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[aserwin]

 It's hard to describe - everything runs beautifully and seamlessly until maybe a half hour in, usually when there's quite a bit of action. Then a subtle crackling sound will begin that only amplifies as time passes. Dialogue sounds echoey, and then graphics will start to lag considerably. Now, to run through what I've tried (note that I use headphones while playing ME3):

-Switching my headphones between a cheap pair and beats audio pair. And, of course, unplugging the headphones to see if the problem still persisted
-5 factory resets of my computer, followed by full updating of windows and all drivers (especially the sound driver, of course)
-Corresponding to the factory resets, I re-installed ME3 five separate times, alternating between installing straight from the disc and downloading/installing through Origin without the disc
-I've had a running dialogue with EA support, and have tried all their suggestions. They finally just gave up and stopped emailing me back. Among their suggestions I tried uninstalling all other devices under the sound/video controller list in the device manager besides the audio card I use - the integrated Intel HD card
-I've tried disabling vsync, anti-aliasing, etc. Putting the graphics settings at the lowest level, and making sure that under ME3 config, sound was turned on as opposed to 'default.'
-I've checked my playback devices under the system and hardware->sound menu, and disabled all peripheral devices besides my speakers that run on the realtek driver. The speakers are default set to stereo. 
-Under system and hardware->sound, under the communications tab, I selected 'do nothing.'
-I've uninstalled and reinstalled the realtek audio driver repeatedly

That's about everything I've tried, to no avail. The same exact thing happens every time I play; half an hour in, crackle crackle until its unbearable. The following are my pc specs:
 
Inspiron 1564
Intel Core i3 2.13 GHz
Integrated Intel HD Audio
Mobile Radeon HD4330, 512 mb DDR3
4 GB Ram
Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit

Any ideas of what to do? I read something about diabling IDT drivers or reinstalling them, but I don't think my system uses them because they aren't in the device manager. Intel update manager did not indicate that I needed them.

[aserwin]

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[aserwin]

EA claimed that very few had this problem with ME3 PC - I'm beginning to think that's the case. Do I need to get a usb sound card, maybe?

[aserwin]

Bump - seriously, is anyone out there experiencing the same issue? I've had this game close to two weeks now, and I can't play it!

[Delusion83]

aserwin wrote...

EA claimed that very few had this problem with ME3 PC - I'm beginning to think that's the case. Do I need to get a usb sound card, maybe?

Wow that's quite the illogical thinking,... it very likely would make your situation worse if anything,...

How one would come to that conclusion when you can get a decent pci soundcard or even a good pcie card with better chances in terms of not having sound related issues,.. I don't even,...

Ok, saw we're talking a Laptop so ignore the above.

Try the following, if ur already using the latest realtek driver (if not get it first) now make sure:

1. under sound- device setup- advanced - the sound format should be set to 16 bit, 48000Hz (as nice as 24 Bit might "sound" based on the term it can cause issues, especially on poor/ old/ slower/ integrated sound card hardware)

2. also while u're there disable any "exclusive mode" settings if there should be any.

3. Your system is running a 64 Bit OS, so make sure it's set up accordingly, don't use 32 Bit drivers (for any hardware, say sound or video), also check your BIOS setup, are you using the latest version? Also, is HPET in 64 Bit Mode enabled?

4. make sure you got the most recent intel 64. bit chipset / sata/ raid whatever drivers on your system

5. disable all hardware/ ports you don't use, (as much as possible through teh BIOS with any hardware and what's left through the Windows device manager) you got 30 USB whatever ports you rarely use? Well why don't you disable at least 20 of em? Old parallel port or whatever, same! Are you using that third SATA onboard solution your system has enabled (BIOS), well I guess you get the idea.

6. this could also be heat related, say if your system get's too hot the video chip or cpu/ fsb possibly get dynamically underclocked/ adjusted to reduce heat, which obviously affects performance in all kinds of nasty ways. Check if you can adjust your fans to run at a higher speed or to not automatically run at the lowest possible speed and also disable any "dynamic" (overclock/ turbo boost or whatever) feature within the bios

7. check background processes when your system starts to lag/ stutter, maybe some program/ process is doing something it shouldn't or at least not at the moment, reduce the amount of background processes active while gaming and make sure some of your game folders are on a whitelist of your antivirus solution to prevent "on the fly" scanners to get in your way while you're gaming

8. don't rely on automatic update checkers or "intel approved" stuff for hardware drivers (some often leave out stuff, check all the hardware manually), look up hardware names and check if you can get more recent, maybe beta version driver (not just for sound,- or video.- "cards" or "chips" other integrated hardware also has drivers.

9. if you're certain you got HPET in 64 bit mode enabled through the BIOS and also disabled any dynamic clock adjustments do this:
use an elevated Command Prompt and type-->    bcdedit /set useplatformclock true
(then reboot)

Modifié par Delusion83, 02 avril 2012 - 09:13 .

[aserwin]

Update - I just bought a usb sound card - the Soundblaster X-Fi Go! -, and the audio problem persists still. And EA got back to me, but started resuming suggestions they previously made.

[aserwin]

I can't believe no one has any suggestion about this. Will EA, if anyone bothers to respond, allow me to return the game? It's unplayable.

[Delusion83]

did you ignore my whole post?

[maelstrome]

I am having the same problem here. The game runs fine for a bit but after a certain point the audio seems to be getting triggered by the same event multiple times which creates a weird echo effect and lags my computer down tremendously. I am also on a laptop so I suspect it has something to do with that. I dont think that it is an overheating situation; i do not suffer the failure in any other game, and indeed the problem only happened recently in ME3.

[GGfenix]

I'm having the same issue as well my system specs are
MSI G45-870 mobo
integrated audio
XFX ATI Raedon 4850 HD graphics card
AMD athlon II x2 3.1ghz
3 gigs ram

[GGfenix]

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