Elenear Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Hi guys. I'm having a really annoying problem with Skyrim. Whenever I play using headphones, after a while I get some crackling sounds, kind of like a white noise. Severity varies - sometimes it's a crack or two and it stops and sometimes it sounds like it's blowing up my headphones and it cuts off whole sound. Sometimes restarting the game helps, but sometimes I need to mess around, i.e. change my sound card mode (more on this later) or even restart my PC... When I play using speakers it also happens but not as often and I seem to be able to play longer before it happens. I have Sound Blaster Fatal1ty Platinum sound card and Creative 2.1 speaker set. For headphones it's usually about 30-40 minutes of gameplay and on speakers it's much longer, sometimes it does not happen at all. My sound card has 3 modes - Entertainment, Gaming and Audio Creation. After turning the game off, the crackling sound doesn't stop, I need to the card's mode - this seems to "reset" the sound and the crackling stops. Although, as mentioned - sometimes it comes back straight away when I switch the mode back to gaming and then the only solution is to restart my PC. I read somewhere that Sound Blaster cards haven't got the best compatibility with Skyrim and that lowering the sound quality helps, so I tried lowering it from 24-bit 48000Hz to 16-bit 24000 Hz, but that doesn't seem to help at all. It's driving me nuts, I've spent long long time sorting out my Skyrim installation (STEP + SkyRe + many other mods) and when I'm finally able to play I get this! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. P.S. All my drivers are updated, I have Windows 7 Home. My system: AMD Phenom 2 6-core 3.2 GHz, ASUS GeForce GTX660 2GB VRAM, 4 GB system RAM.
Georgiegril Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 The crackling you mention, it sounds to me like it may be caused by a bad connection, wire, or even a ground fault. I actually have had this problem, and after a lot of searching, discovered it was caused by may case using the same ground wire for the front USB and audio jack ports. I decided to avoid it by simply using the rear audio jacks. However, in the course of figuring out my problem, I ran across folks with the same symptoms, but caused by connections coming loose, or bad wiring in their headphones or speakers. Like you I have a creative soundblaster system, and but the sound issues I had were not related (for me) to the hz level. I do find that disabling sound blaster enhancements improves the general sound quality in the game. Hope that gives you some more things to look at in solving your problem!
Elenear Posted March 24, 2013 Author Posted March 24, 2013 Thanks mate, appreciate your input. I tried connecting headphones directly to my sound card as opposed to going through speakers' headphones port, but no success. Saying that, my headphones are quite old, so it may be the actual wire... I'll try connecting a different pair. I never thought of that - thanks again! If anyone else could help, I'll be most grateful.
rogelioscar Posted February 15, 2014 Posted February 15, 2014 I uploaded a fix for this in Nexushttp://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51119/?Greetings
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