Sound issues - they just started.

I am having some sound issues, but it seems to be with certain sounds, and not all of them. The most apparent one is dialog. All spoken dialog now seems to echo, not just once, but like someone is talking in a cave, where it repeatedly echoes. Also, the "interrupt" sound is echoing, as is the "ping" on the minimap.

The dialog in the cut scenes is really hard to make out because of all the echoing. I can't figure out why this just started yesterday, anyone have any tips?

Ok, well it's not just in-game anymore... ALL voice sounds coming through echo badly. I was watching the video review of Metroid Prime 3, and could barely make out anything they were saying.

Telling us what sound card/integrated chip your computer has would help a lot, you know.

Integrated audio hardware's drivers usually suck; with hardware acceleration enabled my nForce4 mobo's integrated Realtek audio keeps dropping sounds that have been played a lot. After an hour or two it wouldn't play the "skill failed" or other common sound effects any more, and I know several ways to cause a BSOD through normal sound APIs with the crappy drivers.

Try disabling sound hardware acceleration through the Guild Wars settings dialog; you'll lose the EAX effects completely and the game will use its own sound code, which isn't very good, but at least that should get rid of any bugs.

Have you tampered with vent/teamspeak/any other sound program lately?

What OS etc?

I'm using Windows, Yanman.be

And I'm not sure if this is right, but I believe what I am using as a sound card is
"Realtek AC'97 Audio" The drivers are completely updated by the way.

And lordpwn, I don't think disabling it in Guild Wars will do much, as the echo even happens when you hear the "click" noise when you click on something in Windows.

I think I've heard of this problem; a lot of people seem to have encountered it with Realtek integrated audio. The Realtek drivers should have come with an incredibly ugly replacement for the Windows audio mixer/volume controls dialog. Open that and make sure any of the "audio enhancing" effects are turned off.

I have similar problems with echoing, but I know why mine occur (I have windows 98 OS, around 600 SDRAM, A NDIVIDA (or whatever) graphics card ge force with 256 RAM). Tell me, I know you said it sounded like echo as a cave, do you mean echoing as like fainter as if you shouted at the grand canyon, or are each recuring sounds the same volume? I have the same volume problem, and I beleive it comes from weak sound card, or overheated. I'm not great at knowing all there is to know about specs, don't pretend to be.

^ This computer died recently, so all I can do now for GW is log into this forum and study Guildwiki, and I'll tell you this; Guild Wars' official site has a list of recomended sound cards I think; what version of windows do you have? Not everyone has the same; there's XP, Vistas, 2k, NT 4, 98, 95, 3.1, etc. Anything below XP can have serious compatiblity problems loading new hardware. I know that, that's what killed my computer -_- d*** '98 registry...