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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I've been hanging around this thread since launch, but suddenly... I have no crackling any more as of this morning. Like, zero.
Now, unless EA/BioWare pulled a sneaky and changed something – I only see Patch 4 released on 4 December – the only change I made was as follows, after last testing it at the end of December and uninstalling again: I added an identical stick of 16 GB memory to my existing 1 x 16 GB in order to take advantage of dual channel mode. That's it. Now it works.
I will return if it starts up again.
The game has worked for me with no issues on a machine with 16GB of RAM, and has crackled for me on a machine with 32GB. So it isn't "just" amount of RAM that's a factor. But I also noticed that I'm not getting the stutter in the intro video as of yesterday-ish, on custom Medium graphics with strand hair, and High texture filtering and LOD. I cranked it back up to Ultra today and still no stutter or lag in the intro video, and none in Varric's intro slide to Minrathous, which previously were significantly affected by higher graphics settings. In gameplay on Ultra, I'm seeing some minor crackle and video lag, but nothing gamebreaking; I'll play on High to help further reduce those issues and see how it goes. But yeah, it seems like maybe something changed without a visible patch... we'll see.
Yes, since launch, ostensibly completely random hardware configurations have problems and others do not, RAM included. I did not (mean to) imply that "just" RAM is the issue. I was merely saying what the last thing I did was before it started working in case it's another piece of the puzzle. Anyway, enjoy.
