Hi all,

I have a long recurring issue regarding the sound quality in VO. When starting up the game it sounds completely garbled up and the only workaround is to restart the game several times before getting good sound again.

The issue only occurs in VO. Sound in any other game (I have quite a big Steam library, if I say so myself) or application always works fine. The Ubuntu installation is also fully updated.

Is this a known issue? Are there any logs or config files regarding sound that are specifically related to the VO client that would be helpful posting?

Thanks for any answers on this!

Is this 32bit or 64bit (OS and client).

I have Ubuntu 15.04 x64 installed along-side OSX and Windows, with the x64 client and do not notice this problem. Do you have any secondary sound devices? (Bluetooth headset, USB headset, PS4 controller, HDMI sound device are a few examples)

On my very slow netbook during the loading screen, the sound will be garbled and broken using PulseAudio. Seems like pulse ends up using 100% CPU while VO loads textures and stuff.

Vo's logs are at ~/.vendetta/errors.log. They may or may not contain useful information.

Yeah I've been having an issue as well with audio. I'm using the alsa driver. I am using an HDMI cable for video out but my distro using the nVidia video drivers isn't supposed to support audio over HDMI but I'm not use how to trouble shoot that. I am using the headphone out or the machines internal speakers and have the static audio issue and then it will just randomly resolve itself

Distro: Fedora 22
ALSA audio driver

I checked my error log and found nothing useful.

What card is it Wash, and is it a dedicated HDMI port, or DVI converted to HDMI? Never heard of a true HDMI port not supporting sound, sound is part of the standard.

It's an nVidia quadro FX 570M card with a native HDMI port. I honestly prefer the sound coming from teh built in audio card going to my external mixer but the random static is very annoying and it only happens with Vo.

If the issue is related to pulse consuming all of the CPU, you could try setting a higher niceness for the process.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/48708/change-niceness-priority-of-a-running-process

If possible move down to a stable LTS versions

A bit late to reply, but if you have a gaming rig it most likely have several drivers/sound options, I experienced the same as you when using headphones, so what I did was to shut down both Nvidia HDMI sound and alsa using the sound control ( using Debian Jessie ), linux then took advantage of a third driver which is dedicated to the headphones` port, poof..no more crackling sound.