I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this, but sometimes the game sound produce a really LOUD popping sound, to the point which hurt real bad my ears. It happens every time I play, but it is totally unpredictable. I would said it occurs every once in a while, average once per 30min. of play or so.
To me it seems like that audio thread responsible for filling the audio buffer is skipping a block or something. It really sounds like the buffer get either empty, or filled with garbage for a very narrow time span, producing this extremely annoying loud popping sound.
That makes me believe, if I configured the audio buffer size (from the audio settings menu of the game) that would go away, but it haven’t worked. It didn’t change anything.
This is the only game to ever have this issue, so I am 100% confident it is not an hardware issue. This problem has been there ever since beta.
My audio card: SoundBlaster X-Fi
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