Audio crackling

[AlHouine]

Good morning,
I have the sound of my game cracking a few times.
I have my drivers up to date but that doesn't fix the problem.

When I do an action (most often with the force, attracting objects for puzzles) I get the sound that cracks.

Do you also have this problem and have you managed to solve it?

[Vudue]

I noticed this problem yesterday as well. I thought it was related to my streaming because at first I only heard it in my stream audio but now I'm playing this morning not streaming to twitch and I hear the static noise in-game a lot more harsh. Especially when going into meditation or any scenes with heavy base. My in-game audio setting are set lower than default so i don't understand where this issue is coming from.

[PostalGibbon]

Do you use headphones or speakers? Sound card or some integrated chip MB or GPU HDMI sound?

Cheap headphones and louder volume will brake the sound if using full dynamic range sound options you have to use headphone sound mode.

Another possibility is poor shield to ground in your electric socket sound cards are know to suffer from electric magnetic distortions inside your pc case.

I have STX Essence sound card linked to Bayerdynamic headphone amplifier and sony XM4 headphones. Not a single sound crack in the game. I have completed it in 65 hours.

[Sundancer]

only have onboard sound on my B450 Gaming Plus Max and not hearing any soundcracks either

[AlHouine]

Originally posted by PostalGibbon:

Do you use headphones or speakers? Sound card or some integrated chip MB or GPU HDMI sound?

Cheap headphones and louder volume will brake the sound if using full dynamic range sound options you have to use headphone sound mode.

Another possibility is poor shield to ground in your electric socket sound cards are know to suffer from electric magnetic distortions inside your pc case.

I have STX Essence sound card linked to Bayerdynamic headphone amplifier and sony XM4 headphones. Not a single sound crack in the game. I have completed it in 65 hours.

I use the headphone mode well.

I use the beyerdynamic dt 770 pro 80 ohm combo with an yamaha ag03 mixer.

According to you, this could be due to my electrical plug, I only have the problem on the game.

[PostalGibbon]

Originally posted by AlHouine:

Originally posted by PostalGibbon:

Do you use headphones or speakers? Sound card or some integrated chip MB or GPU HDMI sound?

Cheap headphones and louder volume will brake the sound if using full dynamic range sound options you have to use headphone sound mode.

Another possibility is poor shield to ground in your electric socket sound cards are know to suffer from electric magnetic distortions inside your pc case.

I have STX Essence sound card linked to Bayerdynamic headphone amplifier and sony XM4 headphones. Not a single sound crack in the game. I have completed it in 65 hours.

I use the headphone mode well.

I use the beyerdynamic dt 770 pro 80 ohm combo with an yamaha ag03 mixer.

According to you, this could be due to my electrical plug, I only have the problem on the game.

No probably not electric plug/poor grounding if it does only with Jedi survivor. That yamaha ag03 is usb sound decoder/mixer so should not be grounding issue. Maybe there are compatibility problems.

Can you example try to use GPU hdmi sound or integrated sound chip of your motherboard (realtek?) If you use one of the above does it produce same crackling sound?

[Vudue]

Originally posted by PostalGibbon:

Originally posted by AlHouine:

I use the headphone mode well.

I use the beyerdynamic dt 770 pro 80 ohm combo with an yamaha ag03 mixer.

According to you, this could be due to my electrical plug, I only have the problem on the game.

No probably not electric plug/poor grounding if it does only with Jedi survivor. That yamaha ag03 is usb sound decoder/mixer so should not be grounding issue. Maybe there are compatibility problems.

Can you example try to use GPU hdmi sound or integrated sound chip of your motherboard (realtek?) If you use one of the above does it produce same crackling sound?

I'm getting this same issue using either audio setting. I've gotten the static from speakers and headphones. It's picked up when streaming via stream labs as well

[NRay7882]

I recently built a new PC and was having crackling / popping in the audio occur with all three games I first tried playing: Jedi Survivor, Red Dead Online and Cyberpunk: 2077. The games would play fine for roughly 20 minutes then the noise would start to occur over a period of 1-2 minutes with it gradually getting worse. Eventually, the noise stops and goes back to normal, but repeats this issue over and over.

I tried a number of different fixes related to the video card like Uninstalling Nvidia Shadowplay / Geforce Experience, enabling Message Signaled Interrupts... none of these helped. My issue was specific to the audio sample rate / bit depth. When playing using my Corsair Virtuoso XT Wireless headset, the default value is "2 channel, 24 bit, 48000 Hz". I changed the frequency to 44100 Hz instead, since doing this the audio noise has stopped occurring in all three games.

You can try changing these settings by right-clicking on the speaker in your Windows taskbar tray and choose Sound Settings > More Sound Settings > Playback tab, right-click your primary device for audio and choose Properties from the list. The sample rate & bit depth is under the Advanced tab.

[PostalGibbon]

Vudue and Alhouine do you have air conditioner or air heat pump in same room where you use pc and is it on when you use pc?
I remember watching some streamer and he had strange problem with humming sound distortion when streaming.
In the end it was air conditioner being turned on same time when streaming causing distortion to sound. it's a wild shot but worth checking out if you own those devices.

[PostalGibbon]

Originally posted by NRay7882:

I recently built a new PC and was having crackling / popping in the audio occur with all three games I first tried playing: Jedi Survivor, Red Dead Online and Cyberpunk: 2077. The games would play fine for roughly 20 minutes then the noise would start to occur over a period of 1-2 minutes with it gradually getting worse. Eventually, the noise stops and goes back to normal, but repeats this issue over and over.

