The Sound Problem

Post here if u have a problem with the sound since the last update and cant get it back to how it used to be, and have adjusted the sliders already.

I have a problem getting the following skills to have any sound effect at all and have fiddled with the slider enough:

Mending
Balthazars Spirit
Blessed Aura
Blessed Signet

I havent played too much since update but im sure theres more, since alot of people complaining!

i would like an option to just turn off all the extra stuff and have it back to how it used to be;(

Thanks for the great input i have already played with the sliders

idk those r to leet for sound.
To turn of the option.. f 11 then turn quality off all the way.. i like the sounds tho

hi xb

I have sounds but when someone casts an enchantment.. when i stand on that spot where they were i will hear them casting it over and over

Also i have delayed sounds, I do heal sig and no sound.. 5 seconds later il hear it lol

The sound seems to try too hard to be stereo. It makes it difficult to focus, especially with only one earphone in. I've also gotten some stuck loops of sounds from time to time, and jitters in battle sounds.

Hello, I too have this sound problem. It appears as if I can only hear a few sounds at a time, some sounds keep cutting off - and I hear some sounds repeating themselves over and over aswell.

I've tried fiddling with the slider in game, fiddling with dxdiag and device manager, with still no luck. Please Anet fix this problem! >_<

Intermittent bowstring pullback and barrage release sound is quarky too, as is the timing on the barrage skill (and all the interupt skills). I attributed this to perhaps an overwhelming amount of lag due to lots and lots of people logging in and receiving their large patch.
Or maybe my eyes aren't catching up to my fingers like they used to...

everytime i play some type of pvp, the end of the match always ends in some sound looping till the next round starts. which is starting to irritate me, i sent anet a bug report.

yea i've had the same problem its getting really annoying. Anet should've tested it out a little more or made sure it would work better before implementing it

It seems to be certain skills that are having the looping sound for me.. inspired hex and mantra of recall constantly play the sound from the spot where it was cast ... kind of ammusing, since I use them quite frequently in a match ^^

I have the problem where no skills I use have any sound effect at all but after I use them (in most cases when the fights over) I hear the sound effect of the skills I previously used over and over again.

It freaks me out.

And I havent smoked cack in like a week so we can rule that out.

it sounds weird on surround sound [I don't know if it actually uses the 5 channels, but left and right and the center when something plays it feels like the sound is surging around me in a circle nonstop]

it's trrriiippppppy.

When I'm 55ing, and having to recast my spells very often to gain the Divine favour heal, this looping effect is damn annoying. >.<

Sound. Sucks. Please. Revert.

I was very surprised to see DS3D put in (no objection) instead of EAX but I can see why.

Unless you have a creative card, cpu resources of EAX emulation on non creative labs cards is much higher then on non-creative labs cards, where DS3D is part of the DirectX API's which all cards tend to support more universally.

http://www.thevirtualworkforce.co.uk...ound_cards.htm
I have no doubt there going to be "tweaking" this, especially getting the 3d sound aspect. I expect to see in the future presets for headphones, desktop speakers, multi-channel so it will sound better (more accurate) based on you speaker setup.

Assuming if you slide to the far left you turn off DS3D.

If you slide it far left, you turn off more than just 3d sound. Half the sound effects in the game disappear. I just toyed around with it in observer mode. It is so broken right now, I'm gonna have to play with no sound at all until this is rectified.

The only place I have sound problem is the Fire Island. Everything else seems to be fine for some reason. :S

I'm also having similar problems, and the music stops playing after the first track or so.

Slider on the far left turns half of the sound effects off, and I just hear weird tingling sounds when trying to hit something with weapon. Several skills don't have any sounds at all, weird loops etc.

Please, give us an option to go back to previous sounds.

For some odd when I was in Heroes Ascent I heard sounds like someone digesting their food in my headphones, i thought it was Vent acting up though so I left it at that.

I have the same problem myself, certain sounds will keep repeating themselves over and over without end (and there's really no describing how utterly annoying this gets after a while). Also, the new "3D" audio makes the effects sound muffled and blurred, and a few sound effects even seem to have outright disappeared. A.Net can claim they've "improved the performance of the game's audio engine" all they want. I say the overall quality of the sound effects has taken a rather large nosedive.

Please give us the old audio engine back, right now. Or give us an enable/disable option.


- Mana