Sound was upgraded in the 2.0.12 patch.

NeoXanthus

I see from the patch notes the sound was upgraded. Dose anybody know the sampling rate music and sound effects are recorded in?

Nestor

I doubt that was what was changed. They are always tweaking sounds and adding new ones and removing ones that sound bad.

As for the rate, probably standard CD quality. That gives the most compatibility.

eventide03b14a_ESO

Nestor wrote: »

I doubt that was what was changed. They are always tweaking sounds and adding new ones and removing ones that sound bad.

As for the rate, probably standard CD quality. That gives the most compatibility.

Heck yeah, 4GB of improvement bro!

Nestor

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

Heck yeah, 4GB of improvement bro!

Shame that they have to replace the whole archive and not just the sound files that are being changed...

phairdon

Does this mean we will actually be able to hear all the pve quest givers? Not just read their text...

NeoXanthus

Nestor when you write “standard CD quality” does this mean 44.1 kHz? The reason I ask is my DAC has a 8x symmetrical up-sampling and it sounds better if the base speaker system output frequency is set correctly.

Elsonso

The person to ask about this is @ZOS_BillMueller (probably via someone like @ZOS_GinaBruno) if you want an answer. They might also entertain it as a question for ESO Live, since the patch just updated a ton of audio stuff, if it was asked in that thread: forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142023/eso-live-ask-us-anything

Hexyl

no one care.

NEED PVP FIX.

cabbagechest

If it means they took out that "Red Diamond, Red Diamond" song, I'd count this as one of the top 5 patches of any game ever.

ZOS_BillMueller

NeoXanthus wrote: »

I see from the patch notes the sound was upgraded. Dose anybody know the sampling rate music and sound effects are recorded in?

Without getting into the specifics of which sample rates are what, we did do some up sampling of certain assets. We deliver raw .wav files at 48k 16bit into the audio engine, which we then compress for file size reasons. The amount of compression varies depending on what the asset actually is, and we went through a pretty extensive process of finding certain sounds we wanted to have a higher sample rate, and certain sounds that could live with a lower sample rate. This helps with performance and file size, while making sure the sounds that are "important" have a higher fidelity over all.

tl:dr all assets are worked on at 48k 16bit, and then down sampled for performance and file size reasons. Though we did up sample a lot of assets in general. Hopefully that answers you a bit?