Radio com interferances

[fox_111]

Is it my sound card that is playing tricks on me, or the radio chat in BS has some random interferances modelled in it?

 

Sometime, especially when I'm around other aircrafts or powerfull radar, I get some weird noises and the voices are overlapped or stepped on by the noises. Sometime it sound like real interferances like in the real world.

 

Is it normal?

[JDski]

I've got the same thing on some missions. I thought at first someone nearby was broadcasting on a ham radio or something and bleeding over onto my PC. The transmissions are not understandable.

Then I realized it was the game. The thing is, it cuts off all other sounds like engine etc unlike a normal radio transmission in the game. In the same mission I can hear regular radio transmissions just fine and understandable without them cutting off all other sounds. I'm not sure what these transmissions or sound files are. But they don't seem to be playing right.

[EtherealN]

The thing is, it cuts off all other sounds like engine etc unlike a normal radio transmission in the game.

 

Are you absolutely certain of that? The way our senses are registered in the brain are such that it phases out "old" things for "new", so it is entirely possible that the engine sounds and all that are still actually playing but your brain doesn't bother registering them while that sudden noise hits.

 

The same thing is also the reason why you don't constantly feel the fabric of your underwear or the smell of your home - it's been phased out because the brain is used to it and literally has limited bandwidth to play with.

[Feuerfalke]

Interesting idea, EtherealN.

 

But apart from suggesting he's flying for weeks and month with little breaks to get that used to the sound, there's something illogic:

 

He said the sound cuts off when the transmissions starts.

 

Transfered into your example, that would mean you feel your underwear consciously all the time as long as no other information is provided.

But if you get touched by anything else, you notice that you can no longer feel your pants.

 

 

 

Well, while this ... example... is said to be happening in real life to some people in some way (ahem), your theory does not fit to the posted error. :smilewink:

[JDski]

Yes I'm positive all other sounds dissaprear. That's what made it seem like it was real outside interference instead of the game at first. It was this fact in particular that made it stand out from any other radio transmissions which made me question whether something is wrong.

So yes as in Feuerfalke's example, I suddenly feel rather drafty on my bottom side while this happens.:huh:

[Svend_Dellepude]

It is not the ekran telling you something in russian, is it?

[Sentonal]

What is the sound Card? Or if built in card ---

Motherboard or model number and brand of your PC?

[fox_111]

Built in sound card for now.

 

mother board is P5K SE with Intel dual core 2.33Ghz

Computer is custom made game rig.

 

I cheaped on the sound card at the time and I miss my old computer for it.

[JDski]

I'm using an Audigy 2. I found the sound files that are playing when this happens. They are the Chatter.ogg files. (ie. Chatter1.ogg, chatter2.ogg etc.)

I loaded up the mission where I heard this happen "Altitude" and sure enough, my other sounds get either muted or distorted. I tried going to external, and then they sound better, but still some very slight distortion to the engine sound when these chatter files play. After running that mission, I found the files in the "Blackshark/temp/mission" folder.

I played the chatter.ogg files with winamp and apparently they are supposed to be poor distorted radio broadcasts. But why they are interfering with the normal ambient cockpit sounds, like the engine, I'm not sure because other radio transmissions don't do that.

It sounds wierd, but I'm not loosing any sleep over it.

[geogob]

I have the feeling the radio model is fairly complex despite of it apparent simplicity. While playing around with it and trying to listen to broadcast radio, I even got the feeling crosstalk in the receiver was modeled. Very nice.

[fox_111]

I saw in the game folder that there where some radio station music of some sort... Can you tune them in the cockpit to listen to during flight?

 

Nerver mind, I found my info in the read-me I did not saw before.

 

You can place in this folder any music for listening broadcast Radio Mayak in Ka-50 cockpit with R-800 radio receiver (UHF-2, 125675 KHz, AM). The transmitter is installed in Maykop city.

 

After adding new sound files, you will need to delete the file named SampleDurationTable.lua located in the Sounds folder. When starting the next mission, it will generate automaticaly a new version of "SampleDurationTable.lua" with the updated information concerning your new sound file.

 

Supported both type of files OGG or WAV.

Note. OGG files at start cause the small FPS stutter in dependencies from size of the file. WAV files do not cause such appreciable stuttering.

Edited January 27, 2009 by fox_111