Curse

Coldflare · May 29, 2005, 12:22 AM // 00:22

While Guild Wars is open (even at the login screen) about every 15 seconds the sound 'blips'.. While it doesn't affect the stability of the game, it affects my ears and enjoyment of the music/sounds in the game. Any ideas for fixing this, or is this an issue that is experienced by people with my sound card?

EDIT: By the way, even at all low settings it still does this. By 15 seconds I mean often.

OS: Windows XP SP2
PSU: POWMAX 550w
Motherboard: A7N8X-E Deluxe
RAM: Kingmax SuperRAM PC3200 1GB Dual Channel Kit
Processor: Athlon XP 3200+ (OEM)
Video Card: ASUS Radeon 9600XT (A9600XT)
Sound Card: Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
Speakers: Creative Inspire P7800

-Coldflare

ElRey · May 29, 2005, 01:00 AM // 01:00

could be lag, turn all processes off except for the system ones and see if it affects it

Coldflare · May 29, 2005, 01:18 AM // 01:18

It doesn't.. Heh, I already have my PC setup that way.. This only happens with Guild Wars.

EDIT: By the way, even at all low settings it still does this. By 15 seconds I mean often.

ElRey · May 29, 2005, 02:04 AM // 02:04

Try changing your sound card, or for the less drastic, try optimizing your sound quality of Guild Wars mp3's. (I dont know if you can even do this but i would think it would help if possible.

Svenn · May 29, 2005, 12:31 PM // 12:31

When you say blipping, what do you mean? My Audigy 2 Platinum pops/clicks sometimes in game, but it's not regular at all...hard to troubleshoot.

EDIT: Oh, BTW, you have the same mobo and proc that I do.

termite · May 29, 2005, 02:09 PM // 14:09

Make sure your onboard sound is turned off. Also check to see if there have been any new Creative drivers released in the past few weeks. I guess you can also try the onboard sound to see if it's the Audigy's problem or not.

Audigy's are known to perform like crap with some of the older chipsets for AMD and Intel cpu's. I blame it on Creative and their lack of good drivers. That's probably the main reason I've stuck with my DFI LanParty 875B's onboard CMedia chipset.

Svenn · May 29, 2005, 02:48 PM // 14:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by termite

Make sure your onboard sound is turned off. Also check to see if there have been any new Creative drivers released in the past few weeks. I guess you can also try the onboard sound to see if it's the Audigy's problem or not.

My onboard's disabled, but I'll double-check to make sure there isn't something that I missed in device mgr. The latest Creative drivers completely jacked my GW, so I had to roll them back.

I'm not getting the problem often enough to go to the onboard, yet, especially since I can't jack my guitar directly into it without an adapter and associated hassles. Last night, it didn't pop once while doing random PvP for hours and hours.

I agree about the Creative drivers, though. Crap. Comes with crap that breeds like a Compaq in heat (background programs, sys tray items, menu & shortcut items galore...). Except for sound cards, I'll never buy anything else from Creative again. And with sound, I'll consider other brands next time, because there is a lot more variety available now.

MaglorD · May 30, 2005, 06:03 AM // 06:03

I have the same soundcard as you and it's flawless, not even a pop anywhere. I'm using the drivers from Nov 04 I think.

aeroclown · May 30, 2005, 06:15 AM // 06:15

Do you currently have any devices attatched to the sound card like a guitar,di, amp, or anything of that nature ?

If ou do I would suggest leaving it unplugged unless you are actually using it, these devices can create line noise and can pick up line noise and transmit them into the inputs of your device.

Just a thought

Sweetloaf · May 30, 2005, 08:40 AM // 08:40

I used to get a regular popping/cracle sound, I also have an Audigy 2ZS Platinum, rather bizarrely changing graphics drivers completely solved this problem? Unsure why but worth a try!