Guild Wars 2

I run gw2 in windowed mode and do a lot of other stuff like watch videos, listen to music, etc. I started noticing that whenever I have this game running, I get this intermittent crackling/static sound. I know for sure that its gw2 that’s causing this because I don’t have this problem when its not running. Anybody know what could be causing this?

I’ve seen something similar, I have an ASUS Xonar Essence STX sound card and while playing GW2 I’ll sometimes hear a popping noise, don’t get it with anything else.

This doesn’t bother me very much as it’s quite infrequent so I haven’t personally tested steps to resolve it, but have you tried playing with the sliders in the audio settings? There is one along the lines of Stability > Performance… try moving it towards stability.. also try lowering the sound quality bar a bit to see if that helps.

Is it on board sound on your motherboard or do you have a dedicated sound card?
Mobo model? (If onboard)
Soundcard model? (If dedicated)

Latest drivers etc. blah blah yadda yadda.

Yeah, I’ve messed around a bit with the sliders and it was still the same but I guess I’ll play with it some more to see if it makes any differences.

As for the sound, Im pretty sure its onboard but I dont know how to find the motherboard model. Im using an ASUS N53SV laptop and I do have all the latest drivers.