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Diwrnach

Diwrnach

Diwrnach

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Bought an overclockers system that arrived yesterday, its this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-421-OE&groupid=43&catid=2475 with crossfire 290x's.

Wired her up yesterday and left her downloading some games on steam overnight, when I play games on my 5.1 system I am getting horrible crackling, but ONLY in games, figured it might be the on board sound, so installed my G35 headset, and getting the EXACT same problem!

This ONLY happens in games, tried Skyrim, Crysis 3 and Bioshock 3 and have the same result in all of them.

Will most likely contact overclockers on monday, but if anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful, many thanks.
 
Yes, I get perfect sound through all 5.1 speakers, and my headphones, until I play a game, movies, music etc etc all fine, games crackle and pop and skipping, its unplayable.

Oddly enough I just installed BF4, and the sound is perfect.

Skyrim, Crysis 3 and Bioshock 3 none stop crackle in them all through both headphones and speakers.
 
ok my skyrim 290 crossfire does the exact same thing. It's a problem with something to do with crossfire. If you disable one card it works perfectly fine (not ideal i know but i have not spent time working around it yet). Note so far out of all games i have only had it in skyrim but i have not tried bioshock or crysis. while skyrim is running if you tab out and play sound on something else it will still be crackling. It's almost like it's causing some kind of stuttering which is coming across as interference.
But i know it can run perfectly using crossfire am just not sure why certain ones don't
 
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Have you checked the sound setting for the Steam games?

I would also try this idea from another forum:

The first thing I'd try: in Windows, go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound: Manage Audio Devices, bring up the Communications tab, and set it to "Do nothing" when Windows detects communication activity. If that doesn't solve the problem (which it might not; I haven't experienced this precise issue), poke around through the properties of your playback device(s), and probably your microphone as well (could be some kind of weird interaction).
 
OK disabling crossfire seems to fix skyrim, "mostly" fix bioshock 3, though there is still a little popping here and there but not bad, not tried crysis 3 yet.

This is a bit silly, going to have a search but is this something common to a lot of games? seems a waste of money to have crossfired these now :(
 
OK think i got it, its vsync, with both cards enabled and vysnc turned on, you get stutter, crackly audio, turn vsync off and its all gone!

Must be a driver issue, so relieved now, after spending 3k on a PC and being unable to play anything was a bit down, this has brightened me up a lot :)

Thanks a lot for the help everyone, very much appreciated!
 
Tohrazer said:
im a noob so im sure im wrong, but could it be directX? since i heard BF4 uses mantle, and you have an ATI graphics solution
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No, mantle isn't out yet and DX wouldn't cause this issue or very highly improbable

glad you sorted your issue out, very weird that happens during Vsync:confused::confused: (but you shouldn't be using that anyway TUT TUT!)
 
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