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First, apologies for the link spam below! Second, thank you all so much for quickly responding with your motherboards.
I see a lot of these motherboards under the list of MSI Motherboards here.
Some of them have Sonic Radar included and even Nahimic audio. I've seen Nahimic actually result in some sound and performance issues lately with our games. I included some various posts below that showcases how fully uninstalling them have fixed this for PC players.
Would any of you be willing to give that a try to see if we can determine if it's audio related? (Some players have mentioned better performance when they made audio changes within game)
Sonic Studio / Sonic Radar:
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Red-Arrow-in-game/m-p/7388507#M23082
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/Origin-In-Game-Overlay-Not-Working-At-All-Titanfall-2/m-p/6755758#M283840
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/madden-19-no-sounds/m-p/6953913#M68
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/still-no-audio-at-all/m-p/7740121#M19038
Nahimic:
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/No-sound-when-using-windows-high-definition-audio-device-drivers/m-p/5883322/highlight/true#M11668
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/Origin-Games-have-no-sound/td-p/8032033/highlight/true/page/2
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Distorted-Sound-in-MSI-Laptop-Nahimic-3-and-Realtek-driver/td-p/8031515/highlight/true
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/no-sound-with-any-frostbite-engine-games/m-p/7351180/highlight/true#M8259
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-2013/SimCity-hangs-or-won-t-launch-on-Windows-10/m-p/6844830/highlight/true#M126860
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Trouble-opening-the-game/m-p/7264138/highlight/true#M129884
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/CTD-on-Startup/m-p/8049694/highlight/true#M16771
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/No-audio-in-game-Need-help/m-p/7356785/highlight/true#M8538
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/Origin-Client-Freezing/m-p/5639934/highlight/true#M226894
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/No-Sound-in-Origin-Games/m-p/6835396/highlight/true#M286078
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-2013/Origin-Sim-City-5-issues-thank-you/m-p/7367635/highlight/true#M127324
- https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/PC-No-Sound/m-p/7107884/highlight/true#M6756
I didn't have either of these installed. But out of frustration I closed every app/task bar running program I could, disabled AV. That helped some.
Then I set the game to run in windowed mode and I was finally able to play it with no stuttering/lag/audio issues