Guild Wars 2

me i add my self now to dis list yes. my sanity= kitteny my ears= is bleeding ankittenep hearing whoo woo whoo whoo whoo pls fix this problem before my sanity reaches dead state

Jason King.2647:

Thanks for the reports, everyone! This is an issue we’ve been tracking for a while now, and I’ve heard we may have a fix for it in the next few days. If you continue seeing it, please let us know.

2 months ago

Maybe he meant few months?

I’ve got the sound issue to but dealing with it ok… it’s fairly infrequent for me. Besides… plenty of other bugs to b**ch about

Happy squealing, popping, hissing, and or crackling

SKiN.

Adding my name to this bug list. I get it infrequently enough to not trace it to a particular thing, but frequently enough to be annoying (since I have to shut the game down to avoid crashing my computer), especially since it always tends to happen when doing WvW when the queue is long.

Here’s hoping for an eventual fix. If you need any stats from my computer to help track this down, please let me know.

I am also getting this sound bug, however what is worse is that once it start I have to change the sound output in game options or the client will crash itself. Ofcourse since I only have a headset to get sound from it means I have to play without sound which is really boring.

Getting this annoying sound bug as well. Happens mostly during major events, mostly Jormag (pve), WvW not so much but 5 man dungeons as well mostly during big hussles during the fight. Plz fix ??

ok here is a way for this bug not to crash your game, its simple just add the additional parameter nosound to your shortcut. i know the game is boring as hell with no sound but atleast you wont crash in WvW or whatever. also thats what music is for :P

1. right click your GW2 shortcut and click properties
2. in the target field at the end add “-nosound” without the quotes for example:-
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -nosound
3. click apply then ok
4. put some tunes on and play the game

i would rather not do this and actually hear the in game sounds etc but because of the crashing and being a commander in WvW i feel like i do not have a choice.

i am sure its down to the client playing way too meny sounds at once. imo i dont need to hear 100 sounds playing at once, maybe limit it to ~20.

this is most definetly a client issue coz i have tested 5 different sound cards. 6 if you include onboard, ranging from £15 to £1000 sound cards and same thing happens. professional audio sound cards can handle a kitten ton of sounds playing at once and same thing happens with them.

the quality slider does not work, i have tried and tested everything. but stopping the game from crashing, what i have explained will stop that and will stop that freaking sound

Issue still occurs, I have a Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI card. Large amounts of players + skype makes for a 100% reproduction rate.

Just started happening to me today. Three times in a row and I shut down the client for the night. I’ll try the workaround and see if that works.

And darn, that “WooWoo” is LOUD – my ears are still ringing!

3 months and still not fixed.

Goodjob arenanet.

Hey everyone,

since the latest WvW build/2 days ago, my GW2 freezes randomly and my mic goes hot and I can hear this humming sound constantly, until I force close GW2. Sometimes it’s just the humming, sometimes just a GW2 freeze.

Some of my guildies have been experiencing the same thing, especially the sound bug.

Hope someone can shed some light.

I’ve been sending error reports to ANET.

I’ve been having a similar issue that I never had before. While i’m playing all sound just stops, and it plays a humming/beep slowly until eventually the game crashes. ; ;. Sometimes it never happens, other times it can happen 3 times in an hour > <.

Its 3 months old bug,does arenanet plan to fix it ?It occurs to me at every(without exceptions) large mob or dragon fight.

Also have this same problem in wvw. It still has not been fixed, sent a email to tech support and hopefully they have a work around for this

Just sent a message to support, this problem needs to be FIXED ASAP

Me and my friend have this problem occurring to us as well, when neither one of us have had this ever happen before.
All sound in the game just goes silent while this weird sound keeps playing for a while before the entire game freezes up.
Seems to happen to us mostly during Claw of Jormag events.
Hope ANET fixes this fast…

Sound something like this? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Annoying-Sound-Bug/first

Post in that thread as well if it’s the same/similar issue.

Someone else might have posted this, but i actually found a fix for the bug!
It used to happen to me in basically every larger fight, and i had to shut down GW2 to fix the problem.
However, this is how i fixed the bug:

1. In the Gw2 options menu i turned down the “Sound Quality” to “Fastest”
2. I turned up the “Mixing Buffer Size” to “Most Stable”

This has fixed the problem for me, and im no longer experiencing the problem. I hope this can help some of you out there, as well as help Anet in isolating the problem!

