Possible fix for crackling audio

[CROSSEYED_JIM]

I looked all over for fixes for the irritating crackling audio glitch that crops up in RDR2 from time to time, which makes the game close to unplayable for me. None of the other fixes I've seen (running in DX 12, messing with the .ini file, playing with the audio-latency setting, etc.) seem to work, but I think I may have found a different one.

It's super basic, but going into control panel, disabling my default audio device (Corsair headphones), and then re-enabling the device seems to reliably make the glitch disappear.

Maybe someone else has already figured this out and I just missed it. But I'm posting it here in case it helps anyone out there.

[Noxsa]

you guys are not going to believe me BUT i'll state it anyways.
most audio issues can be prevented by grounding your computercase! the build op of static charge is a nono for audioboards, normaly there should be no static build op on your PC case but age and bad case design brings forth this issue.

i hear you ok but how to fix this, easy take a wire screw uit a screw, bend the wire around set screw and screw it back into the case, now lead that wire to any iron / steel grounded item like the central heating pipes or any other pipe that may be close, you could fix it to te grounded part of your wallcontact (not recomended if you don't know what's what)
but in general any iron item that is grounded will do.

now that your case is static free you should not have any audio issues and if you do then its more of a hardware issue and something is about to really break on you.

PS: don't reply me with that i'm crazy, if you don't want to do it or try it fine by me.

[FakeyNamey]

I found a fix that's working for me, after trying all kinds of stuff.

I'm on a Focusrite 2i2 sound card. Like many posts recommended, I set it to 44.1khz and 16 buffer size. This helped, but I still had problems. THEN, on a whim, I went into RDR2's Audio Settings and I put the Latency there all the way up (full gray bar)...

This fixed it! No idea why or how, but yaaayyy!! Hope this works for some other people.

[Starbarian]

Another fix works for me on older machines on any games.
Try closing your web browser, like Firefox, chrome, IE... etc.
Sometimes those app would fight for your sound card resource .

[Murphe]

weird fix,
discovered i wasn't running the game in Fullscreen mode.
Had it in borderless windowed mode.

[Connie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.