MAX_CHANNELS Sound issue

[ghost]

Hello,

I am a map developer and server operator for Garry's Mod. I have two maps; one of which is used frequently by the playerbase on the server. As of around March time a change was made that caused sounds to stop playing on the map. After a little help on the Facepunch forum I discovered the developer command and started to see the error that was causing it, this was total_channels == MAX_CHANNELS.

I thought this was originally a change made to the maximum number of concurrent sounds by Garry, but after running some tests the problem occurs on TF2 and the Half-Life 2 steampipe beta. The map runs perfectly fine on the normal pre-steampipe Half-Life 2, probably because it does not have the change updated on it.

After doing some investigating, I think it may have something to do with "SoundEmitterSystem.dll" which was updated around the time the problem started happening.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VpBXB-hXQyY - This video shows Half-Life 2 pre-steampipe and current Garry's Mod. The Garry's Mod part is identical to the Half-Life 2 steampipe beta. You will notice that certain sounds aren't playing due to the error in the top left.

I make large scale maps and this seriously affects that. I really hope it can be investigated and fixed and then maybe Garry will be willing to help if he can port it over to his game.

Thanks.

[alfred-valve]

So for your custom maps you would like the number of sound channels increased?

[ghost]

That would be amazing if you could do that. Was it decreased in an update? because the concurrent sounds seemed to be higher.

[ghost]

Is this no longer possible due to it being out of beta?

[JohnOakman]

It's a big UP but I've posted the problem here: https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1511479&p=50919703