Alt-tabbing corrupts sound over time
Avaruu
Texas Join Date: 2016-06-06 Member: 218168Members
Texas Join Date: 2016-06-06 Member: 218168Members
Hi. I play in windowed mode and alt-tab a lot for different reasons - sometimes I'll need to search for something game related, or respond to someone, play something else in the foreground... all that kind of thing.
I don't know what patch this started in, especially as I play experimental, but very recently I've started to notice that, over time, my in-game sound starts to wig out by playing at different pitches and/or speeds. Gameplay isn't affected, and all sound still plays at the correct time, for the correct length of the sound file, but it ends up with the AI (seamoth, etc) sounding like one of the Chipmunks or speaking really slowly, sea creature noises slow down, machinery sounds weird... etc. Eventually it gets way spooky!
I can't prove that tabbing out and into the game does it, but I think that it probably does as that's when the game is loading stuff back in.
I don't know what patch this started in, especially as I play experimental, but very recently I've started to notice that, over time, my in-game sound starts to wig out by playing at different pitches and/or speeds. Gameplay isn't affected, and all sound still plays at the correct time, for the correct length of the sound file, but it ends up with the AI (seamoth, etc) sounding like one of the Chipmunks or speaking really slowly, sea creature noises slow down, machinery sounds weird... etc. Eventually it gets way spooky!
I can't prove that tabbing out and into the game does it, but I think that it probably does as that's when the game is loading stuff back in.
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Hey, I alt-tab all the time and have never got this issue. I am really interested to see what is causing this. If you have any more information can you @ me.
Its mostly annoying, but can be funny...I've been low on health and the voice-over was slow. The slurred sound of it was pretty good, nearly thought it was programmed that way, until the chipmunks took over the comms relay... Hilarious.