This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet)

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 14:15:41 GMT TheThirdRace likes this

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Post by seductivewizard on Sept 6, 2017 14:15:41 GMT

Had a pug complaining yesterday that he lost his sound again. So, i guess not all of ya know how to fix the sound bug even after all these months ( :why:

). I don't own a console or care to ever own one. But, this is how you fix it on PC.

DISABLE ORIGIN OVERLAY.

Origin has always been a suck ass client and Overlay has been known to cause issues with many games. This bug was not Bioware's fault.

If you don't know how to do this,

You can also do it for individual games. Right click game's box art/game properties/uncheck overlay

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 14:19:50 GMT Kenny Bania, Qui-Gon GlenN7, and 4 more like this

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Post by Arkhne on Sept 6, 2017 14:19:50 GMT

Was expecting a "Stop playing" thread. Leaving disappointed.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 15:00:09 GMT Arkhne and Scathane like this

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Post by seductivewizard on Sept 6, 2017 15:00:09 GMT

Sept 6, 2017 14:19:50 GMT Arkhne said:

Was expecting a "Stop playing" thread. Leaving disappointed.

Awww, don't be so disappointed.

Here's a less disappointing solution tailored just for ya.

Step 1: STOP PLAYING!!
Step 2: Drop your controller
Step 3: Jump up and down, up and down, until your floor joists break
Step 4: Swiftly drop into your basement, land on your Quarian bum bum

Feeling better?

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 15:06:00 GMT via mobile Arkhne likes this

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Post by poultrymancer on Sept 6, 2017 15:06:00 GMT

I don't play on PC, so won't affect me one way or the other, but assuming this is legit and not a troll, props for the positive contribution.

Credit where credit is due.

I honestly didn't realized how ubiquitous the sound bug was until the thread yesterday. Frankly I'm surprised there's any PC community left if you've all been fighting through complete audio loss every fifth game. Sounds maddening.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 15:28:16 GMT

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Post by Arkhne on Sept 6, 2017 15:28:16 GMT

Sept 6, 2017 15:06:00 GMT poultrymancer said:

I don't play on PC, so won't affect me one way or the other, but assuming this is legit and not a troll, props for the positive contribution.

Credit where credit is due.

I honestly didn't realized how ubiquitous the sound bug was until the thread yesterday. Frankly I'm surprised there's any PC community left if you've all been fighting through complete audio loss every fifth game. Sounds maddening.

It's more often than that, and yes, it truly is. It makes me regret moving from PS3 to PC.

I also have to agree, my post may have looked like trolling, but I will try this out over the next few days and report back. I do appreciate the positive contribution, I guess I've just been around the BSN too long.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 15:38:28 GMT coldwetn0se, akots, and 10 more like this

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Post by Transcended One on Sept 6, 2017 15:38:28 GMT

Disabling the Origin overlay will NOT prevent the sound bug from occurring.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 15:42:08 GMT Sunegami, snowleopard25, and 1 more like this

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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 15:42:08 GMT

I don't have Origin-in-game overlay enabled ... because it causes other problems ...

I get the sound bug a lot ... twice in less than an hour yesterday ... once in a pug doing the daily challenges, once in a group of friends ...

So ... there are probably 99 fixes to the sound bug, but this ain't one of them.

That said, even though I have Origin-in-game disabled globally and it does not run with Andromeda, the individual game properties had Origin-in-game checked ... I've unchecked it ... given the absolutely screwed up coding for Origin, I won't put it past them that this might fix the sound bug if Origin-in-game is disabled globally as well as for an individual game.

Let's hear it for belts and suspenders.

If it does fix the sound bug ... give me a week of game play without the sound cutting out ... I will report back to this thread, singing high praises for OP and the sound bug fix. My expectations are low, but I'm willing to give it a shot.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 15:59:55 GMT andy_3_913, akots, and 6 more like this

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Post by kaileena_sands on Sept 6, 2017 15:59:55 GMT

Sept 6, 2017 15:38:28 GMT Transcended One said:

Disabling the Origin overlay will NOT prevent the sound bug from occurring.