Its probably the very same bug that has been there since release.. Im suprised it isnt fixed yet. It mostly happens when there are alot of things going on, like a wvw zerg for example.. or in lions arch/lost shores during the karka event/halloween.

Hello,
The game is pretty stable for me most of the time.
Lately I have been playing a lot of WvW and I have encountered weird game crashes.
One in a while while I’m playing WvW the sound of the game goes nuts (“beeeep”) and a few seconds later, the game crashes (either back to windows or freeze).
I couldn’t find this precise issue (with the “beeep”) so I created a new thread.

Details :

• only encountered in WvW
• happens about once every hour
• happens regardless I’m in a group or not
• happens regardless in a big fight or not
• sound bug and crash differ slightly from time to time

Hope this helps.

KrisHQ.4719:

Someone else might have posted this, but i actually found a fix for the bug!
It used to happen to me in basically every larger fight, and i had to shut down GW2 to fix the problem.
However, this is how i fixed the bug:

1. In the Gw2 options menu i turned down the “Sound Quality” to “Fastest”
2. I turned up the “Mixing Buffer Size” to “Most Stable”

This has fixed the problem for me, and im no longer experiencing the problem. I hope this can help some of you out there, as well as help Anet in isolating the problem!

Did not work for me. As soon as I tried to touch that slider, the game crashed completely.

It didnt work for me either, I tried changing the mixing buffer, or well actually I had it at max already. Changing the sound quality did nothing either.

Okay, missed this thread. Will close mine. This just started happening to me after the patch. The kitten WOO WOO noise. I will try running the game with no audio. There really isn’t a fix to this after all this time tho? Good god.

Started to happen to me on the weekend and just starts up on larger events, which is usually followed by a game crash.
As of today its started up again in Lions Arch

Tried the sliders didn’t work for me, any chance we can get an ETA on the fix?

I used to get it all the time, until I turned sound quality down then it stopped for over a month. As of the 12/3 update I am once again getting it, regardless of sound setting.

Every large battle in both WvW and PvE areas.

Had it twice, it’s very annoying cuz I had in in Arah Story and Fractals, so I simpy couldn’t restart the game in the middle of the dungeon.

KrisHQ.4719:

Someone else might have posted this, but i actually found a fix for the bug!
It used to happen to me in basically every larger fight, and i had to shut down GW2 to fix the problem.
However, this is how i fixed the bug:

1. In the Gw2 options menu i turned down the “Sound Quality” to “Fastest”
2. I turned up the “Mixing Buffer Size” to “Most Stable”

This has fixed the problem for me, and im no longer experiencing the problem. I hope this can help some of you out there, as well as help Anet in isolating the problem!

Just changing the quality slider all the way to “fastest” has fixed the issue for myself and some guildmates. Hopefully there’s a full fix soon so I can get my sounds back without having to worry about air raids.

edit: Best part of this bug is that it still happens even if you disable in game sound.

I haven’t been in WvW for quite long time ago but this happened to me last night for the first time. Changing the zone, or going back to PvE doesn’t change this. Only game restart. Next time I will try Stonesolid.2706 tips.

Hello.
It started to do that to me when I installed a Creative Recon3D (never done with integrated audio) and only when there are a lot of characters (40 -50 )
Hope it helps

I’m having it as well. I notice it at Jormag every time. Just now at Shatterer also. Not experienced this bug in WvW.

The sound issue that causes the siren like noise has been more frequent since the last update. I’ve had had this error occur rarely in the past but now I get it every time I play wvw.

I know you are “aware of the issue” but it doesn’t make it any less annoying like the million other bugs you’ve not fixed but are “aware of”.

Regards

Mr.Grumpypants

Ok I’m getting the same thing tonight for the first time .. I googled to see if I could find a solution, but all I found was a guy on youtube who documented it .. this is what it sounds like:

Looks like we’re not alone either. It appears to happen, for me at least, during WvW zergs with a lot of players, but I also had it happen on WvW map when I used a WP. So not sure it’s population-driven.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Note: I’ve updated the latest RealTek drivers and didn’t fix it .. if anyone could recommend a fix, I’d be grateful.

OK any chance of getting this fixed soon? Every time there’s more than 30 players in a WvW area, the bonging starts and seconds later I crash. It’s getting frustrating. Can’t contribute to WvW at all.

Will log back on with the -log extension and post here .. should be crashing/bonging again soon.

