Xbox Series X Audio Popping Still

Ngl this gives the 47 the run for money lol

 

You're right there!

Don't worry about the audio problems, just so long as some of the lifts are working priorities and all.

 

It would be funny, if not for the fact that improved audio (for xbox) was a supposed improvement of tsw 5.

 

Yeah I found the lifts at Queen street don't work

 

O dear, it gets worse

 

Just found a video on YT of the 153 on Xbox series x. The audio popping sound in the cab is constant. Sounds awful.

 

Here is a link to the video (not my video) how on earth this audio passed any kind of QA

 

Is it on the 150 too? or just the 153?

 

DTG Jamie any news to share at all? New content is still being released with the same issue.

 

Just 153

 

That's really weird. I mean it's good that it doesn't affect both. But I wonder what was done differently to the 153.

 

Playing class 43 after todays update on Xbox Series X popping sound still happening with that train.

 

What I find confusing, is that Xbox owners had to put up with terrible machine gun sounding audio glitches for the longest time, this was excused as being the way Unreal handles audio differently on Xbox compared to all the other platforms - an odd claim, given that I haven't had audio issues in the numerous other Unreal Engine powered games I've played on Xbox.

Then a different kind of audio issue rears its ugly head in TSW5, and again it is Xbox only, but what's the excuse this time?

Unreal, or DTG?

 

I believe the reason/excuse given now, is Unreal again. Xbox handles the audio differently.

Much like the Zfighting, that's all xbox's fault too.

 

Here we are, here's a clip from the roadmap.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxt00Pu5UxDHV5vHfEzr5cH9aD5qHyeQkt?si=ahHvpDZzK4zQBIij

 

What ever was changed for tsw 5 to improve the audio, can't they just role it back. Much less popping in tsw 4.

 

Who knows, that might even help with the audio squelching we also have on PC. Again, it never did that before TSW5. Sadly I begin to despair that DTG have anyone on staff capable of understanding and working with the game engine they chose for TSW o do anything with it.

 

From what I remember, TSW has always had audio problems in some form on another.

Remember the early days of bad audio occlusion? Where the outside sound would stay when inside the cab. They did solve that mind you, so maybe there is some hope.

 

Yes it has always been an issue but previously the stuttering did not cause quite such a marked distortion of the sound. I remember when London Commuter first came out and was mega stuttery. The sound tended to drop rather than squelch when that occurred. Still annoying but not to the extent it is now. I’m not sure what changes have evolved - maybe how sound links to Simugraph - to make it so now, but needs a deep dive into the code to sort it out.

 

DTG Matt

Is there any specific reason why audio popping is much worse on tsw 5, compared to previous versions?

 

Any news if this has been fixed for tsw 6? Finally, maybe.

 

Hi,

Same question as my neighbor Bob12212??? because there are still so many audio problems on TSW5.

And no way to buy TSW6, if the sound problem is the same as on TSW5, sorry!!

 

Yep, I'll get the free starter pack, because then at least any routes I already own port over. I'm still surprised there isn't more attention drawn to this from the Xbox player base.

 

Watching and carefully listening on Xbox X live streams, I can confirm it’s still there and on all new trains. Some worse than others. On a positive note there appears to no z fighting on the new locomotives!

 

Yeah, I couldn't see any z-fighting either! I really wish they could sort the popping audio out.

 

Yep, maybe one day, perhaps in TSW12
Of all the hundreds of games I’ve played on Xbox of the years this is the only one that has that audio popping distortion….. why can’t this be fixed? Last we heard, it was a priority for the team….that was in April….!

 

They were supposed to have improved the audio when tsw 5 released. However, clearly not this part. Same as you, I've never encountered anything like it in any other games I've played. Sounds silly, but it's the main thing that stops me from enjoying tsw and wanting to invest in new content.

 

It seems there is now an audio popping issue on Playstation too, although it may not be the same root cause.

 

totally agree, I can’t understand this company, there is no plan to fix or update major bugs that stop customers investing more money in the product.
No other game gets launched in this state or if it did it would be patched, they either can’t be bothered or do not have the technical expertise to sort the issue.

 

Whilst enough sales still roll in regardless, where's their incentive to invest the time to implement a fix.

 

PlayStation will have a fix by the end of the week, for the newly introduced audio popping. When can we finally expect the situation on Xbox to be looked at? As this has carried over multiple iterations of tsw.

I appreciate the underlying cause was probably completely different across the two platforms, but an update for xbox situation wouldn't go amiss.

 

Cue the tumbleweed and the usual silence from DTG……….

 

I'm so fed up of this audio popping. And the game often seems worst on Series S. They need to pull their fingers out of their arses and actually do something. This is the only Series of games where I experience this. What is wrong with dtg honestly it's ridiculous

 

I've asked about it on a fair few of the road maps. The question either gets ignored completely, or the old "nothing to report" then move on.

 

DTG Matt This is incredibly unacceptable that Xbox owners have this issue for years, yet PlayStation get it resolved within the week.

Could we have an explanation please?

 

I was really considering buying the riviera line, as some streams I've seen looked really good. Then I found an xbox stream, changed my mind.

 

I bought riviera line and whilst there's much worse performing routes in this game such as Euston-M.Keynes It doesn't perform or look as well as it seems to on other platforms. I seriously think DTG don't even bother testing routes on Xbox, especially Series S but they test it on a PlayStation or something and just say "if it performs okay then it also will on Xbox" not taking into account that they're completely different consoles. Utter laziness. Third party creators seem to be a lot better than dtg especially Just Trains as their Blackpool branches is absolutely stunning. If you look at that route then look at a dtg route the level of laziness is obvious in the route quality. On the positive side though on riviera line I haven't yet had a single game crash which is very unusual for me as I'm so used to having them constantly on many routes. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

 

DTG

lets ask again……….DTG Harry, Please is there any news regarding the audio popping bug ticket that was created in January?

 

Just been playing the Riviera Line, and at times the audio popping is so bad in my headphones I had to double check that I was actually playing TSW6, and not an old Doo-wop record from the 1940s...

 

Haven't noticed any issues with it myself on Riviera.

 

Just confirm you’re playing on Xbox and you don’t have audio pops and distortion every 4 seconds…..

 

Only driven the Voyager 220 so far, and you can't not hear it.

 

The 220 is the worst for it

 

I am on Xbox and no haven't heard any.

 

I can not hear it.