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Weapon Accuracy / AIM Mode Improvements
V!NCENT:
--- Quote from: keefy on February 26, 2010, 10:32:57 pm ---The guy has a poitn chill out the explosions do crackle when multiple happen at once no matter your equipment.
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That's because the amplitude gets above +4 decibels and below -4 decibels. You can reduce the outgoing signal from your soundcard to +4DB and -4DB when lowering the volume.
When that's not enough your soundcards processor (or CPU if in software mode (which means suckage soundcard in both cases)) can't handle signals above and below the 4DB limit.
And external amplifier could then output the full analog signal to speakers with mids, highs and lows so the sound displays correctly.
So you are totally wrong... unless your speakers are just blown up...
VC:
Oh great bullshitter, please enlighten me as to how you get distortion because of a signal going below -4dB.
V!NCENT:
--- Quote from: Viashino Cutthroat on February 26, 2010, 11:09:31 pm ---Oh great bullshitter, please enlighten me as to how you get distortion because of a signal going below -4dB.
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Because the amplitude of the signal will never actually go beyond +4 and -4; it will just be cut off, which means a straight horizontal line and therefore not a soundwave, but just crackling distortion.
I made a quick and ugly graph to show you:
And please note that I have worked for a profesional light and sound company that does stage building and takes care of light and sound on television sets. I have worked with profesional light and audio equipment. I know what I am talking about here...
PS: In physics; each time the same sound gets duplicated, like 10 explosions of say 100db, the result is +3db. So:
1 explosions = 100db
2 explosions = 103db
3 explosions = 106db
And so forth and so forth...
Just lower the OS sound mixer signal and put the volume of your speakers higher and then the crackling will magically dissapear ;)
SoFGR:
interesting, what about windows XP ? lower down wave / master volume or both ? keep game volume at 100% ?
VC:
Thank you for the lol, I needed that.
The 2x = +3 is correct, but the decibel is an expression of an exponent, so a negative dB value has NOTHING to do with the sign of the value. You must have been working with dBW figures, which is entirely different.
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