the audio crackling/popping issue. I literally cannot play a single BG, dungeon, or be in a main city that has a Death Knight in it because it’s a Death Knight audio cue or something that’s causing the issue. It happens so often too that it starts to hurt my ears and I just have to stop playing.
Even disabling in-game sounds still causes the audio crackling. Disabling in-game sounds and looking at your PC’s volume mixer shows a short jump in volume whenever the audio crackle happens.
If you mention that there’s an audio crackle/popping issue in chat, people will whisper you saying “Holy hell I thought it was just my headset dying, it’s a blizz issue?!”
It’s been an issue since the PTR and they refuse to fix it. It’s now known that it’s a Death Knight issue because people will be fine until a Death Knight is nearby. (For example out questing somewhere and then a DK shows up)
I’d post this in the bug forums but there’s already posts there in regards to it and it’s quite apparent that Blizzard doesn’t read the bug report forums.
It’s not everyone it seems.
Some people have had the issue, updated their sound drivers and it fixed it.
Other people, like myself, updated sound drivers (and tried many other things – like changing audio bitrate) and so far nothing has fixed it.
It’s really weird because it’s not even people with the same hardware that have the issue. I have a Logitech headset and my friend has a Bose headset. Heck even our motherboards are different.
