Guild Wars 2

Time to try and explain this bug if that’s what it actually is.

Ok so I will randomly get these loud pops and it echoes throughout the game and it just doesn’t sound like it should be natively coming from GW2. At times it will be a loud pop and at other times it will be hardly audible. It happens underwater or above water. It happens randomly and at any time during gameplay.

I recorded the sound it makes and uploaded to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkavVdhdPeo&feature=plcp

It occurs between 8 and 9 seconds. I took the picture from audacity and put it in the video so you can notice the pop in the audio map or whatever that thing is called.

In the days to come I will try to get some better recordings of this popping sound.

Right!
What is this sound?!?!
First I thought, it came from some other window, maybe some internetbrowser…. I closed it all. After some time I heard it again. It was from GW2. And my ingame music is nearly turned off, so its very loud and annoying.

It happens randomly, everywhere.

Sometimes it scares me sooooo much! It sounds so dramatic…

Other player / npc shooting with something?

This is happening here to. Random intervals. Sometimes in a row. Sometimes really loud. Have volume turned off to listen to other stuff most times too so volume controls are not effecting this. Never experienced this in any other game.

First thing to try is to update your audio drivers. It could be something auditory coming from the game and mishandled by your sound devices drivers.

Headset plugged in and left ON? Try muting the mic or unplugging the headset. If the headset mic pics up noise and it gets sent out the speakers, it can result in similar sounds.

The same issue happens to me. I am using a plantronics gamecom usb headset and the amount of popping is ridiculous. I also managed to hear another sound yesterday which was like a siren sound. I had to log out of the game and come back to remove the issue.

It is driving me nuts. I’ve changed the options in the audio section to see if anything would help, but sadly nothing does.

This is still occurring and I’ve had more people comment on my video on youtube so this problem is still happening out there.

This happens with me also. Still haven’t found a way to stop it.

Same, this usually would occur following claw of jormag, and blue screen after 30 seconds. Video card issue maybe? Game not compatible with radeon 7700?

This problem still exists and therefore I am reviving this thread. I have it and I want to know if this bug might also be connected to some game crashes I have been having while in zergs.

This bug has been around since launch, unfortunately. The really weird thing is, now, after a year, I get the sound even when I am not playing GW2. Randomly, in other applications. Never had it before playing GW2, and many, many others experience it, as well. It happens even with all sound turned off in GW2. I hope someday (soon) they figure out what causes it and find a ‘fix’ for it. It would be lovely to be able to play with a headset on, but this ‘sound’ makes using earphones very unpleasant.

I have the same issue since last patch. Like Inculpatus, the popping sound also happens to me outside GW2, but only just after exiting GW2, never in other applications like it is for him/her.

I also hear this noise occasionally. I used to think about it alot at launch, but I’ve become used to it nowadays..

i have same popping issue. and have had the siren bug aswell at a point some months back but it went away. the popping however keeps popping still. very annoying and you can easy geta shock if there is no other sounds around and your just sitting quietly reading something for example. Bump warning! lol why am i getting this when noone from anet repplied yet?

I have been having this issue for months now and it happens only when I’m on GW2. I use a common headphone with onboard sound card, so nothing “special” here. Drivers are up-to-date and the only app that causes it is GW2. What was weird is I even heard it when GW2 was minimized and I had it set to mute sounds when minimized. So it wasn’t an “in-game environment” sound, like a shooting or something. It’s very random and happens either if I’m just standing somewhere selling my stuffs or if I’m in middle of a battle.

Just to add, I have heard that annoying “pop” sound while doing Sanctum Sprint last night…

A long time ago I found someone post a solution that reducing the sound quality slider helps with these issues. I’ve never had the popping sound, but I used to get the blaring siren bug (multiple times per night at daily bosses) and since making the change it hasn’t returned even once.

The existence of a workaround that works for some people is not an excuse to leave this bug unattended to since release. Could we get an official update on this, even if there’s no progress in finding out what the cause is? :P

Been getting the sound popping bugs since day 1 playing GW2.

The strange thing is that I play gw2 with the GW2 master sound slider way down, but the popping noises seem to override the master sound setting and play at full system volume.

Very annoying, and as usual, no word from arenanet!

ExTribble.7108:

The existence of a workaround that works for some people is not an excuse to leave this bug unattended to since release. Could we get an official update on this, even if there’s no progress in finding out what the cause is? :P

Nothing else to say more than I completely agree.

Except the ‘workaround’ does nothing for the ‘popping sound’ bug. I know, I moved mine when it was first suggested long ago. What’s worse is that this bug migrated from GW2 to other applications after a period of time. I wish they could find what causes it, and fix it. =(

I set the sound quality slider to Fastest, and still getting popping noises.

Even when gw2 is in the background, with “mute when in background”

This bug overrides all sound setting in the game!

I’d really like to hear someone from the audio department explain to us what this is, and if they can fix it.

Still hearing this
Ridiculous that this hasnt been fixed yet

This sound problem has been in the game since launch, and it still isn’t fixed.

lol, I thought I was just hearing things, guess not.

I’ve been hearing them as well, though the ones I hear are way louder than that one recorded, it can be very annoying and when you arent expecting is give you a little shock :P

Seeing this topic at the top of the page again, I’ll just add my voice to the growing list of dissent:

• Since day one.
• Always at highest volume.
• Anywhere in the game world (PvE, WvW and PvP).
• Can be busy with anything (events, crafting, semi-afk).

this drives me crazy lol ….. and i don’t like to have up my volume because i feel like it might mess up my speakers .
lol i though i was the only one this happened to
lol omaris i know why u mean if i have up my volume lol it can make u jump a lol

geez, i thought the popping sound was a problem with my speakers, cuz they’re getting old…

o.O