You don't want 3D sounds active as it is one of the most troublesome and frequent sources of crashing.

Sound.ini provides adjustable ranges:

[Sound]
nickname = tl_disrupt
file = AUDIO\SOUNDS\EQUIPMENT\shield_offline.wav
attenuation = -6
range = 50, 1000

Music can be adjusted in range simple by adding it to a small zone.
Volume is adjusted at the attenuation setting:

[Sound]
nickname = music_awe_and_wonderment
file = AUDIO\MUSIC\music_awe_and_wonderment.wav
type = music
attenuation = 0
streamer = true

0 is the loudest. Go down to -18 for a whisper.

You can mess around with the parameters in soundcfg.ini

[CFG]
ear_doppler_factor = 0.100000
ducking_rtc_down_by = -10
ducking_rtc_down_time = 0.250000
default_crv_pitch = 0
default_crv_attenuation = 0
music_fade_time = 3.000000
cross_fade_silence = -96.000000
cockpit_attenuation = 0
ducking_spaceflight_down_by = -9
ducking_spaceflight_down_time = 0.200000
ducking_spaceflight_up_time = 0.750000
spaceflight_dialogue_pan_range = 30.000000
ducking_comm_down_by = -12.000000
ducking_comm_down_time = 0.250000
ducking_comm_up_time = 0.850000
master_music = 0
master_ambient = 0
master_interface = 0
master_sfx = 0
master_voice = 0
[reverb]
nickname = dry
settings = 0, 0, 0
[reverb]
nickname = bar_small
settings = 0, 0, 0
[reverb]
nickname = equip_large
settings = 0, 0, 0

If I remember right, someone discovered the ducking referred to sound getting quieter over distance (or was it which sound became more prominate over another).

you would think that if it is THE leading cause of unexplained stupid crashes it would get more attention in order to fix this "broken feature" and make the unexplained crashed explainable and then preventable.

isnt that how it normally works?

not to be out of order here, but all the advances made in this game over the all of the however many years its been around, 9 years. nobody has managed or possibly even tried to fix a problem that everyone knows exists?

it wouldnt honestly supprise me if the doppler effect is the reason for all the crashes, as i think that requires complicated mathematics to do. but cant that be removed all together with


this, by making it 0.0 ..

this is kind of disappointing in a way, because ive seen some stuff thats made my jaw drop on this forum more than a dozen times since ive been here, with so many bright minds id have though if something was so obviously broken, it be fixed first.

its like a bunch of Einsteins, creating the theory of relativity while living in a house with a huge hole in the roof. lol

If you feel so insulted nobody's done research on the subject, I'd suggest you go ahead and do it yourself.

If nobody's worked on it before, it's because they didn't find the subject interesting to them. I find your entitlement to this feature rather misplaced. We are not the game developers, we are under no obligation to fix features that they botched up.

im sorry the post came across that way, I had just broke up with my girlfriend a few hours before i posted.

i was simply shocked that given the amount of advances in the game something that everyone knows is broken, wasnt fixed. because i didnt know it was 'broken'.

however looking at w0dk4's post also helped me see why, it wasnt possible



that would indeed make it quite difficult to debug, again sorry for the way that post came across

Thanks FF.

well, i can say that ive never experianced such a bug as w0dka described, while having 3D audio active. I run window's Vista home premium 32 bit.

so just to kinda close the thread, does anyone know how to make 3D audio automatically active for players who play my mod. ?

and if possible remove the ability to turn it off.

yes i am aware of the problems outlined throughout this thread