Crackling sound making it unplayable
Title screen, Varric doing his monologue and character creation all play sound with no problem but the second I got to the first cutscene with my rook and then into Mintrathous the sound is constantl...
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Not to defend the fact that this is still an issue or that we haven't had any communication about it. But it's normal to have a holiday code freeze, so I'm not surprised that we haven't had any patch. If we don't have an update and/or patch in the next couple of weeks, then I'd be side-eyeing them. Source: work in tech.
This post started 3 months ago - but I respect the religious beliefs of EA - if they have been fasting and then celebrated orthodox christmas this is when they start. Hopefully you are right, and that overworked programmers just need some time off to be able to dig into this problem now - but there are some good programmers in India and China that EA could consider hiring if that is the issue.
To me it looks like the issue is hardware-related and that the game runs poorly on older hardware so that making a patch is not at all easy - and the minimum requirements really should be risen to just above my system.
I see people try to blame older hardware a lot, and that's simply not the case. The game runs with fewer issues on my i7 2070 than it does on my AMD 7800x3d 4070 ti super. Also runs with fewer issues on a friend's AMD 7600X 4070 super (no ti). Downgrading my PC to an old HDD instead of an SSD eliminates the audio problem (but causes severe latency in texture and model loading). Like yeah, there's obviously a complicated problem, but it isn't because people are trying to play on PCs that can't handle the game.
Its 100% a compatibility with "older hardware" and my guess is specifically 10th generation intel cpus (and possibly other specific frameworks from AMD, other intel generations, and maybe even some hdds), because as ive pulled peoples posts a lot of them are coming from that generation of intel. So does that mean all old hardware will have issues, no it doesnt, but dont patronize the forum when we know its clearly a hardware compatibility issue.
Dude, I didn't say it isn't a hardware issue, I said it isn't an older hardware issue specifically, because plenty of very old hardware works better than newer hardware. The person I replied to explicitly said that they thought it was an "older hardware" issue and that EA needed to raise the minimum requirements for the game, which wouldn't actually address the problem, but go off I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
