Anyone else having sound issues after small patches in games

jordan3550

Currently I’ve been getting small patches during game play and they freeze the screen and then the sound starts crackling only way I can get this to stop is to exit game and start again. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

sthe91

I have not encountered a problem with the sound starting to crackle. Though I have had small patches during gameplay. So somehow there is a ghost autopatcher going on, even though I have that option disabled for on-demand patching. I have had a sound that sounds like a trash compactor and as soon as I hear it I know the game is going to crash or it gets close to crashing unless that is what you are talking about. I have had that happen on Risa, in missions, etc. I even got it when I put the Reman shield on in orbit around Risa and it caused a crash besides the visual itself being borked there. As soon as it happens, it is uh oh! Sometimes I luck out but most often I do not. It really stinks. I also have the problem where after I close the game, the STO theme is still playing or whatever music is in the zone even though I have exited the game. Weird stuff like that. I wish they would get that stuff fixed, it would really help.

jordan3550

> @sthe91 said:
> I have not encountered a problem with the sound starting to crackle. Though I have had small patches during gameplay. So somehow there is a ghost autopatcher going on, even though I have that option disabled for on-demand patching. I have had a sound that sounds like a trash compactor and as soon as I hear it I know the game is going to crash or it gets close to crashing unless that is what you are talking about. I have had that happen on Risa, in missions, etc. I even got it when I put the Reman shield on in orbit around Risa and it caused a crash besides the visual itself being borked there. As soon as it happens, it is uh oh! Sometimes I luck out but most often I do not. It really stinks. I also have the problem where after I close the game, the STO theme is still playing or whatever music is in the zone even though I have exited the game. Weird stuff like that. I wish they would get that stuff fixed, it would really help.

Yeah a think that sounds similar to what I’m experiencing. I even get delays in the sound for example I click the inventory and you get the beep noise but sometimes it plays a few seconds after

rndfluctuation

Yes, having/had it as well, but my comp is dying nowadays so mostly cant even login anymore.

For me it's a precursor for a sudden shutdown. I suspect in my case it's about my CPU is nearly 100%, laptop heats to touch (overheating?), all stutters (all slowed and non responsive, and sound as you described) and slowed and then, if unlucky, monitor gets back and laptop powers off in a sudden and off course screen goes black.

As said elsewhere this could be my comp's issue only (it definitely dies) but since you also report this maybe there is additional "global" factor.

notable mostly on patching, welcome screen (again?) or login procedure, (possibly transferring between areas too, along with graphics intensive situations, cutscenes and dialogue boxs.

patch on demand can't be shut off anymore btw, I think. it was noted in one of the notes and I think those are the small patches. I saw that when status changed, too (this is not an accurate description), not only when moving between ares / starting a pug etc - for example, if you crash during a mission and it's like updating the file relevant to your current state (in mission for example) or something like that. e.g. to start the mission from a specific point or revert it to its start if it won't reset to a middle stage in that mission due to not "advancing enough" in that mission yet to have a part completed.

salvation4

The on-demand patching cant be turned off for sure and its been a while since thats happening..I alsos experience the sound delay on and off but not too frequently to cause a nuisance..