I can confirm I've played without the overlay and had the sound bug. Maybe it bugs out less without the overlay but it bugs anyway.

I am pretty sure at one point it was clarified that the bug is due to some issue with the Frostbite engine itself and not connected to Origin.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 16:06:34 GMT via mobile Qui-Gon GlenN7, Schachmatt123, and 1 more like this

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Post by Scathane on Sept 6, 2017 16:06:34 GMT

Yay, I'm being treated here! You wouldn't say but the sound dropping is... a... Frostbite-ite-ite-ite issue-ue-ue-ue...

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 16:43:18 GMT Ghost Of N7_SP3CTR3, andy_3_913, and 15 more like this

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Post by inert on Sept 6, 2017 16:43:18 GMT

I find that Alt+F4 and loading up ME3MP works pretty good.

...Disabling Origin overlay can fix a lot of problems, but not the sound glitch. I can also confirm.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 17:36:06 GMT inert likes this

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Post by snowleopard25 on Sept 6, 2017 17:36:06 GMT

My audio dropped out 3 times yesterday, and I had to restart the game each time. I don't often use Origin In game, so I will try your "solution" by disabling it. I will let you know if it improves, or if the problem continues.

Thanks for the tip, OP! I will try anything at this point...

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 6, 2017 23:05:17 GMT

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Post by seductivewizard on Sept 6, 2017 23:05:17 GMT

Sept 6, 2017 15:38:28 GMT Transcended One said:

Disabling the Origin overlay will NOT prevent the sound bug from occurring.

Coming up on almost 3 months of NO sound bug since i disabled origin fking overlay globally and for the individual game.

P.S
On the hardware side, make sure you don't have other voice tools like Skype, DISCORD, etc running in the background (just to weed out anything else competing )

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 0:40:20 GMT snowleopard25, Transcended One, and 2 more like this

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Post by toast on Sept 7, 2017 0:40:20 GMT

Sept 6, 2017 15:38:28 GMT Transcended One said:

Disabling the Origin overlay will NOT prevent the sound bug from occurring.

This. And, I'm fairly certain the bug is caused by an "overload" of sounds when certain powers/combos are used at the same time. It's so random when it happens, but it seems to occur when a lot of in game effects occur simultaneously. Could be a specific maps environment, too.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 4:07:57 GMT via mobile Schachmatt123, Scathane, and 2 more like this

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Post by Transcended One on Sept 7, 2017 4:07:57 GMT

Sept 6, 2017 23:05:17 GMT seductivewizard said:

Sept 6, 2017 15:38:28 GMT Transcended One said:

Disabling the Origin overlay will NOT prevent the sound bug from occurring.

Coming up on almost 3 months of NO sound bug since i disabled origin fking overlay globally and for the individual game.

P.S
On the hardware side, make sure you don't have other voice tools like Skype, DISCORD, etc running in the background (just to weed out anything else competing )

Believe it or not, but you're hardly the first with this suggestion. I already tried this, and it's just a placebo. I never used stuff like discord by the way.

You can say many things of Origin, but it's not the cause of this bug. You just got lucky I'm afraid, because one of these days it WILL find you again.

If it really was as easy as disabling Origin it would have been common knowledge by now.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 11:08:48 GMT Schachmatt123 and skauron like this

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Post by Scathane on Sept 7, 2017 11:08:48 GMT

The question about sound dropping has already been put forward to the devs. Billy Buskell answered it on May 25th: "It is a larger bug that relates to Frostbite (the game engine underlying MEA) and they have reached out to the Frostbite team for help."

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 11:30:03 GMT snowleopard25 and Scathane like this

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Post by skauron on Sept 7, 2017 11:30:03 GMT

The full text of what was said was:

"And one of the other ones that comes up a few times too is anything with the audio. Errr this is something that we are aware of it's actually a little bit deeper than we able to look into ourselves. So we've been reaching out to some folks at the Frostbite dev team level. So, again can't go into a ton of detail but it's actually unfortunately not unique to mass effect its just we know that there are ways that it manifests in our games. So nothing to announce right now other than yes we are looking into it, it's something that we're aware of but nothing to update on beyond that."

