Good news:
@narion_k wrote:Unfortunately I don't have any hope that DICE will fix this bug. Why? This bug has been present in all of DICE's games running on the Frostbite engine since Battlefield 3 launched over six years ago, including Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Battlefield 1, Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Battlefront II, and Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. I know because I have played them all and experienced the same issue in each of them (except Star Wars Battlefront, which I only played for 4 hours), even when playing on different platforms. I've also read that it is a common bug in many other Frostbite games such as Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and FIFA 2017. It has not been fixed in any of those games, so I would be rather surprised if they fix it in this one.
Just take a look at this huge EA Answers HQ thread for the same issue in Andromeda, which is currently up to 324 points and 179 replies: loss of sound on mass effect andromedaAccording to posts #148 and #159 in that thread, BioWare has confirmed that this is a known issue with the Frostbite engine.
great info.
I don't recall it happening at all in Battlefront, and I played that just a tad bit more than 4 hours. 😉
On the bright side - I really haven't had it happen for several days now. May be just dumb luck...
@DarthFDG wrote:
great info.
I don't recall it happening at all in Battlefront, and I played that just a tad bit more than 4 hours. 😉
On the bright side - I really haven't had it happen for several days now. May be just dumb luck...
That's part of the trouble with this bug: its presence can be rather sporadic, which likely makes it difficult to find and fix the source. In Battlefield 3, I would estimate that I experienced this bug at least 25 times – sometimes twice within an hour, and sometimes only once within 15 hours. It only happened perhaps once during the more than 35 hours I put into Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. In Battlefront II, it has only happened to me once or twice in my 85 hours of play.
These are just my numbers, though; some people experience it more often, others less. Some people in that Andromeda thread have reported that the bug appears during nearly every single multiplayer match they play.
I am having this same issue, I think it's more likely to happen during Galatic Assault matches, but I'm not sure. It's really frustrating, can you maybe respond and acknowledge this problem, EA?
Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I found this suggestion that I might try: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/No-Sound-in-SW-Battlefront-2-Realtek-HD-Audio-Temp-Solve/td-p/6425513
I'm not sure if the poster meant that the sound cut our or that he didn't have any sound at all, but I might give it a try. Anyone have any other ideas?
I have been having a glitch that seemed similar on Xbox One but got a lot worse today
I am not sure if they could possibly be related. Basically, my sound stopped working in all video games, but still works on Netflix, the menu, and Amazon Prime Video. I've tried playing games without my external harddrive to see if the data is corrupted there and that didn't fix it. I am getting no error messages but Battlefront II does not work at all basically, no sound, no characters visible.
On Halo, I have no sound, and I can play with visible characters and shoot, but it is extremely laggy even when I am offline. I hit 'start' and try to turn the volume off, and it takes 30 seconds for the start menu to load, all the while the screen has darkened a bit and I am stuck doing nothing.
This glitch started around the same time the PC gamers started posting the sound issues (earlier this week).
@ghoti657 wrote:I have been having a glitch that seemed similar on Xbox One but got a lot worse today
I am not sure if they could possibly be related. Basically, my sound stopped working in all video games, but still works on Netflix, the menu, and Amazon Prime Video. I've tried playing games without my external harddrive to see if the data is corrupted there and that didn't fix it. I am getting no error messages but Battlefront II does not work at all basically, no sound, no characters visible.
On Halo, I have no sound, and I can play with visible characters and shoot, but it is extremely laggy even when I am offline. I hit 'start' and try to turn the volume off, and it takes 30 seconds for the start menu to load, all the while the screen has darkened a bit and I am stuck doing nothing.
This glitch started around the same time the PC gamers started posting the sound issues (earlier this week).
Uh this glitch has been in the pc game since beta. Yeah it’s taken them that long to possibly find a solution, maybe......
