muffled audio

[PopularPorkYT]

I can't hear any walking or specific noises and it's just getting annoying. the only noise I can hear perfectly is the noise coming from me. Is there a way to fix this?

[Rikuto01]

That's certainly not the intended audio experience. Can't say I've heard of this bug before.

[Sssulk]

Same here, i have 780 hours between blacksmith launcher and steam and the last 200 ish hours the audio has been super muffled.

[/\]

I only got the audio since recent patch. actually couldn't hear a mummy spawn and walk towards me with headphones on and he lunge killed me in the back as I was fighting stuff infront. and many other audio issues. I will say the mimics tho were super nice without hearing them lol

[Rikuto01]

fyi, muffled audio CAN happen in certain odd spots of certain dungeons, but it shouldnt be happening all of the time.

I can't really say why that would be going down. I'd start checking to see if windows has re-asserted the default audio device, if it went to 3D audio instead of stereo, and so on. With my A40's in stereo mode, i have no issue.

[PopularPorkYT]

the audio only happens when i load into a game. It works perfectly in the lobby but the only noise I can hear is the noise I make, and the rest is muffled. i had a ranger go right up behind me and use his multishot skill and died because i couldnt hear him. I tried going in and back out of the game and it looks like it fixes the problem for now.

[PopularPorkYT]

it happens all throughout the dungeon, then maybe if you go deeper it fixes it for that floor only, its random.

[MeKLiN]

WIN+R
MMSYS.CPL
double click active sound card
Enhancements tab there?
Check box for LOUDNESS EQUALIZATION

if not you have to regedit it:


Find the registry key of your sound device under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MMDevices\Audio\Render

by looking inside the Properties key. Then, in the FxProperties key, add/replace the following string values: we are in \Render... ----- \Capture are microphones
PRO TIP: remotecapture and remoterender are new and to catch criminals((old windows did not has this, and ive been watching/editing all that they add for years!!!)) but my special windows for gamers does not have any remote drivers whatsoever, ask for more info!))

Valuename ----------------------------------------- Value
{d04e05a6-594b-4fb6-a80d-01af5eed7d1d},1 {62dc1a93-ae24-464c-a43e-452f824c4250}

{d04e05a6-594b-4fb6-a80d-01af5eed7d1d},2 {637c490d-eee3-4c0a-973f-371958802da2}

{d04e05a6-594b-4fb6-a80d-01af5eed7d1d},3 {5860E1C5-F95C-4a7a-8EC8-8AEF24F379A1}


what this means is the 3 keys starting with {d04e05a6- above are going to have different values, change them to what is shown above

realtek soundcards (onboard motherboard garbage chip) will have this apo default. if you use the windows version of your discrete soundcard driver, u may have them. if u install the actual driver for say, a soundblaster x-fi , which is what i use, or audigy soundblaster, then your apo may disappear and u will have a hard time regediting that simply. now if u really have dingy sound after this, and it isnt even usable, u just have a bad chip. if i dont use my sound card and use the onboard motherboard sound port, it sounds like garbage. buy a PCI or PCI-E soundcard and use the tweak u will never get snuck up on again

[Xurenji]

Originally posted by MeKLiN:

WIN+R
MMSYS.CPL
double click active sound card
Enhancements tab there?
Check box for LOUDNESS EQUALIZATION




**This did it for me and it actually sounds a lot better than ever it has. Thanks

[/\]

ok but can we remove all sound from mimics? those things blow out eardrums tbh

[MeKLiN]

careful with that sound tweak as it makes moving gems and gold amplified which is a dim sound not meant to be loud and windows makes it the same as other sounds , think footsteps as loud as bullets , can be painful to move gems . take your headphones off when you are in the menu until they fix the equalizer on those first-pass un-mastered .wav files of gold gems and rings being moved. also diablo 1 expansion pack The Hell has the best inventory mouse system.

[MeKLiN]

mimics do not bother me on this tweak setting. its one of the louder noises so it gets volume bumped down, as the average sounds coming from the game arent that loud. think footsteps loud but gunshots not as loud anymore. i do not like the mimic noise but it doesnt hurt my ears as much as the gem and gold and ring noises which are too loud with this setting tweak well known to the rust community. its only a matter of time before the information i know will be spread to everyone here. i hope they release a gc.buffer command availability like in rust which the major cause of stuttering in unity engine first person shooter games. what it does is wait until the vram fills up to whatever u specify, so it cleans up objects not on the screen at intervals and 2048mb is the best so u would start the game with steam launch options -gc.buffer 2048
rust eventually added a slider in the game settings for that

[best matty]

just change your audio device in the options then change it back i dont know why this happens but i get it a lot

[Major Lee Ree]

I was gonna suggest the loudness equalisation thing it's great for games like DayZ too but someone already beat me to it

[MeKLiN]

yeah u can search in REGEDIT for 'fxproperties' to get to that area and add those keys to make the tab appear in advanced volume control/sound device settings as well if it isnt there. what takes it over is if you install your custom sound card drivers, which will have like Crystal Clarity sound or SUPER BASS weird goofy things, reducing the card chip ability to process all the game sound. there is likely some loss in full audio processing using the windows apo. to ensure u using the original high definition audio drivers , which may not even be the best option, just dont install say a custom soundblaster card driver whi`ch makes multiple tabs in the sound settings for everything other than 'enhancements' but those keys are easy to find and replace to make the tab appear.

