Clean Tone Bug? I need help

[NappasRampage]

For the past week my game has been having a bug where my tone changes to a clean tone and cannot be switched back; forcing me to restart the game. I've been trying to troubleshooting this bug, but have had no success. I've seen other discussions with the same issue, and they were told that their PC doesn't meet the minimum requirments. I current PC specs include a GTX 760 2GB graphics card, and a Intel I5 3600k overclocked to 4.2 ghz. I've been running this game with no issues since it came out, so I doubt that is the issue. and yes this bug is happening while playing any songs (Official or DLC or CDLC)

Also my game crashes approx. 20% of the time when loading up the main menu since this bug started happening.

Here is a list of the things I've tried to resolve this issue
1. Tried using a different Real Tone Cable
2. Removed all custom songs and D3DX9_42.dll
3. Reinstalled the game on the same drive
4. Reinstalled the game on a different drive
5. Lowered Graphical Settings
6. Increased the Audioengine setting from 2 up to 10 (In increments of 2)
7. Used a different guitar
8. Made sure all drivers are up-to-date

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[NappasRampage]

Yeah, I went through the whole PDF. My Realtone Cable and Speakers are setup up exactly as the guide states. My realtone cable is plugged directly into my Motherboard. I experimented with the MaxOutPutBufferSize trying different numbers from 0 up to 1024. I tried setting ForceDirectXSink=1, and I even tried setting Win32UltraLowLatencyMode to 0. Nothing is working.

[RangerSop]

The only times I get a clean tone when playing a song is when my Real Tone Cable needs to be adjusted slightly. I know for a fact that it's plugged in correctly, I just have to wiggle the cable sometimes for the overdrive to kick in again.

That's just my experience with a clean tone from nowhere because my cable is fairly old and may be damaged in some way, but I can't see anything wrong with it other than the jack being curved slightly.

Hope you discover the issue :)

[NappasRampage]

Just tried that, sadly no success. Thanks for the suggestion though

[caldaar]

Typically it is CDLC users that have this issue, but looks like you tried removing that. Have you tried removing the overclocking? You might have overheating issues that are starting to occur from those settings causing problems.

Also, look at any other apps that are running in the startup. might have a resource issue where another app has a memory leak.

[caldaar]

Also, could try re-installing directx and visual C... Those install files are located under the _CommonRedist folder in the RS install directory.

[Melvin Eugene Punymier]

I believe I've cracked the cause of this. It's been happening more recently. With a 1300+ library, I'm putting time into playing every song and every arrangement in my library. However, when I find a song I don't really like to play, I exit. And I exit with a tone for some reason. And now, this is specific to Rocksmith. The tones, do not change. If you are quick, you are stuck with the tone from a song, when you go to learn another song. And because that tone hasn't changed even when you're sat on the learn a song menu, waiting is the only way to fix it.


If the tone is locked, just play an open string and look to see if there's a sound wave animation from the cabinets or on the side.

How to prevent it. Be patient.


It is specifically an issue to do with Rocksmith and not the user. I have a perfectly capable PC, but for some dumbass reason. The developers thought fancy transitions should be prioristised over performance. And this bug has been around since launch.

[caldaar]

Good theory, except like I said, CDLC users are the only ones that tend to have this issue. And considering that RS doesn't have 1300+ songs as of yet. (They are getting close.... about 1180, but not there yet)

So, the trick is what changed that removing those and the crack isn't fixing?

[EarthRockerR]

No CDLC used here and I just started noticing this as well. I have to be playing for more than an hour to notice it and restart does fix it and I just use it to go take a break.

[MTZIGG]

This solved it on two PC's that I had tested RS on that had this problem
It did fail on a laptop I tried. Please let me know your outcome

1.Open System by clicking the Start button >right-clicking Computer, and then clicking
Properties.
2. In the left pane, click Advanced system settings Administrator permission may be required.
If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4.Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, click Change.
Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box.
Under Drive[Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.
Click Custom size, type a new size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB)
box, click Set, and then click OK.
NOTE: I set the Initial size the same as the Max size it shows you the max you can go for your
system .You have to restart your PC

[NappasRampage]

Taiream, I think we are having different bugs because most of the time my tone will go clean during a song then stay clean. or even sometimes I'm in the main menu playing with distortion then when I start a song it goes clean.

Caldaar, Ubisoft support also told me to reinstall Direct X and Visual C. Sadly the bug still is happening though.

MTZIGG, thanks for the suggestion, I tried that and the bug is still happening.

I appreciate all of the suggestions. I might try reinstalling windows. Fingers crossed.