Guild Wars 2

Is anyone else getting this humming sound that just starts out of nowhere in gw2?
I could be running around in wvw then all of the sudden all the sound that’s going on shuts off and only a oscillating sound is left from high volume to low volume.

Strange thing is that the sound doesn’t go away even when I close gw2.
Yet the sound also only starts when I play the game.

I have to restart my laptop whenever this sound starts.

the humming is a soft crash, one that you can get out of by holding ctrl+alt+del and launching task manager from the manager.

Squall Leonhart.2075:

the humming is a soft crash, one that you can get out of by holding ctrl+alt+del and launching task manager from the manager.

ahhh thank you, i will try that next time.
Just curious do you know this out of personal experience?
or is there a website where you found the Q/A to these issues?

i experienced it after the karka event patch, i haven’t since i started deleting local.dat after every big update.

Could you expand on this a bit please? Once in task manager, are you just shutting down GW2? Exiting GW2, and re-logging in seems the only solution so far. In WvW, this often forces you to reenter the queue. (sux)

This is what I know for sure:

1.This “Bug” is posted by others on youtube, so, it seems that it’s the same oscillating tone for everyone.

2. It only occurs for me in WvW.

3. It’s not a weak or slow computer issue. (P8-Z77 V-pro, i7-3770K, 16GB Vengence, SSD, 2-6850’s. …4,150 on the passmark test)

So, is this “soft crash” being caused by a software bug, that Arena Net needs to fix? Or, is it a particular audio driver issue? Or, something unusual, like (reaching a bit) a weird incompatibility with crossfire, or a 5.1 surround issue, causing the crash? (I do have 5.1 surround sound running)

Please further explain deleting the “local.dat” after every big update solution to us “software non-experts”. What are we doing, how do we do it, and why does it fix it??

Why is it only in WvW? It must have something to do with merging 3 servers in one arena. ? Or, just the size of the battles, and sheer number of weapon sounds merging

It happens about 2 or 3 times per playing session for me. I, for one, would really like to know more. Especially, something official from Arena-net. It’s a sucky deal since it happens regularly. If nothing else. …“Yeah, we know, were working on it.” Would be great so that we can quit troubleshooting ghosts.

I actually just found the “big thread” on this…. The search words not being common make it harder to pin down info on the topic I guess.. Humming, ringing, audio loss, oscillating tone, sound bug…

This issue actually just started for me…. I guess it’s been going on for a long time for some players… I had no idea it was an old and beaten down topic.

I’ll read the 12 pages on the other thread, and stop troubleshooting now and wait for the fix….