Guild Wars 2

I dont know if this has happened to anyone else, but the massive amounts of sounds in WvW actually broke my headphones. No joke, one second they are fine and then when I entered a big battle (50-100 people) my headphones cut in and out after a while. I have had this happen once before (only from this game mind you) but it would go away after restart. This time, however, the headphones are complete trash even after restart.

Are you sure it’s your headphones and not your sound card?

Definitely the headphones. Tried it in other devices with the same sound quality.

have the same problem when I’am in WvW the sound just stop and a pip sound start and never stop till you shut down the game

im just hoping this is something that is going to be looked at or im never using headphones in WvW again. Luckily, the ones Im using right now are still in warranty.

I have the same problem as quantrus; In massive WvW battles my sound goes off and I hear a beeping sound instead. It’s very annoying I have to play with mute on or restart the client which will in turn give me the same problem.

same beeping sound during WvW, and don’t know what triggers that exactly :\

I believe I’m having a similar problem as quantrus. In very large fights in WvW my sound will cut out entirely, replaced by a pulsing whine. The game will eventually crash from it if I don’t restart, but restarting fixes the problem. None of my other sounds are affected.

I’d guess a sound mixing issue since it only occurs in huge fights; onboard Realtek ALC889 chipset for the sound hardware.

This is happening to me too.

It happens to me at either WvWvW or against Dragons. When theres alot of players around and then sound just goes away and it starts beeping like an alarm system so loud and doesnt stop til i close game down

The short term solution is set your audio quality to Low.

I was having the exact same problem and this fixed it for me.

Same issue too, only happens in WvW when attacking large groups of people, then the beeping appears. Otherwise in PvE sound’s alright for me.
Some bug maybe?

This happens to me as well, at least in WvW (if not dungeons, too). Maybe it has something to do with too many sounds playing at the same time and then bugging out or something. Only GW2 is affected when this happens. Shutting down the client will stop the little wailing siren, and restarting it will cause the sound to be fine until a big battle in WvW. Rinse repeat unless I mute.

Same issues here. I’ve had it happen in Orr once, when there was a massive group of people doing an event, so I believe it’s related to having too many sounds playing at the same time as well.

And yes for all the naysayers, it is GW2. I’m almost always speaking with someone on teamspeak, and I can continue to talk to them after it happens.

I’ve also had this happen. The sound is a pulsing ~200Hz tone. I’m also still able to hear non-GW2 sounds while this is playing.

This only occurs near massive amounts of spells.

This happened also to me. The best solution at the moment is to decrease the quality sound of one score to the left, if you have the quality at his best. I didn’t hear it anymore.

This why I enjoy forums, I find out that I’m not the only one with this problem.
I do have the settings maxed so I will try lower them.

Is this being discussed anywhere else? It seems like a big enough problem to deserve some attention. Not game breaking but, being forced to restart the client anytime you want your sound back after going to WvW and not having any real WvW sound is a bit of a problem

I have this problem when using the maximum sound quality, this is an old problem, I can only play WvW using the option fasted.
Others peoples in my guild also has this problem.