Environment and music audio cutting out at random.

[THE MATTHEW MANIFESTO]

Background sound effects like rain, storms and combat and background music cuts in and out randomly. The game runs stable otherwise.

[Baron01]

Yeah, the game is rough. Minor audio issues like this can break immersion. There are far worse issues related to audio such as completely busted occlusion, 3d audio not working properly on stereo speakers and there were a lot more but some were already fixed.

[Kleerex]

Disconnecting and reconnecting the headset temporarily fixes this. Definitely a bug.

I tend to experience this with my wired USB headset but not the wireless one.

[THE MATTHEW MANIFESTO]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Yeah, the game is rough. Minor audio issues like this can break immersion. There are far worse issues related to audio such as completely busted occlusion, 3d audio not working properly on stereo speakers and there were a lot more but some were already fixed.

It's a damn shame, too. It was running nearly flawlessly until a certain point. Right now, I am in the swamps area, but the audio issues were happening before that (but not nearly as much). The vibe of this game's world is freaking amazing, but the audio issue really ruined it. I love hiding from the rain and eating virtual sausage and just taking in the atmosphere of the Zone.

[RodroG]

I found that some mods may also cause or exacerbate this issue. For example, the last mod I used that caused it was the one that removed the vignette effect on crouch (tested after Patch 1.0.3). Uninstalling the mod resolved the cutting-out sound issue immediately. That said, the vanilla game definitely has sound issues/bugs, such as the mentioned 3D Spatial Audio not working properly with headsets or stereo speakers, and subpar sound occlusion.

[DeadBeat]

It was more pronounced for me before the patches but it's still there sometimes just not as often as it was before.

[RadioactiveRubberPants]

Originally posted by THE MATTHEW MANIFESTO:

Originally posted by Baron01:

Yeah, the game is rough. Minor audio issues like this can break immersion. There are far worse issues related to audio such as completely busted occlusion, 3d audio not working properly on stereo speakers and there were a lot more but some were already fixed.

It's a damn shame, too. It was running nearly flawlessly until a certain point. Right now, I am in the swamps area, but the audio issues were happening before that (but not nearly as much). The vibe of this game's world is freaking amazing, but the audio issue really ruined it. I love hiding from the rain and eating virtual sausage and just taking in the atmosphere of the Zone. :DukeBarrel::MrFoster::mllrrad::water:

I've played for 40+ hours now, JUST passed the swamps (clear sky quest) and now this is happening to me as well. Random audio clips just cut off which super sucks because the environment is very immersive and this completely ruins it.

Use ZXR here, didnt' have this issue at all prior to somewhere between 1.1.1 and 1.1.3 patches. I didn't have this issue starting either so I'm trying to restart and see if it happens again. I've played previously for 5+ hours with no issues.

Now after one of these latest patches, I've just played for 4-5 hours and it began after leaving the swamp area and finishing up the dialog with the 2 dudes, I fought off the Monolith and the other guys. Those were both green checked. Then I deselected the main quest and talked to the merchant at Skavodsk to do a side quest to find an artifact accompained by fast traveling to garbage. It didn't happen until after fast traveling from Skavodsk ship to garbage scrap heap. I ran from there and audio was cutting out every like 10-20 sec. Very odd.

Exiting the game and restarting it fixed it for now.