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Cybmax
11 years ago
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Sound issues - "clipping"

Posted this on the regular forums, but got no feedback, so going an attempt here:

I have found and read a gazillion threads about this.. however none really recent from what i gather. i KNOW i had this problem a few patches back, but havent really been playing much BF4 during summer.. but alas, we had a week of pissing rain here, and fired up BF4 again 🙂

Now.. There is a couple of videos out on youtube that have this problem and they are mostly from around 9 months ago. Solution then is to edit PROFSAVE_profile and change the line with GstAudio.AudioQuality from 0 to 4.

I have ofc. tried this to no avail ☹️

If i delete the file BF4 autogenerates it again, and it sets the GstAudio.AudioQuality to 1 by default.

I have tried the following to "fix" the sound clipping/disappearing:

Uninstall and disable my onboard VIA HD audio card and swapping to my old Creative X-Fi card. - Same problem
Editing the PROFSAVE_profile file with various attempts at GstAudio.AudioQuality from 0 to 4, and GstAudio.SoundSystemSize from 20 -> 100 of various values found on the web - no help there
Tried setting different audio ingame from headphones and stereo to Home Cinema and surround. - No fix
Tested different sound card tweaks both with the VIA HD drivers when i used those, and now with the creative drivers (also tested a "fan based" driver that ppl say are better than creative drivers - PAX) - No help in that

I have asked around on various servers if anyone have any sound problems, but noone seem to be having issues..

Now i ask here: Does ANYONE have sound glitches/sound "clipping"/disappearing while they play as of 16. aug. 2014?

C

PS. I use a 5.1 sound system, and NOT headphones. It is a "true" 5.1 system with 5 satellite speakers and a bass (and no "emulating stereo" thingy).

Update: 18/8-14
Noone experience ANY sound problems? Meaning it HAS to be my system thats totally borked..

The funny part is that i downgraded my ATI drivers back to 13.12.251 as Mantle doesnt work that well with my 270x card anyway, and the sound bugging is not that awful atm, but still on the annoying part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQU-X0dDujY [youtube.com] Is a lot like what im experiencing. Also gunfire sounds kinda "cut out" in the middle of the sound.

Like when you are a sniper and hear that "echo" sound after firing a round, but for me 1 out of 10 shots the sound just seem to be "cut" before the whole echo plays. If i play on the test map, i can hear the plane overhead with positional audio and seemingly working good, but the sound stops 2-3 seconds randomly while i hear it..

Its very annoying to sneak around town and hear someone fire a gun at the other side of a wall, for the sound to just disappear and suddenly the footsteps you were listening for are right behind you with a knife in front of it :P

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    Cybmax
    11 years ago

    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 🙂

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    Cybmax
    11 years ago

    Appreciate the effort.. but i use CCleaner regularly. Just to refresh my doings:

    Completely cleaned my computer and installed Windows 8.1 Pro. Using Creative drivers for my X-fi Fatal1ty card, and atm AMD 14.4 WHQL for my Radeon 270x card. (As i said before, i tested this fresh installed with nothing but the windowsupdate drivers in the beginning, and had the same troubles)

    Problem is a bit worse in Windows 8.1 vs. what it was in Windows 7.

    On a positive note, Mantle seems to work a bit better in windows 8.1.. but not there yet for my slacking 270x card. Possibly in the next release tho, but for now it seems a bit better in DirectX. Ive gained some fps i guess, as the gameplay in general seems a bit smoother. Everything set on "Low" on the graphics settings to make sure im not lagging due to gfx stress atleast.

    Have run a ton of latencymon, but no clear culprit there.. Meaning its random .dll's that seem to pop up as possible causes, so id say i cant pinpoint anything exact there.

    Running 2 1080p MKV's + playing mp3 music and youtube videos is even smoother than in Windows 7, and have absolutely no sound problems at all.. even latencymon is not complaining at all when i do that. Fire up BF4 and WHAM.. all hell breaks loose ☹️

    Did some farcry gaming and whatnot without problems.. Thinking about installing Diablo 3 just to see if there is anything there, but was not before.. neither was it any problems in WoW.. The ONLY SINGLE game i have EVER had sound issues in (in this millennium atleast) is Battlefield 4.

    Normal sane conclusion of this would be: The game Battlefield 4 has some bugs in it that i experience.

    Dice insane conclusion: Your hardware is broken.

    I dont know.. Not sure how many ppl come to this forum when they experience problems.. but as i posted before, the issues im having is more or less like the mass problems ppl had with the game after the january patch this year. This WAS fixed in a later patch, but im still having the issues. And from the lack of posts here, it seems im the only one in the world to have ANY problems with this game 🙂

    Some day i will figure it out, and it will most likely be something totally daft like swapping places on the usb keyboard and mouse :P

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    Cybmax
    11 years ago

    Well.. i have the AMD HD audio disabled with absolutely no result (dont use HDMI audio anyway)... But disabling my Logitech webcam mic from device manager seem to have fixed it!!

    Well.. just done a quick TDM round with no sound glitching, which is way better than in a while now, but a bit early to say 100% tho. So far looking very good 🙂

    Will do some more testing, but crossing fingers this aint just some random weirdness 🙂

    C

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    Cybmax
    11 years ago

    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 🙂

  • 2042isNotBF's avatar
    2042isNotBF
    11 years ago

    Anytime happy it is fixed maybe something you tried the last bit fixed it and had to reboot for it to kick in hard to say. I will mark your last post as the solution. If it acts up again you can remove the solution. 😕mileyhappy:

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