Major audio problems
I have an older Rocketfish 5.1 soundcard and I am having frequent loud static explosion sounds occuring every 20-30 seconds while trying to play this game... It is completely unplayable like this; I ...
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Community AdminThe only other idea outside of a driver update is kind of a long shot, but here goes.
Run a Clean Boot in order to ensure that no programs are interfering in the background: http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/
While they shouldn't interfere, there is a slight chance that they do.
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.