I had this occur only when i played WvW and there was a large battle happening. However after the last update I had it happen during the Claw of Jormag fight (last night) right when he was at 10% health. The game never crashes until this sound occurs, so of course right afterwards the game crashed and all that time spent was wasted (as I didn’t get any credit for it.) Please fix this…

OH! found a solution .. seems to work (crosses fingers) … googled and found someone suggest you reset your sound to defaults, then lower it to speed rather than quality. I was just in a 60 WvW fight and didn’t crash! HOORAY!

The sound bug is a nuisance, yes (I just turn the game sound down). The ‘crash 4 out of 5 times within 30 seconds of encountering the sound bug’ is rather another matter, especially when WvW has a queue going. Granted, I’ve not run into the bug for a while (been out of WvW, but had it happen last week in a Temple of Balth run), but if its still happening, I’m discouraged from doing anything zergish.

Happening to me again now – and game crashes in large zergs.
If it helps I’m in Mumble, don’t know if that’s the issue. Also my mic goes hot.

Any fix on the horizon?

Jayne.9251:

Ok I’m getting the same thing tonight for the first time .. I googled to see if I could find a solution, but all I found was a guy on youtube who documented it .. this is what it sounds like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-fk_ZyWHA

Looks like we’re not alone either. It appears to happen, for me at least, during WvW zergs with a lot of players, but I also had it happen on WvW map when I used a WP. So not sure it’s population-driven.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Note: I’ve updated the latest RealTek drivers and didn’t fix it .. if anyone could recommend a fix, I’d be grateful.

Saw this comment from someone on the youtube video, so giving it a try :

Peg S:
Just a heads up for anyone else googling and trying to find a solution to this .. found an article where they suggested you reset your audio files to default GW2 settings, then lower the frequency? to speed vs quality …. was just in a 60 man WvW and didn’t crash .. so maybe this solution will help others too! Cheers!

just had that happen tonight doing wvw.

i get this bug then the game crash about few min after this

Mine started about 2 weeks ago, but constantly happens now :\ Totes annoying.

More confirmation that the adjusting sound fixes the bug:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/whurrr-whurrr-whurrr-beeping-sound

I have not had this issue before, but since the latest patch I started to have it.

However the ringing in my ears it causes have led me to become -very- nauseous and has led me to vomit at times when getting up from the computer aside from being -very- dizzy.

I usually play with the sound off and I still get this despite not listening to any in-game sound or music.

This bug also causes prolonged annoying ringing in my ears that last for hours on end and does cause the room to spin hours after I’ve relogged from the game to fix it.

Could the exact cause of this be known? I usually get it in WvWvW after the zerg I’m in connects with another zerg and the game freezes for a few moments before catching up with itself and causing this annoying, health problematic siren.

Edit: I have my sliders at:

Sound Quality: Fastest

Music Interval: Shorter

Mixing Buffer Size: Most Stable (all the way to that opposite bar)

Styg, try hitting “restore defaults” on your sound and see if that works .. having sound quality all the way down to fastest seems to have same effect as if you had it at quality.

I also deleted my local.dat file (Documents>GW2 folder) and that seems to have helped as well. I’m crashing less too.

For me personally this issue is happening only in WvWvW however at first I thought it was only during fights with a large number of people involved. Unfortunately recently I began experiencing the bug in 1 vs 1 fights which ultimately means I have to either restart the game or continue playing for hours without sound.

Has now happened in WvW, Claw of Jormag and in Fractals. Poking around in the game’s sound options does nothing, and sometimes even crashes the game completely.

StygSec.7163:

I have not had this issue before, but since the latest patch I started to have it.

I’ve only just started having this issue and it’s always during the final phase of Breaking the Claw of Jormag event. Of the five times I’ve been affected by it, three times required that I kill the GW2 client via task manager.

I’ll try the above suggested fix/work around with my fingers crossed. Thanks!

Worst thing I do not play with sounds on and still get this……..More often than not it happens when sPvP. Get it at other random times as well.

My issue with this just started on Saturday. First time was in Fractals and I had to turn sound off as we did 2 fractal sets in a row.

2nd time happened today at the end of the Tequatl Dragon fight.

Just reporting back that resetting sound settings to defaults, then sliding slider to “stable” has worked in WvW for me. Had a 60 plus WvW battle tonight and didn’t crash and no annoying sound bug. WAHOO!

I’ve never expericened this bug until last night. It was very annoying, you can still play game but the voice is really awfull :P