PC: Audio Glitches making game uplayable
Hey folks, Let me explain my issue and the steps I have taken to try and correct it. It is somewhat unique I think and it's hard to google due to the nature of it. PC Specs: Windows 8.1 x64 Pr...
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Someone made a youtube video showing the issue so it can be easily understood. Since this is a problem that is hard to convey using worded description, in this video you can actually observe the problem occuring.
Listen to the wind sound, you can still hear music playing even when this sound cuts out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nulsf4u7xZ4&feature=youtu.be
A great many thanks to xRydis for providing this video to demonstrate the issue for everyone to properly understand.
Side note: While this video does demonstrate the problem, it does not demonstrate how severe the problem actually gets in game. You may think to yourselves "Wow thats really not that bad, there are much bigger issues to worry about than this." I assure you, the video demonstrates only the very minimal of effects the problem actually has. It is very rarely that discreet. Normally it is outright game breaking and overwhelming. I also suspect that every time the audio glitches it effects game performance as well thus further adding to the issue. So please do not assume that because that video displays the problem in a subtle manner that it properly represents the issue. It does not, but it does however allow people to see (hear) the problem in which we seek assistance.
My audio problems are even worse than this.
Has anyone figured out a solution?
I recently started having these audio glitches, missing audio during combat for example, along with framerate stutter, noticed it a lot more after I restarted the game, and created a new character. Played for 30+ hours previously without any problems except the occasional cutscene animation skip glitches. Framerate was smooth in hinterlands now its all stuttery in my new game, has something been done like a recent stealth update in an attempt to fix something?
I also have this issue on a PC system:
I have tried most of the tips in this, and xRydis' thread, from swapping headsets to forcing sound-settings and lowering the quality on the game graphics.
It's as if a channel gets redirected somewhere, and then won't come back because for me it started happening at 48 hours in.I have a lot of extra RAM because I do a lot of stuff in Photoshop - and I get the issue on low and medium settings too.
I have not been able to use my headset with DA:I since the issue first occurred - and I have tried with anything from my comfy Asus Vulcan to some other headsets I had lying around - it's as if something got corrupted or seriously memory-leaked somewhere, because it also affects old saves.
Only thing that works for me, is a single jack-plug into my soundcard on an old set of SoundSticks i have.Can't use the newer stuff, then I have all the issues back, including not being able to hear my inquisitor's voice, and other sound fading/stuttering in and out.
I have also tried deleting temp files and cleaning away old saves out of my Saves folder, just to make sure, in addition to playing offline from Origin and not saving to the cloud and loading "proper", not autosaves.
As this seems to be a cross-platform issue - is there any news on what's happened since it got reported to BioWare? Because they're been kind of quiet, and Thanksgiving in Canada is way before Thanksgiving in the US...Nvidia GeForce 760
Asus Maximus Gene V - Realtek sound-drivers
32 Gb memory
Asus Vulcan Pro headset with SpitFire soundcard dongle (new)
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