Guild Wars 2

So I have a problem.

A lot of times when I’m fighting during an event (Jormag, or even orr events) my music stops and I get this terrible ringing. It’s loud and it just fades in and out. I’m not sure why at all. It just started yesterday and it’s happened 3 times now. Only way to stop it is to exit to desktop and restart.

Also I’ve noticed for some reason I can’t maintain a good normal fps in the game. Other games I have no problem maintaining between 30-60+ fps. This game I can get to 30 fps.. If I’m just standing there. And that’s on lowest settings. I have a good custom rig too.

2 TB hard drive
8 gigs of RAM
AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor, 3000 Mhz 2 core(s), 2 Logical Processors
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2GB vid card

EDIT: I also have an issue of mobs spawning, but not showing and not everyone showing during events w/ ~20+ people in them.. The mobs’ll spawn and I can’t see them, which makes it a lot harder. Any insight on that would be nice.

Is the sound bug you hear the same as the one in this video?

Yes. That’s it.

This happens on my system aswell. Atleast once a day. (often during dragon events, but have started randomly too)

Im talking about the sound issue, not the FPS issue also mentioned.

Dont think my specs will have anything to say about this issue but just in case:
AMD PhenomII X4 965 OC@ 3.8Ghz
Asus Radeon HD 7970 GHZ Edition OC@1125mhz/1575mhz
Gigabyte 990FX UD3 MB
Xonar something something soundcard

Its annoying as kitten

Also, i’v had this issue since release day. Each day. The soundcard is just a couple of days old so it cant be it.

See if lowering sound quality helps.

Meh.. I just want some insight.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1075781-tweak-enable-hpet-in-bios-and-os-for-better-performance-and-fps/

My speculation is thread desynch. While running GW2 in windowed see if your ratio is within 0.001 of 1.0 in WinTimerTester

My ratio was staying at 0.9999 and it constantly stayed at 1.0 when I was in Orr.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Weird-Sound-Glitch-Bug/first#post126283

If lowering sound didn’t work, then there’s nothing else you can do.

I had this issue once already, it’s not a problem with your soundcard, it’s just a bug.

I am having the same Exact issue.

I’m having the same exact issue here… The video above confirms it’s a bug with Guild Wars 2.

Same issue here too… SB-Xfi…

I am having the same issue with the sound. Its really annoying if it happends in WWW because you have to wait 2 houres in Que again :-(

The game actuly crashes sometimes when this bugs acours.

GW2 has been running great for me since the 25th of August but I experienced this problem for the first time a few days ago during WvW (19th of September) and It crashed my pc.

Ever since then GW2 has had random crashes (corrupted archive warning each time) but the ringing sound hasn’t reoccurred. At first these were 2-3 crashes a day but yesterday my crashes became so frequent that today I reinstalled my OS and now I’m reinstalling GW2 right now.

It only seems to happen during GW2 though cause I had no problem with Sleeping dogs or Borderlands 2 at all. I’ve run memory diagnostics a few times to make sure my memory isn’t faulty and no errors were detected.

This is really annoying because I built this new pc just to be sure I could play GW2 and now it seems it’s the only game I can’t play.

Is a dev ever going to respond this this??

Been having this problem since launch. I little dev response would be nice

Devs know about this issue.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Weird-Sound-Glitch-Bug/