Guild Wars 2

When i get into big battles almost no sound will load and the sound gets very unsynced with what’s going on. I’m not sure if this is a tech issue or just that there’s so much sounds it doesn’t load them all. I tried putting the sound to the fastest setting, but still same result. It’s really frustrating because sometimes i won’t even realize what’s going on because i can’t hear anything. How do I fix this?

Two things.

Sound is streamed off the hard drive, if the hard drive is being pounded due to other assets needing to load, sound doesn’t have a chance to play.

Behellagh.1468:

Two things.

Sound is streamed off the hard drive, if the hard drive is being pounded due to other assets needing to load, sound doesn’t have a chance to play.

how do i fix this if this is the problem?

Only thing I can suggest, if you don’t have the game on an SSD is to make sure the game data file is defragged after every patch. I use a free 3rd party defragmenter that allows me to defrag of file or a folder independent of the whole drive. Can’t hurt.

Otherwise there’s nothing you can do short of a faster machine or storage like an SSD.

Fixed it! for anyone wondering it was the steam overlay