Guild Wars 2

Hi, I have a problem in GW2 where my sound effects will sometimes stop playing. At random times, I will stop hearing any sounds from my characters voice and attacks etc, but I can still hear the music. I have already tried changing the sound quality. Re-logging usually fixes it. How do I stop this?

I noticed it happens often after I talk to Scouts, but that might just be coincidence.

Yeah, this is a known bug https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Sounds-dissapear-after-talking-to-scouts/first#post2863522 I hope it will be fixed soon.

I’m having the same issue too – mainly with combat sounds. I can hear some other sound effects around me but my attacks are completely silent!

@ SamSparta m8 looks like we’re having the exact same problem. When I talk to a scout, and when he’s done talking and the map disappears, the game has no sound whatsoever. Relogging fixes it. But it’s pointless because when I log back in it usually takes about a minute for sound effects to start randomly vanishing. the music seems to load fastest, and sometimes I hear music, but don’t hear footsteps, ambience sounds, attack sounds… nothing. It’s really frustrating as I have to wait for about a minute, sometimes waaay longer, just standing there until the sound appears again.

What sound effects??? They no longer (randomly, btw) exist———ESPECIALLY underwater!!——-where EVERYTHING, including the MUZAK, becomes MIME-blowingly quiet!!

I have the same porblem. You can get the sound back by teleporting…

Same problem here too :/ it happens when I talk to scouts and just randomly.

I am having the same issue, it seems to crop up whenever I finish a cutscene, and relogging does fix it. So I guess the game needs to reload. I haven’t tried using a waypoint yet as someone else suggested.

Here’s hoping ANet fixes it soon!

I have the same problem. Mostly it will help me when I die.

So I was doing Shadow Behemoth and noticed this again and a couple other people asked about it too. So I finally got around to checking audio settings.

Currently the relevant settings is sound quality is in the middle and mixing buffer size is set to lowest latency. My guess is the mixing buffer which I’ll let tota answer (which is also how I interpret the setting):

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/Mixing-buffer-size

So I moved the mixing buffer one spot over so now it’s at 25%. It would make sense since I only notice it when there are a lot of people around so my system is pretty busy. Haven’t noticed any issues post update but I also only made it 10 minutes ago Perhaps that helps someone though.