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VValterCronkite
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2 years ago

Audio becomes static noises

This issue started within the last week for me.

While in the game, randomly the audio will become all static, even when i alt tab out, it makes all my desktop and everything into static noise and i need to unplug my speaker and replug it in it to fix it.

This only happens in BF2042 and it's happened while i'm in menus, while playing in a game and even when i alt tab out of the game. this will happen.

I uninstalled EA Anti Cheat and reinstalled it and it seems to have improved it, reducing it only occurring when i alt tab out of BF2042, but i don't know why or how this started happening to begin with.

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  • @VValterCronkite 

    In the task manager, find your audio driver (maybe audio control panel), right-click on it, select "go to details", then set the priority for audio drivers to "above normal". The BF2042 game is very CPU-intensive, if the CPU is fully loaded, i.e. ~100%, it is very possible that all processes will "freeze" for a while.

    By the word "freezing" I mean a situation in which less important processes wait until more important processes are recalculated by the processor, and only when processes with higher priority are recalculated, the CPU deals with other tasks.

    Changing the priority for the audio driver will cause it to be given priority, which should fix the audio problem as the processor will process the voice first, followed by other processes.

    By changing the priority for the audio driver to "above normal", I practically eliminated the sound error 100%. It happens once in 10 times that the sound error occurs, then I restart the computer (clear the buffer) and the problem disappears.

    If you don't have a program to set automatic priority for a given process, you will have to do it manually each time you start Windows.

    GL

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