Static / Corrupted Sounds: Answered

pgiambal

When playing, sounds are randomly transmitted as static feedback, or corruption. Usually sounds made by other players (sword clangs, etc).

I have fully deleted and re-downloaded the game client today.

I have the latest available Asus Xonar DSX driver (december, 2013). I also tried the latest 3rd party "Uni" driver 1.72 and the issue persists.

I am connecting the Xonar sound card to my speakers (Logitech Z906) via optical cable, and then using 2 Channel 96 KHz output. I also tried 48 KHz output and 8 channels.

I am running Windows 8.1, 64 bit.
Intel Xeon X5680 (6 cores), 48GB RAM
Asus Xonar DSX
Nvidia GTX Titan

HenryH3894

Make sure that after you installed your game, that you run a "Repair" and "Check for update".
Although I have installed the game from scratch, and after using "Repair", I had to download another 10GB...
Maybe not your case, but worth a look, never hurts

pgiambal

Hi, thank you for the suggestion. I just did another repair and check for update. I had done a complete delete & re-download earlier in the day. These operations have not corrected the issue. When installing, I did install both DirectX and VC++ runtimes.

I am noticing even my own footsteps cause static. Sometimes the music stutters.

I've also run DXDIAG and it reports "no problems found" but also that the Asus sound driver (cmudaxp.sys) is not WHQL.

I think I might default back to Realtek onboard sound later but I really don't want to do that for this game as it makes all my music sound hollow and my surround sound weird for my other games...

pgiambal

I have tried running the launcher "As Administrator" - no effect

pgiambal

I am looking at the "UserSettings.txt" file and I am not seeing any audio options regarding quality, sampling, buffers, max number of sounds, etc. It's all just volume level and enable/disable for the types of sounds, apparently. Except for this...

SET SPEAKER_SETUP "0"

Can anyone at Bethesda tell me what the possible values are for this, and what they mean?

pgiambal

Does anyone else reading the forum have an Asus sound card? If you do, is the game sound working correctly, or not? What model and driver do you have, in either case?

pgiambal

At least two other people have identified having the same sound problem that I do... in another thread I created about a graphics issue. All three of us use the EVGA SR-2 motherboard.

It is looking like the sound problems may be caused by the PCI express bus because we have all different sound adapters.

pgiambal

I discovered a solution: disable one of the CPUs on my dual CPU motherboard.

Made new thread:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/62059/evga-sr-2-sound-video-problems-dual-socket-cpu#latest