Guild Wars 2

Lately my guildies and I have been noticing a very annoying alarm sound in WvW. The only way to stop it is to force close the game. It’s gotten to the point where I cant even join a WvW without it happening so I just don’t.

Draconerus.9867:

Lately my guildies and I have been noticing a very annoying alarm sound in WvW. The only way to stop it is to force close the game. It’s gotten to the point where I cant even join a WvW without it happening so I just don’t.

I get this A LOT also when I join WvW. It happens out of nowhere and I don’t know why. I have to restart the game to get it to stop as well, it affects my speakers in and out of game.

A bandaid fix, though it just mutes the game anyways: change the audio device, at least you won’t have to quit the game, but then you won’t hear anything, not that there’s in game voice chat.
And its not just WvW, happens I guess with tons of player activity or something.

How to prevent getting the sound bug in the future: Set your audio quality 1 level below max. It will not fix ongoing audio bugs, but after a client restart you will not have it ever again.

Yup, turn down sound quality, haven’t had this bug occur a single time since I did so awhile back.

It happens whenever a huge amount of sounds are being played. Happened the past 2 times I did one of the dragon events where 50 people were shooting spells in PvE, too. Haven’t had it happen since I turned the audio quality down.

i have had this issue for a long time. so i muted my game completely from the mixer. i havent seen a fix for it and since i’ve had this issue for a few weeks now, im assuming a fix isnt coming anytime soon.

Change the sound setting back to default. (Once I changed mine off default it did the stupid alarm thing and was annoying, changed default settings on sound back and it was fixed.)

The only other thing I can suggest to try is changing the sound device in the options, then changing it back to see if that works.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Annoying-Sound-Bug/page/2
Scroll down to see response from dev.

Also on that same thread someone made a suggestion to set your sound quality and latency sliders in the middle, so you don’t get that often the bug sound.