solaries275

I bought a sound card today. After 45 minutes of play time with the card, there were no issues with sound. No whistling no squealing. So it would seem my problem is fixed. Thank you to everyone that posted suggestions.

RIght now I am using the on board sound, not a sound card. This sound also occurs when I play SWTOR. Have not played anything else in a while, so I do not know if it happens in say FNV or something. I believe I have changed the sound properties to CD Quality before. Trust me, I searched high and low on google before posting here. I will try it again, after i get the driver that was suggested.

I am hoping a sound card will fix the issue.

I will give that a try. I have also noticed that talking to Mjoll will stop the sound with some of the words she says. But it comes back when other sounds are activated.

My speakers weren't very expensive, they are Logitech speakers. 2 regular channels and the sub. So unfortunately I do not have an equalizer. I get the squealing with my front and rear jacks and with head phones. I feel like it is a software issue. This didnt start until i updated my OS and if it were a bad ground I would assume it would be a constant. I have just started playing soundtracks on youtube at a decent volume while playing games. They stop the noise after it has started. I feel like this would also not be the case if it were a ground issue.

Well, I have tried the front and rear jacks. Also last night I plugged in my mic and enabled it and then physically muted it with the switch on the mic. This seems to have made the noise more quiet and less frequent. I am hoping it is not a bad ground >.<

yes I did. Not a stupid question at all.

My speakers are running through the motherboard. Somehow i think this is a windows 7 issue. I didn't have this problem until I switched to Win 7. And I don't have an HDMI cable.

I don't have anything else I can try the speakers with. I will try unplugging my network cable as well. The speakers themselves are brand new as of this past Sunday. I had the same issue on my old speakers. One of the reasons I got the new ones. Also should mention that it only happens in games and goes away 15 to 45 seconds after I exit the game I am playing. Certain NPC voices will also cause the squeal to either subside or stop, only to return again from another sound, or that same NPC's voice. As of right now I have updated to the newest driver for my video card (a friends suggestion) I have alsp rolled back my sound driver to what was on it before I updated to windows 7.

Just little update, the last thing I tried didn't fix my sound issue. So I am still hunting around for a solution.

So there was one other thing I didn't try. I adjusted my main computer volume all the way up. Then set the application volume to 50, and when I started Skyrim I reduced it's master volume to 1/3. This so far seems to have solved my issue. Thank you very much. Oh I also made sure to un-check allowing applications to take exclusive control of the sound device (Control Panel > Sound > Properties).

It is a desktop computer. The only thing I have not tried that you suggested is unplugging USB's. The only USB device I have is a keyboard. Its a logitec with a backlight. Well that an reinstalling mouse drivers. It is a corded mouse.

So far on this issue I have reinstalled my sound driver. Rolled back my sound driver. I have a new set of speakers and I have made all kinds of different settings adjustments to my sound. SO far nothing seems to have stopped this issue. I have also had it happen on other games. So its not an exclusive problem with Skyrim.

Two things I cannot bring myself to do in Skyrim; join the Imperials and Kill Paarthurnax.

Just curious, did anyone else with this problem beat the main quest AND have the mod Deadly Dragons active?