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EA_Nils
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11 years ago

Re: Major audio problems

Not aware of this card.

Do you have the latest audio driver for your sound card?

Other then that, any chance that you can try adjusting the audio settings for your card within Windows? If you currently have it set to 5.1 try change it to other settings to see whether you still experience the loud static that way.

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  • I have the latest drivers for the card yes; I play dozens of games and do not have this issue with any other game, this only occurs with dragon age inquisition. I have a 5.1 speaker setup... I shouldn't have to disable 3 of my speakers plus sub woofer in order to have working audio.

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    EA_Nils
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    11 years ago
    I understand that this isn't the solution, its rather seeing whether there is a workaround so we can get a better understanding where the issue might be.
  • Changin from 5.1, to 4 speakers and 2 speakers did not fix the problem.  The sound will be isolated to one speaker at a time usually... Usually I'll hear it out ot the front left or right speaker... it doesn't occur in all speakers at once... But it is very loud... sounds like a static bomb and is occuring every 10-20 seconds of gameplay... It does not occur during cut scenes.... but is frequently happening while I'm moving around in the intro tutorial area.

  • So I guess I should request a refund since no one has any idea why this is happening and not likely to provide me with any solutions?

  • Found the solution.

    I realized I had an on board audio card, so I tried to utilize that instead... encountered the same problem so I figured it must be something to do with the mother board... and low and behold... apparently with high overclocking my motherboard can create some audio distortion... I have been overclocking for years and occassional heard a crack or pop in the audio but it wasn't overly common... For some reason is came full bore with Dragon Age Inqusition... perhaps something to do with the number of audio channels being used at the same time?  Anyway, I changed the overclock settings on my board and fixed the issue.