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post #21 of 64
6/27/06 at 1:56am
i just thought of something maybe its a audio codec? try a codec pack from free-codecs.com and good luck with that problem ill be back to check in see if its resolved
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post #22 of 64
6/27/06 at 9:23am
Thread Starter 
Alright thanks!

And what exactl does an audio codec do? Is it like a driver or?

Thanks!
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post #23 of 64
6/27/06 at 11:03am
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Originally Posted by Inspiron9100
Only in WoW...

Yes, with headphones...

I've already contacted Dell, and they have crap for advice.

I cannot be without the laptop.

Only with headphones?
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post #24 of 64
6/27/06 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by Inspiron9100
Alright thanks!

And what exactl does an audio codec do? Is it like a driver or?

Thanks!

its a software driver so you can play other audio files and helps with the audio codecs you already have. (mp3, wav, etc)


GL man
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post #25 of 64
6/27/06 at 1:27pm
Have you tried uninstalling the hardware in Device Manager and rebooting windows?
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post #26 of 64
6/27/06 at 2:47pm
It's NOT YOUR SYSTEM. This problem has occurred ever since patch 1.10. It usually only happens for me if I've alt-tabbed out of the game and then go back in. It's really annoying, but it's Blizzard and their patches, so what can you do. I've been playing this game for a year on my XPS Gen 2. (specs in sig) and it only started doing it since patch 1.10. If I play music in the background, there's no crackling at all. It's JUST WoW.
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post #27 of 64
6/27/06 at 2:49pm
i know what you mean, now that i started playing WoW i cant get enough
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post #28 of 64
6/27/06 at 3:08pm
My roomate plays WOW and has the same problem on his desktop. He as top of the line everything in the brands he likes, AMD, ATI, even the case and power supply.

He went throught the whole format/rebuild process and had the same results. He said one day, he noticed there was no crackling in WOW. The only thing he changed was the setting for ATI crossfire. He turned off crossfire so he could run his video through 1 video card instead of 2. He said he re-enabled crossfire and the crackeling came back. He waited for the next driver release and that took care of the issue. He can run with 1 card or both and there's no crackeling or noise.

I have an E1705. I bought the usb external sound blaster and have good sound through that. I've never noticed the issue. I play BF2 and sometimes hook up the plantronics gamepro1 headset directly to the laptop. It has its own DSP though (processes its sound). No problems with that either.

It just sounde like some drivers are fighting for resources. I'm staying away from World of Crackcraft. I can't afford the addiction right now.
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post #29 of 64
7/5/06 at 1:17am
Now, i have the same problem.

I have read all your replies, i've tried reinstall drivers, reformat laptop, install K-Lite Codec Pack, installed the new Toshiba Tool - even tried running without a driver and with drivers wich i knew didnt match my card.

I still have the stupid crackling.

With headphones. Without headphones. In WoW. In Mediaplayer. WoW is even lagging a little bit every 3 seconds or so because of it. I cant hear music on my comp anymore...

Im going crazy. Please do help me...
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post #30 of 64
7/5/06 at 1:39am
Thread Starter 
I solved it by:

Uninstalling audio drivers, under device manager, and I've never had the problem since...

Not sure if this is good/bad for the computer, but it's the only I could get to work.
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post #31 of 64
7/5/06 at 8:45am
I dont exactly have audio "drivers" but a line of codecs;

Sound, video and game controllers:
Audio Codecs
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Drivers
Media Controle Devices
Sigmatel High Defenition Audio Codec
Video Codecs

Which one(s) did you remove?
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post #32 of 64
7/5/06 at 9:12am
Driver: A piece of code that tells how a OS/Software to operate a piece of hardware.
Codec: A Piece of software that is used to COde or DECode data.

Its not possible to have a sound card working without any driver, so I assume when you guys say you removed the driver, I assume windows picked it up again and installed it automatically, as other wise you cannot have sound at all (unless you choosed the driver to re-install afterwards)

The Crackling sound you people speak of is cause by DirectX based drivers, it happens in several games, and is mostly cause by IRQ and Hardware interrupts, and it is a build up, not something that happens straight away. nVidia Drivers are known to cause this in the RF online game for example, after pro-long period. Re-boot normaly solves that one.
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post #33 of 64
7/5/06 at 9:46am
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Re boot does not solve this problem

I went into "Audio Codecs" and click "Uninstall driver" you get the warning, then proceed. I restarted, and haven't had the problem yet.

This was about 2+ weeks ago.

Not sure if this helps?

I know what a driver does, just telling you what worked for me.
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post #34 of 64
7/5/06 at 9:48am
Had a similar problem as you when I had FRAPS activated, everytime I pressed some buttons controlled by fraps in any game the crackling sound started and I had to exit fraps/disable audio in it for it to stop. Probably not the same thing as yours, but it almost made me call dell.
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post #35 of 64
7/5/06 at 10:11am
Thread Starter 
This is weird, many different people all having the same crackling noise, while playing different games...

Do we all have the same sound hardware?

Same drivers?

Has to be something in common.
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post #36 of 64
7/5/06 at 10:19am
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Originally Posted by Inspiron9100
This is weird, many different people all having the same crackling noise, while playing different games...

Do we all have the same sound hardware?

Same drivers?

Has to be something in common.

Yes the common things we are all using is DirectX API, its the layer under our drivers.
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post #37 of 64
7/5/06 at 6:32pm
OK, maybe i'm just very newbish, but i just installed DirectX 9.0c (newest) and all the crackling disappeared... o.O
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post #38 of 64
7/6/06 at 2:39am
sounds like bad audio codec drivers to me maybe dell has bad drivers
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post #39 of 64
7/6/06 at 2:45pm
Well... this crackling thing... Now that I think of it I've had it before too, but never consistantly. If I keep getting it, trust me, I'll find a permenant fix
Glad you got your big problem fixxed, keep us updated
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post #40 of 64
7/10/06 at 1:16pm
I had this problem after the 1.9 patch was released on my desktop. The desktop is/was running an Nforce2 board with onboard sound. Drove me nuts with reformats, driver uninstalls-installs, and the like. Finally, I just didn't play WoW for a couple of weeks and came back after 1.10, and no problem.

Blizzard and their damn patches!
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