I tried a number of different fixes related to the video card like Uninstalling Nvidia Shadowplay / Geforce Experience, enabling Message Signaled Interrupts... none of these helped. My issue was specific to the audio sample rate / bit depth. When playing using my Corsair Virtuoso XT Wireless headset, the default value is "2 channel, 24 bit, 48000 Hz". I changed the frequency to 44100 Hz instead, since doing this the audio noise has stopped occurring in all three games.

You can try changing these settings by right-clicking on the speaker in your Windows taskbar tray and choose Sound Settings > More Sound Settings > Playback tab, right-click your primary device for audio and choose Properties from the list. The sample rate & bit depth is under the Advanced tab.

That is really strange because 48khz is default sample rate of all windows sound activity. Only when playing flacs with foobar2k or audio cds you would change sample to 44,1khz. and even that is "golden ear" territory.

Maybe sound device you use has native sample rate of 44,1khz and everything windows forces your sound device to resample to 48khz and causing distortions.

But good tip and worth of a try to change that sample rate and see does it have any effect.

[Vudue]

Originally posted by PostalGibbon:

Vudue and Alhouine do you have air conditioner or air heat pump in same room where you use pc and is it on when you use pc?
I remember watching some streamer and he had strange problem with humming sound distortion when streaming.
In the end it was air conditioner being turned on same time when streaming causing distortion to sound. it's a wild shot but worth checking out if you own those devices.

I do not. I have noticed that this crackling issue starts about 8-12 minutes into gameplay. When I quit the game and reboot it, same issue.. 8-12 min of play then crackling.

[AlHouine]

Originally posted by NRay7882:

I recently built a new PC and was having crackling / popping in the audio occur with all three games I first tried playing: Jedi Survivor, Red Dead Online and Cyberpunk: 2077. The games would play fine for roughly 20 minutes then the noise would start to occur over a period of 1-2 minutes with it gradually getting worse. Eventually, the noise stops and goes back to normal, but repeats this issue over and over.

I tried a number of different fixes related to the video card like Uninstalling Nvidia Shadowplay / Geforce Experience, enabling Message Signaled Interrupts... none of these helped. My issue was specific to the audio sample rate / bit depth. When playing using my Corsair Virtuoso XT Wireless headset, the default value is "2 channel, 24 bit, 48000 Hz". I changed the frequency to 44100 Hz instead, since doing this the audio noise has stopped occurring in all three games.

You can try changing these settings by right-clicking on the speaker in your Windows taskbar tray and choose Sound Settings > More Sound Settings > Playback tab, right-click your primary device for audio and choose Properties from the list. The sample rate & bit depth is under the Advanced tab.

It is impossible to adjust this with a mixer, the option is greyed out

Originally posted by PostalGibbon:

Originally posted by AlHouine:

I use the headphone mode well.

I use the beyerdynamic dt 770 pro 80 ohm combo with an yamaha ag03 mixer.

According to you, this could be due to my electrical plug, I only have the problem on the game.

No probably not electric plug/poor grounding if it does only with Jedi survivor. That yamaha ag03 is usb sound decoder/mixer so should not be grounding issue. Maybe there are compatibility problems.

Can you example try to use GPU hdmi sound or integrated sound chip of your motherboard (realtek?) If you use one of the above does it produce same crackling sound?

I'm going to try this today and report back here.

Originally posted by PostalGibbon:

Vudue and Alhouine do you have air conditioner or air heat pump in same room where you use pc and is it on when you use pc?
I remember watching some streamer and he had strange problem with humming sound distortion when streaming.
In the end it was air conditioner being turned on same time when streaming causing distortion to sound. it's a wild shot but worth checking out if you own those devices.

No I don't have any of that in my room where there is the computer

[AlHouine]

Same result with another headset connected directly to the motherboard

[PostalGibbon]

Originally posted by Vudue:

Originally posted by PostalGibbon:

Vudue and Alhouine do you have air conditioner or air heat pump in same room where you use pc and is it on when you use pc?
I remember watching some streamer and he had strange problem with humming sound distortion when streaming.
In the end it was air conditioner being turned on same time when streaming causing distortion to sound. it's a wild shot but worth checking out if you own those devices.

I do not. I have noticed that this crackling issue starts about 8-12 minutes into gameplay. When I quit the game and reboot it, same issue.. 8-12 min of play then crackling.

Well i'm running out of ideas but that 8-12 minutes to start of sound crackling sounds like hardware warming up and causing distortion.

Also does you pc meet hardware reqs of the game (example game runs out of main memory or video memory and starts to write buffer in to hard drive.

What happens if you disable sound device and play SW:JS without sound do you still start hear static distortion in headphones after 8-12min?

Have you tried some kind of stress test for pc (3dmark,furmark,O.C.C.T full burn) run 8-12 min mark put music running same time do you get distortions? or start hearing distortion even without any sound output?

And last thing your headphones do you have right Gain setting in headphone out versus headphone Impedance? ( usually problem is low volume in < more than 150 ohm cans other way can cause anomalies if having high Gain and low impedance cans >32 ohms or lower).

This just wild goose chase if this is only game causing problems

[AlHouine]

I don't have this 8-12 minute problem.
I have an audio crackle even when I pull a rope with force for example