Audio crackling?

[MegaMan]

Anyone else getting audio crackling/breaking issues? Any known fix?

[Some Random Guy]

i have the same problem. audio is mostly fine in open areas but in the city it's horrible, cuts out like crazy. can't find a fix at all

[MegaMan]

Bumping this, I'm getting a literal headache from it while playing...

[upuaut2]

yes same here

[iqstow]

yes, I have the same issue in town when my cpu hits 100%

[sonycman]

Why no specs? Are your CPUs weak ones?

[MacLe0d]

I guess it's weak CPU plus integrated audio combo.

[MegaMan]

I'm running a 3080 GPU and 5950 CPU. The patch doesn't seem to have solved the problem.

[MegaMan]

Bumping once more...the issue happens everywhere, not just in towns.

[MegaMan]

I don't think there's any in-game audio setting that fixes it. I've tried every audio option and it happens on all of them. Will keep updating with things I've tried.

[sonycman]

Try to change your audio output device, switch to another USB port, etc.

[MegaMan]

No luck. Tried some other USB ports, and tried some other games. Problem still persists and only in this game.

[Golden Boy]

same here, audio cuts in city

[IchigoMait]

It's because of your integrated audio device + cpu + motherboard combination and a heavy usage of your cpu, on emulators peeps fix the crackling sound by increasing the audio delay, but that's not a possibility on pc, besides only with better audio apps than realtek, but those only help if you're not using the root problem in the first place where you can't switch the audio delay.

Either you switch them out, or you don't use your integrated audio device for audio.

I'm using external audio device X3 to get rid of crackling, but it sometimes can get through for few milliseconds, if there is no ambient or constant audio present and the audio suddenly starts, like a notification sound or something.

The issue happens with most modern pc's, every time I got a newer and better motherboard and cpu, the audio crackling got worse, in some bioses you have some audio noise echo settings, but it helps only a little, mostly you just have to restart the pc to fix it temporarily, or I guess another solution is to undervolt/underclock your cpu.

[MegaMan]

I feel like if that was the cause, there'd be a LOT more people having this issue. I'm wondering if this is part of the terrible optimization for this port, although I haven't experienced any of the other issues most people seem to be having with slowdown. I'll try limiting the game's CPU usage in task manager and keep trying tweaks to see if any of them have an effect.

[FallenSnow]

The audio cracking noise is really annoying, I’m rocking with 7800x3d + 5080, even with several audio interface or DAC I plugged my headset in, still having this issue (with sound card I can notice a slightly lesser cracking noise, but it still appears sometimes

I tried plugging my HD820 to my RodeCaster pro II (audio)monitor output, same cracking noise appear in Yokoyama (sidenote: my CPU is cooking at ~70% usage in the town (co-25))
then I switched to my PCIE soundcard (Creative AE-9) still same cracking noise from time to time
and lastly, I plugged my headset for console (Arctis Nova Pro + GameDAC gen2) still the same cracking noise
still can't figure a way out to stop this issue sadly

although the only upside is I didn't encounter those slowmo issue probably due to I’m simply brute forcing it
but I’m having hard time to convince my friend to play the game as there is still unholy amount of issue for majority of player