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SHMIZZLE Mar 25, 2023 @ 5:41pm
Audio cracking
Game runs pretty good but i keep getting some random audio crackling sounds through my headphones. Anyone else having this issue?
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Originally posted by Metal Izanagi:
Check the uh...there's an option in the settings that mentions that it might cause crackling/distortion. Reverberation I think?
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THE GLOOSE Mar 25, 2023 @ 6:04pm 
I am, havent found a solution yet either
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Frontier Psychiatrist Mar 25, 2023 @ 6:08pm 
That can usually be down to audio bitrate you've set your headphones to. Normally if you have it set to 48 kHz you'll be alright. Cyberpunk 2077 has a similar issue.
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SHMIZZLE Mar 25, 2023 @ 6:29pm 
Originally posted by Frontier Psychiatrist:
That can usually be down to audio bitrate you've set your headphones to. Normally if you have it set to 48 kHz you'll be alright. Cyberpunk 2077 has a similar issue.
hmm, my bitrate is at 48 khz and my audio drivers are up to date already. This is the only game to my knowledge that gets crackling sounds so I'm not sure what else I can do.
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hypercybermegatron Mar 25, 2023 @ 6:36pm 
Originally posted by SHMIZZLE:
Originally posted by Frontier Psychiatrist:
That can usually be down to audio bitrate you've set your headphones to. Normally if you have it set to 48 kHz you'll be alright. Cyberpunk 2077 has a similar issue.
hmm, my bitrate is at 48 khz and my audio drivers are up to date already. This is the only game to my knowledge that gets crackling sounds so I'm not sure what else I can do.
Sample rate is what is meant. Bitrate means something else, rate of data. Sample rate = how many samples per second of digital audio.

Make sure windows device sample rate is 48kHz, but also disable all "Audio Enhancements" in Windows Sound device config.
Last edited by hypercybermegatron; Mar 25, 2023 @ 6:39pm
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Bhipus Mar 26, 2023 @ 1:48pm 
YO I'm getting the same issues I thought it was just me. I went to Best buy to get it checked out and it is still making the same noises but it is only on some steam games.
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Rocker Apr 16, 2023 @ 4:16pm 
Hi everyone, I have the same problem. Right from the start of the game, when the Police car is running on the forest road, from external view, there's sizzling and crackling sounds. Also when Leon is badly hurt.
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SHMIZZLE Apr 16, 2023 @ 5:55pm 
Well looking back at this now, its not so much an audio cracking sound. It's more like audio skipping. Again, only game I have that does this.
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hypercybermegatron Apr 16, 2023 @ 7:44pm 
Originally posted by SHMIZZLE:
Well looking back at this now, its not so much an audio cracking sound. It's more like audio skipping. Again, only game I have that does this.
Are you using Bluetooth headset? If the game is locked to 48kHz and heasmdset stuck at 44.1kHz that might be the issue.
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hypercybermegatron Apr 16, 2023 @ 8:45pm 
Originally posted by hypercybermegatron:
Originally posted by SHMIZZLE:
Well looking back at this now, its not so much an audio cracking sound. It's more like audio skipping. Again, only game I have that does this.
Are you using Bluetooth headset? If the game is locked to 48kHz and heasmdset stuck at 44.1kHz that might be the issue.
Also, I had an issue the other day with JBL Bluetooth speaker using 2.4Ghz wifi, similar to what you described. Switching to 5Ghz access point resolved the issue.
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SHMIZZLE Apr 16, 2023 @ 9:01pm 
Originally posted by hypercybermegatron:
Originally posted by SHMIZZLE:
Well looking back at this now, its not so much an audio cracking sound. It's more like audio skipping. Again, only game I have that does this.
Are you using Bluetooth headset? If the game is locked to 48kHz and heasmdset stuck at 44.1kHz that might be the issue.
Everything plugged into my PC is wired.
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hypercybermegatron Apr 16, 2023 @ 9:30pm 
Originally posted by SHMIZZLE:
Originally posted by hypercybermegatron:
Are you using Bluetooth headset? If the game is locked to 48kHz and heasmdset stuck at 44.1kHz that might be the issue.
Everything plugged into my PC is wired.
Interesting. I see you've set sample rate on sound card to 48kHz. Did you also disable all enhancements?
https://youtu.be/eXGyAzk3fd4
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SHMIZZLE Apr 16, 2023 @ 9:44pm 
Originally posted by hypercybermegatron:
Originally posted by SHMIZZLE:
Everything plugged into my PC is wired.
Interesting. I see you've set sample rate on sound card to 48kHz. Did you also disable all enhancements?
https://youtu.be/eXGyAzk3fd4
yes, all enhancements were already disabled. The stuttering wasn't too bad but noticeable. I remember having a similar problem with an old PS3 where both the audio and video in games would stutter badly and that turned out to be a bad hard drive. However this PC is maybe 10 months old and pretty decent specs with 2 new SSDs configured in RAID 0, I can't imagine that being the issue here.
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Metal Izanagi Apr 16, 2023 @ 9:50pm 
Check the uh...there's an option in the settings that mentions that it might cause crackling/distortion. Reverberation I think?
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hypercybermegatron Apr 16, 2023 @ 10:11pm 
Originally posted by SHMIZZLE:
Originally posted by hypercybermegatron:
Interesting. I see you've set sample rate on sound card to 48kHz. Did you also disable all enhancements?
https://youtu.be/eXGyAzk3fd4
yes, all enhancements were already disabled. The stuttering wasn't too bad but noticeable. I remember having a similar problem with an old PS3 where both the audio and video in games would stutter badly and that turned out to be a bad hard drive. However this PC is maybe 10 months old and pretty decent specs with 2 new SSDs configured in RAID 0, I can't imagine that being the issue here.
The odd thing is the problem is only happening in one game for you.

Why use RAID 0 on SSDs? Diminishing returns when it comes to performances and heightened risk of failure. Install game on a spare HDD and see what happens.
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SHMIZZLE Apr 16, 2023 @ 10:40pm 
Originally posted by hypercybermegatron:

Why use RAID 0 on SSDs? Diminishing returns when it comes to performances and heightened risk of failure. Install game on a spare HDD and see what happens.

RAID 0 or RAID 1 I forget which is which. It is whatever one that basically turned my two 2TB drives into a single 4TB drive. The stuttering isn't too bad so if I am the odd one out here I am not going to bother getting new hardware to fix the issue.
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