Guild Wars 2

Ever since the Karka Queen arrived I’ve had glitchy sound, not sound lag as some people call it in-game.

The problem is where the sound effects are there one minute, something happens (I’m yet to identify whatever causes it) and I no longer hear ANY sound effects. I’m lucky to hear music on occasion, but this is very sporadic.

It doesn’t appear to be random, unlike the annoying tones heard during the Claw of Jormag fight or in WvW sometimes. This happens every time the queen comes out. It never happened during the times when the instigators spawned either.

I’m using Realtek onboard HD sound. Has anyone else found a similar issue on Southsun?

be thankful that the queen is actually spawning on your server, some servers (like mine) it bugs a lot and is not possible to complete the pre event.

but it sounds like (pun intended) it’s related to the issue people have with sound lagging, which is caused by culling, purposely programmed to reduce loading times and increase FPS.

sadly, I don’t see a possible solution to this until they fix the culling issues.

I guess the only way to confirm is if you are fighting the queen with very few other players around and see if it still happens or not.

Nah, on my server (SoS) it’s not really possible to take on the queen with less than the average. But she does spawn, and from then on the sound is diminished beyond belief, and not just at Southsun as I just found out. It doesn’t matter where I go after that, the music is only able to be heard, no other sound effects, UI noises, anything… not until I quit the client and restart.

it could be a specific sound effect is trying to load but did not install/download properly, causing the sound to cut out.

you may want to try deleting and re-installing the game.

Myself and others I know are having this sound issue as well. Various sound effects will disappear, such as the sound of combat, and I will hear ambient sounds only, other times the effect is delayed, or as OP said, complete silence. I don’t play with any of the games music on, and this issue only arose since the latest patch.

I don’t think Vashoom’s advice is helpful tbh, as this isn’t specific to the OP.