Distorted sound from refineries/arc furnace and assembler?

[Big Ron]

I've got the sound set to realistic and whenever I'm in a oxygen free environment and standing on the grid near the blocks their sounds sound very distorted and crackly but fine when standing next to them in a oxygen present environment with and without my helmet on.

[CelticChaos]

I doubt this is a game thing, I would suspect your audio drivers. Have you tried a simpler audio setting to see if the problem persists? I have not experienced this however, I do know that the ambient volume that comes from the refiniery is (very lound) in comparison to the rest of the blocks (not sure why that is). I have tried numerious audio setitng and none of it seems to make a difference - whenever I am near the refinery I for the most part can't hear anything else.

[Big Ron]

Originally posted by Silverwing:

I doubt this is a game thing, I would suspect your audio drivers. Have you tried a simpler audio setting to see if the problem persists? I have not experienced this however, I do know that the ambient volume that comes from the refiniery is (very lound) in comparison to the rest of the blocks (not sure why that is). I have tried numerious audio setitng and none of it seems to make a difference - whenever I am near the refinery I for the most part can't hear anything else.

I'll try a reinstall/update of my Audio Drivers, and see fi that helps out. The refinery sound quite loud while I'm standing next to it :S

[kaylo7]

Wouldn't be too quick to dismiss it as driver-related - both myself and a friend experienced very strange ship sounds when touching the deck in artificial gravity, on a large grid, in space. We also play with realistic sound settings.

It was only once, but he tried flying around for a while to avoid touching the deck before finally saying he had to turn off his headset, as it was crackling like the speakers were going out. A few play sessions later I experienced the same thing, and my first impulse was to think it was my headphones, though they are not very old.

I then rememberd his description of the exact same thing, and sure enough my headphones worked great on a reload, and have never had any issues outside of that single session. So hearing it now from someone else, I'm fairly certain this is an intermittent bug.

[Big Ron]

Well I've updated my drivers and the issue still persists. I've tried making a new world and it's no different, might try reinstalling the game next.

[Slye_Fox]

You said you're using realistic sounds?

Then the distortion is correct, as the sound is traveling up your leg, not through the air.

[Big Ron]

Originally posted by Slye_Fox:

You said you're using realistic sounds?

Then the distortion is correct, as the sound is traveling up your leg, not through the air.

When I say distortion I mean it's like crackly/staticy

[Big Ron]

Reinstalling the game fixed it right up.

[CelticChaos]

awesome, good information - thanks for the follow up.

[kaylo7]

Still wondering if that is what "fixed" it, as again we also experienced crackling sounds through our headsets when touching a grid with a working refinery/assembler with realistic sound enabled, and it went away after a reload. No verifying files, reloading or driver updates on our end. Hopefully if anyone else experiences this, they'll find the thread to expedite troubleshooting and help narrow it down.