Audio Choppy in game after main menu

[uncleshal]

So I am getting choppy audio when I full boot up into the game my setup is a RTX 4070 super, AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8 core processor, 32 GB DDR4 Ram, & the game is installed on my main NVME SSD. I didn't use to have this problem when I played it with my RTX 3060. I did benchmark it when I first got my 4070 super & there was no audio problems but now I'm getting nothing but choppy cutting in & out audio. I have try switch it from both Direct X12 & Valkun & that does nothing to fix the audio. I can't even switch it from Unlock to lock cause when I do & exit the setting it goes back to locked. Please help. Don't know if I need to adjust something in my BIOS or update my drivers but this audio problem only happens with RDR2

[AMD Ryzen 7 5200HX 2.9GHz]

I can suggest a few things:

1. Remove system.xml under C Documents,Rockstar Games,RDR2 (in game graphics will be reset to defaults)
2. Control Panel>Sound>Playback tab, Speakers>Advanced tab> choose 16bit 48Hz apply and ok
3. Right click other sound devices if any on playback tab, disable
4. Update sound drivers from Realtek website or whatever your OEM is,

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Outdated Audio Driver?

Are you using Realtek Onboard Audio or using the GPU HDMI/DP Audio?

Ensure the Audio Settings in WinOS for the device you are using are not set above 24bit / 48Khz

Realtek no longer offers stand-alone Drivers. Get them from the Motherboard maker's support website.

Update BIOS, AMD Ryzen Chipset Driver as well as your OS.

Disable Windows Game Mode and Xbox Gamebar

[CrEaToXx]

Ignore just about every proposal you're going to read here or anywhere else on the internet. There's only one way to fix their audio crackling up. Exit the game, reenter, see if the crackling is gone. If so good, if not rinse and repeat. Occasionally restarting the game won't help and you have to restart your whole computer.

I fought with this for about two weeks but it will always randomly return no matter what. It doesn't really matter to me anymore to be honest. I just made my peace with having to ocassionally restart the game. Just prepare yourself for even more minor bugs they never cared about fixing.

At least now I know why this is the only game I know that comes shipped with an ingame audio latency slider, telling me they tried but probably ultimatively failed to fix it as well. It's probably just a bad console port and they can't be bothered to ship higher quality audio files for PC.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I've never had that issue on any PC I've used, but then again I don't rely on Realtek junk onboard audio. I use USB DAC w/ AMP

[XOLiD]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I've never had that issue on any PC I've used, but then again I don't rely on Realtek junk onboard audio. I use USB DAC w/ AMP

Yeah I have the Logitech PRO X headset that connects through a USB dongle and in almost 1500 hours I've never gotten these weird audio issues either.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

This won't change, and RDR2 is not the only game that has this issue.
They just keep putting Realtek junk on Motherboards and Laptops because they figure over the years people would have gotten the hint by now that if you feel it's not good enough, you'll buy something better. And you should. If you use HDMI, DP or USB; then you won't be using the Realtek any longer.

It could also be because of how so many users are also lazy and are using the drivers supplied by Windows Updates instead of installing the correct official, fully featured drivers; not to mention better up to date ones.

[CrEaToXx]

I'm using a Soundblaster GX6 on my 3.0 USB port, so it's not audio jack or Realtek exclusive.