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    Problem still occurs. Please fix :C
     
    Adikso, Aug 4, 2017
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  9. Fuzzle

    Fuzzle Grand Grumbler

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    It's most likely an issue w/ IrrKlang. There's been an update w/ a lot of fixes and performance optimizations for Linux. @Geti
     
    Fuzzle, Aug 5, 2017
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  10. Asu

    Asu THD Team THD Team Forum Moderator

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    Archived a duplicate bug report (keeping this one as it is more complete)
    Adding the Mac tag as this seems to affect it as well.
    --- Double Post Merged, Apr 14, 2018, Original Post Date: Aug 15, 2017 ---
    Fixed next build.
    It seemed to be due to listener coordinate weirdness, which probably only affected Mac and Linux because IrrKlang is in charge of positional audio here, instead of letting DirectSound do it on Windows.
     
    Asu, Apr 14, 2018
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