Just got a new PC and was doing to some benchmarking when I noticed something I can't say i've ever noticed before and i've been playing MC since 2010. When I spin around I suddenly noticed that the sound of water or fire blocks quickly cut off and back on when i'm not looking at them to when i'm gazing in their direction. The same goes for my chicken and cow pens. One such chicken pen has about 15 chickens heavily clustered in it. When I stand right next to it but look away I dont' hear chickens at all or if I do they sound very distant. The moment I spin around suddenly an explosion of clucking noises.
I'm running the most recent version of MC but I also went back to 1.5.2 and that version exhibits the same sound dampening behavior.
At present I'm using no mods, just trying to get MC working to spec again.
Is this really normal MC behavior and I've just never noticed it before?
Just got a new PC and was doing to some benchmarking when I noticed something I can't say i've ever noticed before and i've been playing MC since 2010. When I spin around I suddenly noticed that the sound of water or fire blocks quickly cut off and back on when i'm not looking at them to when i'm gazing in their direction. The same goes for my chicken and cow pens. One such chicken pen has about 15 chickens heavily clustered in it. When I stand right next to it but look away I dont' hear chickens at all or if I do they sound very distant. The moment I spin around suddenly an explosion of clucking noises.
I'm running the most recent version of MC but I also went back to 1.5.2 and that version exhibits the same sound dampening behavior.
At present I'm using no mods, just trying to get MC working to spec again.
Is this really normal MC behavior and I've just never noticed it before?