Guild Wars 2

Heya everyone,

I’ve been having a problem lately concercing the Dragon events and big WvW battles.

After a minute or so into the event or WvW zerg my sound dies and I can only hear a weird whooping sound. That goes on for maybe 10 seconds before the entire game freezes and I am not even able to close it off via task manager.

I have the graphic settings on Auto-detect.

My system specs are:
Windows 8
Intel i5 3500k
Nvidia GTX 660 Ti
Installed on Crucial M4 128GB SSD

Anyone else experiencing this problem? And more importantly, does anyone have a fix for this?

Thanks!

A fix, not yet. This isn’t related to your graphics card, its an audio bug. I hear people can mitigate the chances it happens if you turn your audio quality down a notch. It happens because there are so many people around making so many sounds that the system can’t handle so it gives you a whoooing noise. It’s a known issue that has been around since the the game has been released.

Known issue. I dont recall any fix for it. Just restart the game ASAP. I’ve had it happen, though it doesnt crash on me .it just has that sound looping.

Set your audio settings in the game client to defaults(the middle setting). That worked for me.
Interesting that this bug isnt stickied to the top of the forum since I have responded to this same issue tons of time in the last 6 months.

Can confirm that this is still an ongoing issue.
Huge thread on this has been going on essentially since, yet no fix is in sight.

And yes, I can also confirm that lowering your sound quality to the medium setting will greatly reduce the changes of experiencing this bug.

Thanks for the help everyone

I indeed was playing on max quality sound settings. Yesterday I did the Clawmag event and right after I thought it was going to be fine, it crashed..

Anet, can we please get a fix for this?

Gerald.3984:

Thanks for the help everyone

I indeed was playing on max quality sound settings. Yesterday I did the Clawmag event and right after I thought it was going to be fine, it crashed..

Anet, can we please get a fix for this?

I would just keep lowering the audio setting until its at a minimum, then I would hardcore complain that the game is really broken (since there is no minimum specification for sound).

Max quality is for dolby, you should buy a soundcard or turn your system settings to low or medium quality.

Push sliders that work with your system, dont max something you dont have.