Issues, Workarounds & Localization

Hmm.. I had a similar experience as follows:

I was attacking a customs office yesterday with about 10 of my corp mates on grid shooting at it. No NPCs on grid unless our drones fall in that category, in which case there were an estimated 15 to 20 drones on grid.

Sound was working with no issues on main client until I started up a second client for an alt to provide more dps. On that alt's client the sound seemed fine until I arrived on grid with the main fleet at which point there was crackling and popping as described so I muted sound on that second client.

My main client sound was unaffected and remained unmuted.

I also switched between muting my main and unmuting my alt to see if it was my end. My main remained unaffected and only my second client was affected.

Thought little of it until I found this thread and while I am reporting it, I have not been able to replicate it yet.

Thanks for the response - I'll upload the video to youtube now and link it in the bug report. Give me an hour or so to get it all converted/compressed/uploaded and then I'll edit this post once it's all done.

Edit: Video uploaded, and bug report filed. The link to the video is within the bug report. Let me know how it goes and if you need any more examples.

I'm using Teampseak but as the moment of speaking cannot say if problem occured with TS running. Will test it once in home and give feedback.

Good work guys!

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I've had this even before Rubicon. Seems to happen everytime i switch between a USB Razer Megaldon headset and my onboard Soundblaster based card.

Work around is disabling/enabling the in-game audio.

Yes, I was using Teamspeak at the time.

Thanks for the response - in the video that I recorded I was indeed using TS3, and also had a headset plugged in, so it may well be related to that. I'll quickly test the same environment but without TS3 open and will see what happens.

CCP Barukr - what do you mean by setup info? Let me know if you mean system specs/programs running/external hardware installed etc while playing and I'll give you a comprehensive list.

To give a short summary though my system has an 8-core CPU and the PC has 6GB RAM, so specs are unlikely to be the issue. Nothing else is running except eve, a browser, and occasionally TS. When TS is running a USB headset with mic is plugged in as well.

Last night while running 4 accounts, 2 per pc I had the sound problem on my older pc running xp as well. It happened when we were reinforcing a tower and I had to zoom out all the way on both clients to end the popping sound, it is also the pc I run teamspeak on.

In addition to the sound problem I was having very poor performance, where alt tabbing was very slow and reducing damage displays to a jerky movement that seriously hindered game play. On my newer pc running windows 7 there was no problem.

I did have full watch lists on both clients and after a while I shut them down and this did seem to improve the situation. The problem only happened when the fleet was on a hostile pos as well, travelling through gates and such was no issue.

Sounds great, it's worth mentioning that this wasn't an issue pre-Rubicon as well, although I guess that's pretty obvious.

OS: W7 Ultimate x64
CPU: Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz (8 CPU's)
RAM: 6GB DDR3
Chipset: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family (3000)
Graphing Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT540M
How many clients: Just the one
Teamspeak or Mumble etc.: TS running in the video I provided to describe the issue, but also having the issue when TS is not running
SSD or regular HD: Regular HD
Any other thing you think might be relevant: DX11 client, unable to swap out to the DX9 client to do some tests with that because of the launcher bug which has already been reported.

same problem here...

OS: Windows 8.1 x64
CPU: AMD A4 5000
RAM: 4 GB
Chipset:
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 8330
How many clients: 1 - 2
Teamspeak or Mumble etc.: TS3
SSD or regular HD: HD