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| Why does this game's audio suck so much? |
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| Sefou:
--- Quote from: KoopaScooper on August 07, 2011, 11:38:57 PM ---And the reason the audio quality is no higher than 22050Hz --- End quote --- It actually is higher than 22050Hz in some cases. I was complaining about default sound effects. A few of the sounds I played in foobar2000 reported 44100Hz. --- Quote from: KoopaScooper on August 07, 2011, 11:38:57 PM ---is for speedy downloading. Would you rather download a 0.8MB file containing 2 seconds of audio, or a 0.1MB file containing 2 seconds of audio? --- End quote --- You mean KB. No audio format encodes with such a ridiculously high data footprint; if audio really took up all that space, a three minute song in FLAC would take up gigabytes of space. Uncompressed waveform audio has the biggest footprint at about 10 MiB per minute. |
| Sirherg1:
--- Quote from: KoopaScooper on August 07, 2011, 11:38:57 PM ---This truthfully does nothing for the sound quality. --- End quote --- I did not mean that it would increase the sound quality, rather increase the atmosphere of the game by widening ones perspective of the 3D sound featured in the torque engine. |
| Sefou:
--- Quote from: Sirherg1 on August 07, 2011, 11:45:05 PM ---I did not mean that it would increase the sound quality, rather increase the atmosphere of the game by widening ones perspective of the 3D sound featured in the torque engine. --- End quote --- Through headphones it's MUCH easier to hear how absolutely terrible the game's audio quality is. When I switched from speakers to headphones years ago I was disappointed to hear tons of white noise in all of the game's audio. Also @Kalphiter http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=162442.msg4017625#msg4017625 |
| Niven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62QAI9lYINE |
| Kalphiter:
--- Quote from: Sefou on August 07, 2011, 11:38:52 PM ---3D sound ≠ stereo sound sources. Obviously I meant that the game can't process stereo sound files. Why do you think the console yells at you if you try using stereo music? --- End quote --- That's only for in-game sounds because the engine takes care of 3D sounds for you. I literally just played a WAV file with no right channel perfectly in Blockland. |
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