We’re about to soft launch our next game, and we’re hitting all kinds of audio crackling problems. I removed all of the sounds, except a single generated test tone, and it still hitches a bunch.
Has anyone seen problems like this? Maybe steps we can take to track it down or minimize the problem?
Edit: Seems to happen predominately on the MBPs in the office.
I have no idea what is going on, but I got a bit of this myself, and there are some SERIOUS issues with Epic Tower Defense on shockwave.com. Once in a while, the sound will pop loudly in the left speaker and then disappear from there entirely. Pressing the mute button (from either mute state) or pulling the volume down to or up from mute will force the same pop, but that’s all I can get sometimes until one of two things happen: 1. Quit Safari 2. Restart computer. Neither situation is nice, but of course, the former is preferable.
And this is with a Core Duo MacBook Pro, which already has the worst “sound system” I’ve ever heard.