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Quintinkt
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2 years ago
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Madden 24 crashes my audio drivers every 3 minutes in franchise mode.

Product: Madden NFL 24
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. Epic - PC
What is the AMD or Nvidia Model Number of your graphics card? NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Enter RAM memory size in GB Corsair Vengence DDR 4 64GB 3200MHz Model Number: CMW32GX4M2C3200C16
Date/time issue occurred 11/7/2023
What type of issue do you have? Audio Problems
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Is your Franchise league a Cloud save or Offline save? Offline
What is your Franchise League Name? N/A
Summarize your bug Madden 24 crashes my audio drivers every 3 minutes. I can usually get into a game or two but then in the middle of the match the audio drivers crash and then my PC drivers have crackle noises up until I restart my PC. This issue ONLY occurs when I launch madden 24 and have occurred prior to me playing this game. (I have not had any audio issues with the previous year of the game, Madden 23,22,21,20 etc.)
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I've been able to get this to occur 100% of the time when I try to play madden 24
What happens when the bug occurs? My audio drivers will crash. After they automatically restart the sound cracks and pops as if they have been de-synced
What do you expect to see? The game audio to NOT crash my drivers every three minutes and work as intended.

Troubleshooting steps: 

1.) Confirmed all of my audio drivers are installed and up to date.

2.) I've run "SFC /scannow" to confirm my OS isn't corrupted, I also ran "/Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth"

3.) Restart my PC.(Which would fix my audio cracking and popping up until I start a match in madden.

3.) I've contacted IT for my audio interface and they confirmed that everything on their end is working and it's an issue with the game itself.

3.) Then I reached out to EA IT and the tech gave me a troubleshooting tip to turn off all of my services and disable all of my startup apps...which ended up breaking a few things on my computer.

4.) Second EA IT tech told me to create a forum post.

3 Replies

  • EA_Illium's avatar
    EA_Illium
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    2 years ago

    HI @quintinkt 

    When you have a moment, can we try going through the following and check if this issue continues?

    Cheers, 

  • Quintinkt's avatar
    Quintinkt
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 years ago

    So after troubleshooting on my own, I believe I've found the core issue. EA Anti Cheat does not like interacting with my Focusrite Solo Audio Interface. I was able to figure this out via the following methods.

    • Event Viewer: Each time I launch Madden 24 my application Windows log pops with the error "EAAntiCheatService Failed to obtain Origin directory" This made me do a repair & re-install of EA anti-cheat without a resolution. (I'm unable to attach .evtx event log files due to the website's policy)
    • LatencyMon: I then ran LatencyMon to see which specific application is causing this issue to prove this theory. Since this issue only occurs when I am playing Madden 24 I was able to replicate it by simply launching the game. While this was happening I was recording logs from LatencyMon which threw out an error pointing to hard faults on "Madden24.exe" (Log attached)
    • Research: I did some digging around on how EA Anti-cheat works, and from what I read it runs kernel level which could easily cause issues with the sample rate of the audio interfaces.

    I hope this finds the right personnel because I've been having this issue since I first bought the game and have not found a full-proof resolution on my own. I have encountered anti-cheat shutting down my game because it detected I was running something...So maybe a hardware whitelist needs to be made for the Focusrite?

  • I’ve been having the same issue with my Focusrite Solo Audio Interface, have you found a fix for this yet?

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