I've been playing a bit of multiplayer on DA:I and its fun.However, I have a problem with the voice chat element of multiplayer.Whenever anyone speaks they sound broken up, staticy, robot-like.I have no problems with any other part of the the games sounds, nor with any other computer game.Is this a known bug? Is there a work around?I've tried changing the Audios "type" (home theater, tv, etc) to no avail.

Check the recording and playback devices. Not sure if it is Dragon Age or what, but since installing the game I have had random changes in what is my recording and playback device. As I also use Skype sometimes and play multiple games in a day, I cannot say for certain that is it, but I have had to tab-out of game and change device settings back to original a couple of times.V/R FawlkonGame On!Please click problem solved and/or XP if this helps!

What you're experiencing, Fawlkon, is called volume attenuation. Skype will often lower the volume on other applications when you join a call, so that you can hear the people in your call over your music, movies, etc.I still have no idea what would cause the problem you're describing. Specific distortion like that is difficult to troubleshoot. I'd still say that as unlikely as it sounds other people's mics are just **bleep** and their 'conversations' is them talking back and forth about how they can't understand each other(or maybe just background noise).If you'd like, you can add me on Origin and we can join an MP game. I know for a fact my mic works fine, as I use it everyday. It could at least help eliminate the 'everyone's mic sucks' theory.

My only problem with the voice chat so far is that it's mandatory and there doesn't even seem to be a volume slider for it.Other than that, I imagine if sound is coming through broken up it's because the person's mic is crappy or your volume's too high. I haven't really experienced any choppiness.

Thanks for the reply.I'd intialy assumed a low end mic too, but from the little I could understand people seemed to be having conversations with no issue - it also seems unlikely that EVERYONE that I encounter has a poor mic.As for the sound, I play with a Corsair Vengence 1500 head set at about 16% volume (on PC, I completely failed to mention that!). So, it seems unlikely that the distortion is a result of over-doing the volume. Also, it's ONLY the voice stuff that I'm having any problems with, the rest of the game sounds good even when things get a little hectic.

I've had a look at the playback and recording devices, as you suggested, but I'm not realy finding anything that would account for the problem I'm having.It does seem like the game is doing somthing strange when I am playing, however.My headset has a hardware mute button which, as I cant understand anyone else's chat, I use to mute myself when playing (voice activation only FTW).Whenever I transition (into playing and from playing into a lobby) the game un-mutes my mic. I know this as when my mic is muted it turns from blue to red and visa versa.I'm not sure if its related to the garbled/choppy multiplayer voice chat, but it's definately strange 😕mileyfrustrated:

Is anybody else encountering problems with voice chat in multiplayer?

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livingt
11 years ago
Right, I've had a go at trying to fix the potential problem with nvidia audio drivers.
I'm afraid i havent had much joy. I tried to uninstall the audio drivers but couldnt find them to do so.
I then had a look at the device manager, thinking that i would disable the audio driver associated with my graphics card - i managed to find said drivers only to find they were *already* disabled.
I then tried doing a clean install of my graphics drivers - my thought process was that if the clean install removed everything and i did not choose to install the audio drivers all would be well. It turns out that either the nvidia drivers no longer bundle audio drivers with graphics drivers (there was no option to choose audio drivers as an optional extra, as there was before), or audio drivers are bundled in with graphics card drivers and there is no way to choose to not install them.
Either way, I've had no joy with anything I've tried. Am I missing somthing? Or am I being screwed by Nvidia's change in practice?
Any help would be brilliant. I'm getting quite PO'ed about this now, especialy as I am suddenly getting CTDs in multiplayer too.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Have you removed the Nvidia drivers? Disabling them didn't do the job for me. It only worked after removing them entirely.
livingt
11 years ago
Ok, a couple of updates here.
I've tested since the patch and unfortunately the issue still exsists, so no hope of an easy fix there.
@Caustic_Agent wrote:
Have you removed the Nvidia drivers? Disabling them didn't do the job for me. It only worked after removing them entirely.
Unfortunately, as I said in my other post, I can't seem to remove the audio drivers.
It used to be that the audio drivers were installed as a seperate entity from the graphics drivers, etc, and so could be removed as a seperate thing.
As it is now, they are not showing up in my Control Panel/Programs and Features. All I am able to see (and uninstall) is
NVIDIA Geforce Experience,
NVIDIA Graphics Driver 344.75
and
NVIDIA PhysX System Software 9.14.0702

Which means I cannot uninstall the audio drivers. At least, not without uninstalling the graphics drivers - which is not an option, I'm afriad.
I tried a clean install (which removes EVERYTHING before installing), hoping that the advanced settings would allow me to choose not to install the audio drivers. Alas, it was not so.
H3llF1R3
11 years ago
I've got this problem too. Also on Vista 64. Anybody had any luck getting this fixed?
sonevar
Seasoned Rookie
11 years ago
I posted this Solution in another Thread on Answers HQ but I'm reposting it here for anyone who hasn't seen/can't find the other thread
After Weeks of searching, trouble shooting, restores and driving my Multiplayer Buddy crazy with attempts to be heard/hear this is what I came up with:
-- Microphone: I turned my Input Level and Boost DOWN... yes I know this seems counterproductive but apparently if the mic boost is set too high, it overwhelms the sound channel
-- Speakers not hearing Player Voice: Somehow (I do not understand how since I did not mess with the files in question until I attempted to fix them) my ProfileOptions_profile file was changed from the settings it had a month prior.
Solution: I copied the ProfileOptions_profile file from another machine that my DAI was installed on and replaced the Corrupted?? one
The file can be found in Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save
Although PLEASE NOTE I used a text Editor Program (Notepad++) to edit the Resolution and monitor refresh values to match my PC so as not to freak out my monitor upon loading DAI
For 1920x1080 60Hz
Line 25: "GstRender.FullscreenRefreshRate 60.000000" (without Line 25: or quotes)
Line 32: "GstRender.ResolutionHeight 1080" (without Line 32: or quotes)
Line 34: "GstRender.ResolutionWidth 1920" (without Line 34: or quotes)
Or you could simply adjust these settings in the options on the Machine that does work to match a Res/Ref the malfunctioning Machine can handle before copying the "clean" ProfileOptions_Profile
I hope this helps

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