furthermore, people with onboard soundcards always will have a DIM and LOW VOLUME due to the weak chip inside the motherboard, not a full basically pentium 4 cpu, a soundblaster card in 1998 had 50,000,000 transistors the same as a pentium 4 processor i doubt realtek afford to give evryone that. I CANNOT HEAR ANYTHING FOOTSTEPS EVEN WITH THE TWEAK ON WITH MY DEFAULT REALTEK, I HAVE A 2020 B550 CHIPSET RYZEN 3600X ASUS PRIME B550M-A WIFI BOARD.

when i plug in even the cheapest soundblaster pcie soundcard i immediately kill all other rogues and get called a cheater in pm cuz of how precise my hearing is, FROM THE CARD IM NOT SPECIAL (ok i am a lil), kind of like when rangers shoot the air (invis rogues u here) and hit u, and u report for cheater (1 of my last 20 reports is banned! i KNOW when someone is cheating, ive got 10 people banned since being here for 2000 hours).

additionally, i cant hear the game good anymore, i hear volume but not direction, because i split my headphones line to provide audio for my recordings which puts me in a true jedi mode like actually drunk and actually drunk in the game from a green and blue ale (very old and moldy) fighting the banshee. i cant tell which direction it comes from its the ultimate challenge. people right to my left sound like they are behind me. but as soon as i cut the line to the other soundcard it gives the full signal to my hyperx headphones and i can hear everything where it is as my brain is used to.

this audio setup has to be split before the line goes anywhere not halfway down the cable but best would be to repeat the audio to the lineout channel itself. the lineout does work this way but not with the green port audio default channel for speakers. so virtual audio cable can repeat it and its a better option than using network to lag you if ur making videos for the game. so in linux on the 2nd pc i have a SECOND soundblaster card but its a titanium x-fi PCI yeah thats right PCI not pci-e for an old 2014 skylake i5-6600, the hacked bios edition when all motherboard companies said f* intel and gave us ability to oc the NON-K chips (this chip is like $40 right now if ur trying to build a budget streaming pc!) any gpu will handle the rendering anyway)),. and the split line goes to the Line In, or the blue port on the other pc, and in linux alsa/pavuctrl u can select if whats coming in is a mic, a direct line in, etc, or all 3 and it figures it out itself its awesoome. then u can mix ur own mic urself no need for a big goofy program just add it to obs and its being recorded. not sure why people send like 300kbps on their network overloading their cpu just to get sound to another pc.

i have 200gb of pure high definition 1080 15000kbp/s rogue slaughtering backstack videos especially from my mmr calculation videos where im coming in with a full kit vs the green and blue boys but i didnt get to record my triple triple kill games which i had a few 9 kill games and some people get 12 - 13 kills but if u win every round the max kills anyone can get is 9 and i got them all a few times it seems like something only a rogue could do, and if they fix error code 21 i will make it happen again.

[Fdpulpe]

Originally posted by MeKLiN:

WIN+R
MMSYS.CPL
double click active sound card
Enhancements tab there?
Check box for LOUDNESS EQUALIZATION

if not you have to regedit it:


Find the registry key of your sound device under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MMDevices\Audio\Render

by looking inside the Properties key. Then, in the FxProperties key, add/replace the following string values: we are in \Render... ----- \Capture are microphones
PRO TIP: remotecapture and remoterender are new and to catch criminals((old windows did not has this, and ive been watching/editing all that they add for years!!!)) but my special windows for gamers does not have any remote drivers whatsoever, ask for more info!))

Valuename ----------------------------------------- Value
{d04e05a6-594b-4fb6-a80d-01af5eed7d1d},1 {62dc1a93-ae24-464c-a43e-452f824c4250}

{d04e05a6-594b-4fb6-a80d-01af5eed7d1d},2 {637c490d-eee3-4c0a-973f-371958802da2}

{d04e05a6-594b-4fb6-a80d-01af5eed7d1d},3 {5860E1C5-F95C-4a7a-8EC8-8AEF24F379A1}


what this means is the 3 keys starting with {d04e05a6- above are going to have different values, change them to what is shown above

realtek soundcards (onboard motherboard garbage chip) will have this apo default. if you use the windows version of your discrete soundcard driver, u may have them. if u install the actual driver for say, a soundblaster x-fi , which is what i use, or audigy soundblaster, then your apo may disappear and u will have a hard time regediting that simply. now if u really have dingy sound after this, and it isnt even usable, u just have a bad chip. if i dont use my sound card and use the onboard motherboard sound port, it sounds like garbage. buy a PCI or PCI-E soundcard and use the tweak u will never get snuck up on again

dude I tried because the sound is often inaudible, but I find that "LOUDNESS EQUALIZATION" is bad because it increases my sound and reduces my sound when it wants, I can increase and reduce my sound manually too but it's bad for me, the sound is often a problem for me in this game and yet I play with a headset, I tried stereo or 7.1 but I still have this problem