Sound Delay (Half Second) RESOLVED

[Holysocks1000]

When playing Zomboid on my Laptop, all sounds seem to have a half second delay.
I have tried on a workshop modded steam copy of Project Zomboid, as well as an unmodded copy from GOG only to have the same result.

Laptop specs:
GPU: 3070
RAM: 16 gb
CPU: 10th gen i7

(I had tried the game on my desktop and do not have any issues. Other games on my laptop do not have this issue. I am having a hard time identifying the issue.

[Beard]

Tried playing the game in Windowed mode for example to check whether that would cause the delay? And are you playing the sound from the speakers or through any other devices?

[Holysocks1000]

Hi!
I have tried playing in bordered and windowed as well. The delay is constant throughout the menu UI and the game itself.
I am playing the sound from the laptop's speakers using the generic audio drivers that Windows update pulls for the hardware.

[Beard]

Can you share your logs.zip file found in C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid?
You can use any file sharing website of your choice or a temporary one like tmp.ninja for example.

[Holysocks1000]

Originally posted by Beard:

Can you share your logs.zip file found in C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid?
You can use any file sharing website of your choice or a temporary one like tmp.ninja for example.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoZ1dbFLpx4cmiRsEHs7TXX9FSST?e=dlzMIZ

Reinstalled and ran a clean save for a bit. Workshop mods are installed but not active in this instance. I can run an instance in the GOG version of the game with a new user/zomboid/logs.zip if necessary. (Same sound bug)

[Holysocks1000]

Originally posted by Beard:

Tried playing the game in Windowed mode for example to check whether that would cause the delay? And are you playing the sound from the speakers or through any other devices?

Hey, beard!
I checked some older games, and tested different things like youtube and system sounds. It's pretty mixed what has this issue (newer apps don't seem to have the issue).

I tried some logitech headphones while running zomboid on this laptop and do not have the issue. So I am reasonably certain that this is probably more of a hardware/driver issue with some games.

I looked up an audio/video sync video on youtube and can confirm that THAT is at least in sync and I am not just crazy. But I can confirm that this does go beyond just zomboid, so I'm not sure what we can really isolate here.

In any case, thank you for your time!

[Holysocks1000]

If it helps at all in identifying if it has something to do with the sound engine: system sounds and the older games have the delay through realtek audio devices (Hardware speakers and audio jack) on my machine, whereas browser based youtube, and newer games do not seem to.

Last Update and edit (did not want to keep spamming this thread):
I ended up going into my speaker's properties and disabling audio enhancements. Worked like a charm!

[Beard]

Interesting, thanks for sharing the audio enhancement fix, I dont think I would have guessed that that would be a fix in this situation.