What range does AudioQualityLevel have?
Is this the highest quality for audio or is there a better setting?
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Not sure what it even does.
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Keep in mind any change to game files that lead to an automated ban by EAC won’t be lifted by BHVR and it’s use at your own risk.
for that parameter, I read the range is 0-3. not sure how correct that info is though.
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I've read weird things about it, from fixing audio missing or obfuscated through audio occlusion, to being a piece of the not-really-hacking spirit that can just hear footsteps, breathing, worked on gens from miles away.
I don't know if any of it is true.
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Not much anymore.
Adjusting that a few years ago helped a little with all the audio issues. Not much of any benefit now.
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I've had it set to 2 for a couple years. AFAIK, it's a 0-2 range. As far as what it does, it's hard to describe. A dev would have to answer that. It certainly doesn't make up for the janky audio occlusion or audio bugs.
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It's an Unreal Engine 4 thing that can be set up however the devs want. I have no idea how BHVR configured it of course.
But usually the setting does 2 things: lets you play different sound files on different settings (doubt this is relevant for DBD), and lets you control the number of audio channels being used. For audio channels 0 is often the "best" option, or the one offering the most audio channels. Might be kinda weird but it's not that uncommon to see engines use the lowest number for the "best" setting, texture quality in classic Valve Source Engine games often have a range of -1 to 2 with -1 being "very high" and 2 being "low" for example.
Is more audio channels better? No clue. You'll have to either gather opinions from people that use/used alternative settings (I've never touched it in DBD) or try 1 and 2 instead of 0 yourself I guess.
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most of those settings don't affect any gameplay and don't give you any advantage, or any exploit
as long as you don't use the ones that might do such thing and upset the EAC
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Yeah but if an EAC update ever does ban for a minor setting then it’s done. So i guess it should have been mentioned
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but ur saying it like EAC is gonna ban me for changing graphics settings or disabling vsync
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EAC banned me for having a corrupted RGB driver for my computer lights.
Would not put it past them.
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I am saying it is possible.
currently it is not happening and I don’t have heard of it happening before. I am just saying it could theoretically happen.
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A statement from the developers would be nice. I tried it myself, but I could never notice any difference.
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I don’t think the devs or anyone from BHVR would respond to this as they don’t openly want to promote changing game files.
Many of the settings in that file are changeable through the in-game menu after all and there are very likely reasons why the other settings are left out from there.
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The config file can be changed. There was an update a long time ago where they removed the features they didn't want to be messed with and then they did another fix shortly thereafter, because they had accidentally locked the ability to turn off antialiasing and they re-enabled that.
EAC, or any other anti cheat, doesn't check the config file nor does have a reason to. The actual cheats are done by editing the pak files and that will get one banned eventually.
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Is there official confirmation by BHVR that it’s save to change the config files?
i know EAC doesn’t do it now, but haven’t seen confirmation that a future update might change that…
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Many of settings are actually not possible to change in game, in fact about like a little of 90% of those settings aren't adjustable in the game...
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