Weird one indeed.. Even with cam enabled again, the sound seemingly work.
"One of those weirdnesses" i guess.
Well.. hopefully it will keep like that for some more killing! 🙂
Thx for your help Zorlacc 🙂
It was just to rule out windows making the issue on a happy note its not windows. This may be silly for me to ask but since you have 2 sound cards did you disable on board sound in Bios? I will ask a friend to have a look at your topic as he may have more of a idea what is going on. 😕mileywink:
Yes i did disable the onboard soundcard in the bios. It was mainly for testing in BF4.
What i did was that i uninstalled all drivers++ for the x-fi card, then removed it physically from the pci slot. Then enabled onboard sound in the bios, and installed drivers and tested. Same problem. Reversed this by uninstalling all drivers++ and disabling the onboard sound in bios, and putting back my x-fi card again.
When i tested the USB headset i did have both x-fi + the usb headset tho.
As a minor tidbit, i just had some fun testing today.. What i did was load up BF4 on the "test range" where i can notice the sound bugging. 1st thing happening is the plane that is flying overhead the sound "skips" as it moves around. No distinct pattern in when this is happening, but is more or less just random at times. 2nd thing i can do is load a LMG as support, and keep firing. It will "skip sounds" randomly when i do this.
While i was doing this, i ran in windowed mode, started a 1080p MKV movie (Avatar) using MPC-HC, started another movie using VLC, then started VMWare with a windows 7 host, and started playing a music video on youtube. Also started photoshop CS5 and a couple of other things.. totalling 7.6GB of used memory (of 8GB).
Now.. all other sounds were fine.. movie.. music in VMWare (although i could sometimes hear small "pops" while playing), switching back to BF4, i still had the sound "skipping" :P
Im at a totall loss here as to why this seem to happen for me, and not for anyone else. As ive said before, no other game has this problem, and playing 2 movies at once + running vmware playing a music video from youtube SURELY should produce some sort of horrible experience? Xept for BF4 everything was running 🙂
Well well.. happy hunting, and thx for the help so far 🙂
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Smart testing I like it high five on that one 😕mileyhappy: I did ask my friend and got this back....
If nothing works and his sound cards are fine and everything updated, there is nothing he can do.
This problem is happening to some old systems and even new ones, at not specific points, places and objects in the game.
There is really no way to fix it, if you have tried all the steps you usually take. As this will happen on some parts of the game without warning and will not happen the same every time.
On the good note, DICE is very well aware of this problem and is fixing it.
My system is rather old, so ofc that could mean issues 🙂
Just as a sidenote i tried to move the X-fi card to another pci slot just to rule out possible conflicts, but that did not help.
Thx for the help so far tho 🙂
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True it could be the issue not sure this can help but have you seen this page and try his settings not fully your issue but cant hurt to try.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065670179288920/
