13 replies to this topic

[ashleigh mcmahon]

Sound cuts off, starts humming, then crashes to desktop minutes after. This only happens in WvW when heavy action is ongoing and usually after about 30minutes.

Anyone else get this, is there a fix?

Thanks
Ash

[Baldur The Bold]

Go to your audio settings in the game and set the audio back to default. That usually fixes this well known issue.

[Nex]

In the Audio options in-game, set the Mixing buffer option to either Most Stable or one notch below it. That should probably fix it, it did for me. You might also want to lower the Sound Quality option down a couple of notches if the first option doesn't work.

[ashleigh mcmahon]

Thanks, will try this. Driver related?

[The Comfy Chair]

Mine can 'break' in massive fights and starts 'humming' (doing a weird woo woo sound over and over) and it can't be fixed at all except to leave the game

[Firetruck]

The Comfy Chair, on 08 October 2012 - 11:56 AM, said:

Mine can 'break' in massive fights and starts 'humming' (doing a weird woo woo sound over and over) and it can't be fixed at all except to leave the game

This just happened to me for the second time! It's scary as hell, since I don't know what it is.

[Juminator]

ashleigh mcmahon, on 07 October 2012 - 05:27 PM, said:

Thanks, will try this. Driver related?

Totally super crappy and unstable sound engine related, nothingh wrong with your machine

Like it was said already , change your ingame sound settings and see what works best for you.

[Lord Sojar]

Sound issue is just as bad and buggy as graphics engine.  Needs serious improvement.

[jonasklk]

Happens to me every time i fight the Claw <.<

[Amelia]

Good to know that this time it's not my crappy PC fault . But then, sad to know it's a common problem ...
Imagine that pain when you get a crash couse of it and next thing you got is a long WvW queue ...

Edited by Amelia, 14 October 2012 - 01:42 PM.

[Amelia]

I was wondering if anyone found out some other way how to fix the problem?
Nothing helped me as for now ...

[Lord Sojar]

It's not something we can fix.  ANET has a lot of work to do on the client... so you'll have to wait on them to do said fixes to get a surefire way to fix it.

[MisterB]

What about the -nosound command line argument? It's definitely not a fix, but can it serve as a workaround for crash to desktop?

http://wiki.guildwar...uments#-nosound

Edited by MisterB, 31 October 2012 - 07:21 PM.

[Amelia]

But there has to be something about it , if one can play WvWvW few hours without problems and another one gets cut off after few min of big WvWvW fight :[