Darwinia 1.42 outputs clicking noise when using dsoal.

kotenok2000 commented 2 years ago

mirh commented 2 years ago

That's a pretty old build. You want to use this now to report bugs https://github.com/kcat/dsoal/actions/runs/1937854569#artifacts

kotenok2000 commented 2 years ago

It still clicks with this build

ThreeDeeJay commented 2 years ago

@kotenok2000 Just tested the demo and noticed a couple things:

Low SoundChannels (Num channels in-game) like 8 results in more frequent noises and glitching so it seems 64 is the best it can do, so you should try sources=128 or maybe more in alsoft.ini just to be safe. Also it seems that reducing period_size in alsoft.ini to something low like 64 fixes the clicks, while high values like 8192 make it a lot worse.
Sounds above sound like they're below and viceversa. So you'll need the most recent OpenAL Soft which supports reversing the Y-axis by adding this to alsoft.ini:
```
[game_compat]
reverse-y=true
```
Realtime effects adds some reverb but causes a crash after some time. So set SoundDSP = 0 in preferences.txt to fix. Logs: dsoal_error.txt - alsoft_error.txt
Hardware3d Sound causes a crash if it's disabled and DSOAL/Alchemy are installed. So set SoundHW3D = 1 in preferences.txt to fix. Logs: dsoal_error.txt - alsoft_error.txt

So the audio settings should look like this:

ThreeDeeJay commented 2 years ago

Longer, higher quality video with some gameplay: https://youtu.be/uquZ7lUdYA0

ThreeDeeJay commented 2 years ago

On a side note, just read the game's been remastered in an update that adds 3D audio so it probably works better right out of the box https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1500/view/6150237114786411070

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