Has anybody got a workaround for the sound bug?

[SwampDragon]

Realistic sounds are completely borked. Every time you use a jetpack to leave a grid the ship noises get stuck in a loop. Then they continue to loop and build, and loop and build, until it's a wall of unbearable noise. Keen have known about this issue for a while now. I am not interested in why it hasn't been fixed, I just want a community workaround or mod?

https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/24625-realistic-sound-broken-with-todays-update-patch-1-201

[natknut]

I was just about to post this myself. I came back after about a year or two only to find this nasty issue.

[TheVipersFang]

It is known. It has been reported. There is a rumour that it will be "fixed in the next patch" (tm). The best you can hope for is to use arcade sound mode and save/load.

[natknut]

Saving and loading does work to stave it off a bit, but that is obviously still annoying.

[SwampDragon]

According to that bug report ^ people say it happens in arcade mode too? Reloading every time you take your feet off the ground is not really a workaround - it's bloody annoying. I am curious how anybody is managing to put up with this? It's totally game breaking for me, even nauseating.

Is it that people have been playing for 6 months with the sound completely off?

[natknut]

Originally posted by SwampDragon:

According to that bug report ^ people say it happens in arcade mode too? Reloading every time you take your feet off the ground is not really a workaround - it's bloody annoying. I am curious how anybody is managing to put up with this? It's totally game breaking for me, even nauseating.

Is it that people have been playing for 6 months with the sound completely off?

mostly just that I normally play youtube in the background when I game anyway, so it's not all I'm hearing. So I save and reload when it just gets too much.

[Capt Fuzzy]

This is a strange bug that I guess I have been lucky enough to have not experienced.
I do run mods, including a couple of sound mods, but have always played with arcade sound, so maybe that's the reason that I've never had this happen.
I feel your pain though, there's nothing worse than a f*#%d up soundscape...

[Dan2D3D]

HI, I have disabled the music in Vanilla SS world and I did not noticed this bug yet.

+ Tho I mostly play creative mode it's all good in survival, too.

Workaround may be to disable the music ??

[Dan2D3D]

Oh! I forgot to specify my worlds are set Offline mode, too!

[Dan2D3D]

SwampDragon,

can you share your save?

I could load it to see if I have the same problem, and you could share the steps to reproduce so I can do the exact same thing you do to have this bug.

1 - Share the steps to repro, so what I have to do to see the bug.

2 - Share the world.
>> How to publish a world save :

1 - Select your save.

2 - Click the "Publish" button on the left.

3 - Choose a proper Tag, check Steam upload and click the OK button.

4 - Your world will be uploaded to Steam Workshop.

5 - Paste the Workshop item link here.

[Dan2D3D]

The STR would go like this :

- Enter the ship named "Ship 1" from the blue door.
- Exit the ship from red door by walking inside the ship.
- fly at 5km away from ship 1 using jetpack.

= Notice the sound bug ....

[SwampDragon]

Hi Dan 2D3D,

There is a link to the official bug report in the opening post, and it's in the format you are requesting. There's 100 or so other people also bumping it up. the bug was confirmed as existing by your dev team 6 months ago.

To reproduce the issue: Get in to a spaceship with realistic sounds enabled and jump up and down. Each time your feet leave the ground the ambient sound loops and multiples as described. In a ship with lots of working machinery around the noise becomes swiftly intolerable.

Based on the advice of TheVipersFang I tried running the game with arcade sound enabled and it did indeed alleviate (but not completely eliminate) the problem. So that is the workaround if anybody is reading this, if one can handle the immersion hit.

[Dan2D3D]

I already know the bug and I thought you wanted new workaround so I shared my settings since I did not encounter this bug and wanted to try your save to see if I have the bug.

[Dan2D3D]

I lost the sound on the left side at some point and it fixed itself.

I can try again in my save but I woild prefer to try a save where it already happens.

[SwampDragon]

Originally posted by Dan2D3D:

I already know the bug and I thought you wanted new workaround so I shared my settings since I did not encounter this bug and wanted to try your save to see if I have the bug.

That is very kind of you. Sorry, I thought you were trying to confirm it existing. I already have sound switched off, although I never play creative. I would upload my file if I thought it/or you might help but the problem is ubiquitous enough to not need a specific case example? If you are on realistic sounds, in space, with loud machinery around, it will happen. And if it doesn't happen for you, then I would be keen to know.

Edit: Ok I will get my save.

[SwampDragon]

Please note that this is currently saved as arcade sound. Switch to realistic, stand somewhere near machinery below deck and jump up and down.. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2892782329

Thanks for trying to help.

When noise starts to loop. Fly far from the ship. The noise will still be at full volume despite distance.