Guild Wars 2

Have just finished slaying the Claw of Jormag, but just before he died I encountered a weird audio effect. All of the in-game sounds were nullified by a single pulsing ‘wwuuuuuuww’ sound. The pulse repeats itself after about 1.5secs and the effect is that it fades in and out.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? I double-checked the PC speakers or the on-board sound wasn’t at fault, and winamp still plays tunes nicely.

I don’t know if anyone else has posted about this before as I didn’t do a search before getting this topic out there.

Check out my post titled Siren Sounds. You are not alone with your issues.

There are a few threads in the tech support forum on this issue, but the common temporary fix seems to be to set audio quality down a notch from highest.

Had the same problem on Claw of Jormag on an Asus Xonar DX until I did this, no more issues.

It’s interesting because this doesn’t sound like a siren, which implies that the tone is going up and down. This is just one tone with a pulsing volume increase/decrease. I did hear someone speculate that it could be to do with sound overload, ie. processing too much sound at once, but that’s just a guess.

yah ive been getting it too since the last patch, never got it before