Sound Bug

[penilepunt 0]

Every time I play SimCity, the sound crashes. Not just in game sound, but all sound on my computer. As soon as I close the game, sound comes back. Have tried just about everything I can think of: updated/reinstalled drivers, restarted system, and checked all sound settings. I'm lucky to get an hour of play before it quits again. I talked to someone on EA live chat, and he said he had never heard of this problem. I sent a video of the sound copping out, and he said he would pass it on the the developers. It happened in the load screen while I was changing towns, but it seems to happen randomly. Anyone else had this problem? Any ideas? Thanks.

[Bennyedgehog 0]

My sound keeps bugging out too. The music will cut out and I will be left with the effects but they act strangly too. This can happen after 30 minutes or 3 hours.

[perafilozof 143]

Same here. From time to time the sound will simply cut off, or it will reverberate like I am hearing double. Sometimes is the effects that will shout off, sometimes its the music.

[GenXisT 127]

Yep... got this too.  and i'm pretty sure it was right after I plopped the police precinct.  seems the game can't handle all the sirens and then bugs out all the sounds.

This is DEFINITELY a big problem.

[savagemuppet 0]

+1

[Lurch_123 0]

Last night I had the same thing, didn't really notice it till later, I was on a call, and turned the music off. anyway after a couple of hours I had the game just repeat the same sounds over and over again. very frustrating, turned the music back on and no music came up.

[AusQB 2]

Yep... got this too.  and i'm pretty sure it was right after I plopped the police precinct.  seems the game can't handle all the sirens and then bugs out all the sounds.

This is DEFINITELY a big problem.

 

Yeah, I'm fairly sure it was the precinct, it happened for me as well right after I placed it. Not sure if it's actually an issue with the precinct or if it just coincidentally happened to be the building that pushed the sounds over the edge.

[honam1021 1]

Same issue, it appears that the sound engine has diffeculties handling the sounds produced by agents and messed up the sound output

[bandit4557 0]

 

Yep... got this too.  and i'm pretty sure it was right after I plopped the police precinct.  seems the game can't handle all the sirens and then bugs out all the sounds.

This is DEFINITELY a big problem.

 

Yeah, I'm fairly sure it was the precinct, it happened for me as well right after I placed it. Not sure if it's actually an issue with the precinct or if it just coincidentally happened to be the building that pushed the sounds over the edge.

 

its not the precinct. its the game in general. because i plopped a precinct and it worked fine. the sound just doesnt work for me

[duckbow 3]

I am getting this issue almost every game session, right around the 1 - 2 hour mark. Sometimes, it's a constant fire truck siren that doesn't go off, a constant car horn, or another building sound on repeat or "broken record" state.

 

The worst of this bug is sometimes when I query a building, like the trade depot, and the game plays the loudest, volume to the MAX, ear-piercing truck horn.  Even when I have volume for the entire game turned to low, this bug somehow overrides this.

 

Very annoying, and even dangerous, if you are playing with headphones on, like I do. I wince, each time I query the trade depot.

 

There are a few open tickets with Maxis about this issue, but most blame the user's setup/ sound card...

[Sodeka 2]

Same here, has a fix been foun ?

[vinny7447 0]

I have the same issue.  It just started this evening for me, and I do not have a police precinct.  It just randomly cuts out the music and occasionally loops the sound effects of a building until I click it again and then exit the building bubble.  Has there been any resolution to this issue yet?

[MarcusOrilius 7]

Same here... one set of sounds seems to persist (like schools, police, gambling, etc.) while everything else cuts out. Restarting the game resets the sound.

[Architechnid 186]

Once I updated to Windows 8.1 from 8.0, the sound for the game has been non-existent, from the time it starts up to the time I leave.  It affected videos and other things on the computer as well.  I believe it's an issue with the sound drivers or something, but haven't been able to fix the issue as of yet.