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I noticed that the sound gets muffled and kind of cuts out between
*** and Lowes on every lap at Monaco. I only noticed this with
the DirectSound3D patch. In 2D the sound was fine. Anyone else
notice this? These is also some sound dropping out at Spa while
going through Eau Rouge.

Thanks.

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I am amused by this terminology "3-D sound"!!
The people who coined this must really have been desperate :o)

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Why would you say that? Have you tried F1RS with the 3D sound
patch? Your situational awareness goes way up with the 3D sound.
Plus it is well known that sound is heard in 3 dimensions, so I am not
sure what you are getting at, or why you think you cracked a joke.

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You hit it when you said....

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At best you have probably been hearing stereo or left/right positionaly.
But not to the side or rear... That is the whole point :-)

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Greg,
What 3D sound card are you using?
I'm looking to upgrade.

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Ah but...

Give me *two* speakers and I'll float a piano above your head. I'll make the snare seem to come from beyond the front wall, and the singer whisper in your ear. All without your fancy shmancy digital mastering.

Give me one speaker and I'll still be able to locate the sounds in reference to each other. Plus, that single wave form is still in 3D. Old tricks my man. Just in a new shiny and more efficient package. Makes it easier to implement. Therefore more common.

Saying "3D sound" is like advertising "Pungent sardines". They're only using it because it's the hip catch phrase of the day. If they could they'd say "Nike Sound".

To answer your original question,  my guess is either the sound card has not been set up properly and can't play all the sounds you're asking it to, or when the plank sounds try to play with the engine and other sounds, in that particular instance, there is some cancellation due to sloppy encoding on the part of the sound designers at UBI's end.

Try dodging the sewer lid at *** to see if it helps.

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    >You hit it when you said....
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    >> Plus it is well known that sound is heard in 3 dimensions,
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    >I KNOW it is heard in 3 dimensions so how on earth could it be anything
    >other than '3-D'?!!  In other words, how many dimensions have I been

    Because you have 2 speakers in front of you. The 3D patch changes
    the phase of the sounds (or seems to) so that you can tell if the cars
    are right next to you, in the rear to one side or the other or the front
    to one side or the other. This kind of thing is not possible in F1RS
    without the 3D sound patch.

    >hearing my game sounds in for the past ump*** years....two?  Loud and
    >soft?  :o)

    At best you have probably been hearing stereo or left/right positionaly.
    But not to the side or rear... That is the whole point :-)

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Oh yeah. I forgot to add the NICE2 is doing a very good job of the "3D" sound thing with some good engineering and my dumb SB16.

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    Ah but...

    Give me *two* speakers and I'll float a piano above your head. I'll make the snare seem to come from beyond the front wall, and the singer whisper in your ear. All without your fancy shmancy digital mastering.

It is an Ensoniq AudioPCI.

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I think it is your latter choice. The card and sound work fine at monaco
with the 2D enabled (WAVx2). It is only if I enable the 3D sound patch
that these things start happening.

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