Having popping noises coming from my Bose speakers only when I play World of Warcraft. This problem only happens when I try to use my speakers, when I put on my headset the sound quality is sublime. I’ve went on YouTube, Rome 2, Civilization 6 and all is well and fine, only happens on WoW. WoW sounds and music bring this game to life for me, please help!!
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Hi Etari
Let’s try this fix that has helped with other sound issues.
If you navigate to the Wow folder retail folder then open the WTF folder. Look for your Config file. Right click then use Notepad to open. What you see is a long list of game Cvars.
On the list look for this setting.
SET Sound_NumChannels “xx” (the x’s could be 64 or 32 - depending on ingame settings)
Change the setting to 128. Should look like this then.
SET Sound_NumChannels “128”
Close Notepad and save changes at prompt.
Now the caveat here is this may not work for older or underpowered systems. Basically you are telling your system to play up to 128 different sounds at once.
If that doesn’t help we should take a look at a DXDiag report:
The second section of page has DXDiag report instructions - we don’t require the MSinfo report.
That will be a wall of text. If you have issues pasting on the Forum here go ahead and put it up on pastebin.com. Provide the link code portion of the URL - example below.
(The green bold portion of the link: https://pastebin.com/**Qk28Ed1P**)
Well the problem was fixed for a few days and now it’s back. I don’t really understand what’s going on. The computer was custom built and cost me $4,000 just for the computer not including monitor, keyboard, mouse and Bose speakers. I bought in summer of 2017 and have used it only 7 months of the 2 years I’ve had it. When I set up the computer it was perfect, stopped playing for 6 months, came back to WoW and speakers were popping, but never with my headset only with my Bose speakers.
Let’s have a look at the DXDiag report next then Etari
I’m pretty computer illiterate, where is the WoW retail folder located?
It is found in the main Wow folder which is likely on your C: drive > Program Files (x86) - Wow should be installed there by default. The retail folder will be inside the main Wow folder.
SET portal “US”
SET textLocale “enUS”
SET audioLocale “enUS”
SET agentUID “wow_enus”
SET hwDetect “0”
SET videoOptionsVersion “15”
SET gxWindow “1”
SET gxMaximize “1”
SET gxVSync “1”
SET graphicsQuality “5”
SET RAIDgraphicsQuality “5”
SET farclip “6000.000000”
SET horizonStart “1400.000000”
SET particleDensity “50.000000”
SET particleMTDensity “70.000000”
SET waterDetail “2.000000”
SET rippleDetail “1.000000”
SET reflectionMode “0.000000”
SET sunShafts “1.000000”
SET refraction “1.000000”
SET groundEffectDensity “64.000000”
SET groundEffectDist “160.000000”
SET projectedTextures “1.000000”
SET shadowMode “2.000000”
SET shadowTextureSize “1024.000000”
SET shadowSoft “0.000000”
SET SSAO “1.000000”
SET DepthBasedOpacity “1.000000”
SET textureFilteringMode “4.000000”
SET terrainLodDist “400.000000”
SET wmoLodDist “350.000000”
SET terrainTextureLod “0.000000”
SET terrainMipLevel “0.000000”
SET worldBaseMip “0.000000”
SET OutlineEngineMode “1.000000”
SET lightMode “2.000000”
SET lodObjectCullSize “20.000000”
SET lodObjectCullDist “30.000000”
SET lodObjectMinSize “60.000000”
SET lodObjectFadeScale “90.000000”
SET RAIDfarclip “6000.000000”
SET RAIDWaterDetail “2.000000”
SET RAIDSSAO “1.000000”
SET RAIDDepthBasedOpacity “1.000000”
SET RAIDgroundEffectDensity “64.000000”
SET RAIDgroundEffectDist “160.000000”
SET RAIDshadowMode “2.000000”
SET RAIDterrainLodDist “400.000000”
SET RAIDterrainTextureLod “1.000000”
SET RAIDwmoLodDist “350.000000”
SET RAIDterrainMipLevel “0.000000”
SET RAIDworldBaseMip “0.000000”
