2011-11-05 08:33 , edited 2011-11-05 19:10 by PhuzzyB

So this was the last little bug that was absolutely plaguing my BF3 gameplay experience. I had fixed the map change bug, got it running a lot more smoothly on my mid-range GTX 550 Ti graphics card by disabling Phyx, and the Battlefield 3.exe is not responding crash is not happening nearly as frequently as it was before...



But I was still really upset, because no matter what, mid combat, I would lose a good majority of the sounds except for extreme distance sounds. This also took a TON of fun out of driving tanks, because they we're silent.



Well, after a LOT of digging around to know avail, I finally found a fix that definitively worked for me from a comment on a youtube video posting about the same problem.



Within the C:\Documents\Battlefield 3\Settings\PROF_SAVE_profile .txt document that everyone should have, there is an option at the very top called GstAudio.AudioQuality. This is, as I have found, an independent variable outside of the normal HI-FI, War Tapes, Headphones, etc options that are available to us. It was defaulted to 0, and I changed this to 4. Instantly, all my sound glitches are COMPLETELY gone, and I am enjoying this game immensely now.



If you are having similar issues, I can'g guarantee this will work for you like it did for me, but if it does, please post your resuls in this thread.