Crashing in WoW

[Malladine]

Yep, it crashes on me. I get between 30mins and 3hrs everytime before it crashes (locks with repetitive sound) or I lose sound altogether to high pitched squealing but can still play OR sound disappears and the game becomes unplayably jerky but doesn't lock.

Course I ordered a new sound card, same as my wife's: Santa Cruz. Hopefully that will fix it (arrives today).

Anyone else experience similar shenanigans? if so how did you fix it?

 

[gsaldivar]

You can try deleting the following directories (inside your game folder) - they will be recreated when you relaunch the game:

/WTF
/WTB
/Interface

 

[Malladine]

hmm, alright thanks!

 

[gsaldivar]

You can also try looking in the Event Viewer to see if there are any unusual errors resulting from misconfigured/malfunctioning hardware.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427

 

[Cheetah8799]

I have some sound bugs on my rig in WoW. Mostly staticy noise and sometimes can't hear anything. Using the built in audio on my nForce2 board. I think maybe it's a hardware or driver issue for me though, since it started after a Windows re-install, and I get it in multiple games...

 

[Malladine]

i asked in /1 about others having the same problem and those who responded in the affirmative had integrated sound. Unfortunately, I have a pci sound card, Guillemot Fortissimo III. It's been exemplary until now.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: Malladine
i asked in /1 about others having the same problem and those who responded in the affirmative had integrated sound. Unfortunately, I have a pci sound card, Guillemot Fortissimo III. It's been exemplary until now.

No problems at all with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS no locks no crashes perfect 5.1 surround sound in wow.

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Malladine
i asked in /1 about others having the same problem and those who responded in the affirmative had integrated sound. Unfortunately, I have a pci sound card, Guillemot Fortissimo III. It's been exemplary until now.

No problems at all with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS no locks no crashes perfect 5.1 surround sound in wow.

Same as my wife and her Santa Cruz, so I have hope