On 3rd of August, 2017, i followed up on this, with this question "During one of the May livestreams you (Bioware) said that the problem with the audio cutting out in multiplayer was being passed to the Frostbite Dev Team. This was 2 months ago now.. so has there been any update on this? is it going to be fixed? and when?"
(row 179 on JRs Twitch Question Archive

and got this response:

"Yeah, the audio cut out problem is a frostbite problem globally.. so...even if they were to fix it we would not be able to fix it for our game any more? errrm that would mean 'integrations and fancy things' errm so we are always looking at that of course and frostbites gonna try and fix that. but.."

So there you have it, it never got fixed and never will be fixed because of 'INTEGRATIONS AND FANCY THINGS"

Sept 7, 2017 11:08:48 GMT Scathane said:

The question about sound dropping has already been put forward to the devs. Billy Buskell answered it on May 25th: "It is a larger bug that relates to Frostbite (the game engine underlying MEA) and they have reached out to the Frostbite team for help."

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 11:48:32 GMT Jeremiah12LGeek, Evil, and 7 more like this

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Post by Scathane on Sept 7, 2017 11:48:32 GMT

Really? We have this list somewhere on these forums with possible BioWare answers to customers, this should definitely be on it! :lol:

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 12:35:30 GMT Arkhne and Scathane like this

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Post by skauron on Sept 7, 2017 12:35:30 GMT

Sept 7, 2017 11:48:32 GMT Scathane said:

Really? We have this list somewhere on these forums with possible BioWare answers to customers, this should definitely be on it! :lol:

[X] INTEGRATIONS AND FANCY THINGS

for some reason it made me think of Doctor Who's 'Timey Wimey things' when i heard them say this

It is two twenty sided dice with bioware corporate bull* words and expressions on them, When asked an awkward question you have to make a sentence with both of the words rolled on the two dice within 15 seconds for bonus points.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 15:52:24 GMT BadgerladDK, Arkhne, and 2 more like this

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Post by Transcended One on Sept 7, 2017 15:52:24 GMT

Sept 7, 2017 11:56:11 GMT tatann said:

It's sad they left a great engine like Unreal (my favorite since UT2003) for this pile of crap Frostbite

There are plenty of Unreal Tech 3 (most overused engine ever) and some Tech 4 engine games with issues of their own. Using this or that engine isn't a guarantee that a game will be great technically.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 16:27:01 GMT via mobile

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Post by Scathane on Sept 7, 2017 16:27:01 GMT

Sept 7, 2017 15:52:24 GMT Transcended One said:

Sept 7, 2017 11:56:11 GMT tatann said:

It's sad they left a great engine like Unreal (my favorite since UT2003) for this pile of crap Frostbite

There are plenty of Unreal Tech 3 (most overused engine ever) and some Tech 4 engine games with issues of their own. Using this or that engine isn't a guarantee that a game will be great technically.

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Post by poultrymancer on Sept 7, 2017 16:38:42 GMT

Sept 7, 2017 16:27:01 GMT Scathane said:

Sept 7, 2017 15:52:24 GMT Transcended One said:

There are plenty of Unreal Tech 3 (most overused engine ever) and some Tech 4 engine games with issues of their own. Using this or that engine isn't a guarantee that a game will be great technically.

But witches and witches should be burned...

Since the sentence doesn't make sense as written, I choose to interpret it as "butt-witches and witches." No idea what the former might be, but they sound scary.

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This is how you fix the sound bug (if you haven't figured it out yet) Sept 7, 2017 17:07:24 GMT via mobile Qui-Gon GlenN7 and poultrymancer like this

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Post by Scathane on Sept 7, 2017 17:07:24 GMT

Sept 7, 2017 16:38:42 GMT poultrymancer said:

Sept 7, 2017 16:27:01 GMT Scathane said:

But witches and witches should be burned...

Since the sentence doesn't make sense as written, I choose to interpret it as "butt-witches and witches." No idea what the former might be, but they sound scary.

My apologies: it's when one mixes sociolects (as in English, Weblish and Dunglish) that one socio-dyslects, so to speak.

Another attempt, then: "But they're witches and witches should be burned!"

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