SET RAIDtextureFilteringMode “4.000000”
SET RAIDprojectedTextures “1.000000”
SET RAIDshadowTextureSize “1024.000000”
SET RAIDshadowSoft “0.000000”
SET RAIDreflectionMode “0.000000”
SET RAIDrippleDetail “1.000000”
SET RAIDsunShafts “1.000000”
SET RAIDparticleDensity “50.000000”
SET RAIDparticleMTDensity “70.000000”
SET RAIDrefraction “1.000000”
SET RAIDOutlineEngineMode “1.000000”
SET RAIDLightMode “2.000000”
SET RAIDlodObjectCullSize “20.000000”
SET RAIDlodObjectCullDist “30.000000”
SET RAIDlodObjectMinSize “60.000000”
SET RAIDlodObjectFadeScale “90.000000”
SET componentTextureLevel “0.000000”
SET RAIDcomponentTextureLevel “0.000000”
SET weatherDensity “1.000000”
SET RAIDweatherDensity “1.000000”
SET graphicsTextureResolution “3.000000”
SET graphicsTextureFiltering “5.000000”
SET graphicsViewDistance “5”
SET graphicsEnvironmentDetail “5”
SET graphicsGroundClutter “5”
SET graphicsShadowQuality “3.000000”
SET graphicsParticleDensity “2.000000”
SET graphicsLightingQuality “3.000000”
SET graphicsOutlineMode “2.000000”
SET raidGraphicsTextureResolution “3.000000”
SET raidGraphicsTextureFiltering “5.000000”
SET raidGraphicsProjectedTextures “2.000000”
SET raidGraphicsEnvironmentDetail “5”
SET raidGraphicsGroundClutter “5”
SET raidGraphicsShadowQuality “3.000000”
SET raidGraphicsLiquidDetail “3.000000”
SET raidGraphicsSunshafts “2.000000”
SET raidGraphicsParticleDensity “2.000000”
SET raidGraphicsSSAO “2.000000”
SET raidGraphicsDepthEffects “3.000000”
SET raidGraphicsLightingQuality “3.000000”
SET raidGraphicsOutlineMode “2.000000”
SET accountName "Redhawkbadass13@Gmail.com"
SET accountList “!JACOBWILLETTE|”
SET playIntroMovie “7”
SET engineSurvey “4”
SET raidOrBattleCount “30”
SET mouseSpeed “1”
SET Gamma “1.000000”
SET Sound_OutputDriverName “Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)”
SET Sound_EnableErrorSpeech “0”
SET Sound_MusicVolume “1”
SET Sound_AmbienceVolume “1”
SET Sound_ZoneMusicNoDelay “1”
SET ffxAntiAliasingMode “3”
SET gameTip “101”
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor “1.8999999761581”
SET gxApi “D3D11”
SET Sound_MasterVolume “1”
SET consolidateBuffs “0”
SET characterFrameCollapsed “0”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestV2RecordCount “31389”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestV2HotfixCount “4”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveRecordCount “30817”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveHotfixCount “28”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveXEffectRecordCount “8601”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveXEffectHotfixCount “25”
SET CACHE-WGOB-GameObjectsRecordCount “59380”
SET CACHE-WGOB-GameObjectsHotfixCount “5”
SET statCategoriesCollapsed “bB”
SET uiScale “0.64999997615814”
SET mountJournalFilters “”
SET expandUpgradePanel “0”
SET Sound_SFXVolume “0.80000001192093”
SET Sound_OutputDriverIndex “3”
SET gxRefresh “50000/1000”
SET graphicsProjectedTextures “2.000000”
SET graphicsLiquidDetail “3.000000”
SET graphicsSunshafts “2.000000”
SET graphicsSSAO “2.000000”
SET graphicsDepthEffects “3.000000”
SET spellClutterRangeConstant “20.000000”
SET spellClutterRangeConstantRaid “20.000000”
This is what was in that file, I didn’t even see the SET SOUND_NumChannels that you had mentioned
It looks like the Cvars have been changed. I no longer have that setting as well. Let’s have a look at a DXDiag next we can get back to that sound setting later. Follow the instructions I posted above.
Can you also paste a copy of the Sound log. If you go to the Wow folder > retail folder > Logs folder > Sound file.
I have a very similar problem. When using a headset the sound quality is great, but when changing to speakers is frankly horrible. I though my speakers were damaged, but I found this thread and I want to see if you can help me, Tratt.