Sound issues

[Strummer101er]

Was there ever a definate fix for the sound skipping/stuttering issue? Tried what I found so far (changing sound quality, etc) but no luck.

[rAdarNemli]

its fine but pretty annying

[shrizumalonito]

I had this issue too. But it began working again after cleaning up my desktop. Meaning: uninstalling games and programs that I don't use so often.

This work fine for me. Don't know about everyone else though.

[beebarb]

Originally posted by shrizumalonito:

I had this issue too. But it began working again after cleaning up my desktop. Meaning: uninstalling games and programs that I don't use so often.

This work fine for me. Don't know about everyone else though.

That would not solve the issue, sound issues have no relation to the number of installed applications.

In some cases, updating the sound driver or game may fix the issue. However, often it's not so simple.

Some small things like disabling the Steam overlay may help. As will reducing the number of background processes using up resources.

Either disable entirely, or enable the 'game mode' of any anti-virus program and third party firewall. Anti-virus applications may perform on-access scanning that can disrupt games, introducing performance issues including but not limited to sound stutter.

[Strummer101er]

Will try disabling the Steam overlay deal.

its fine but pretty annying<<

If it's annoying it is literally the exact opposite of fine :)

[Dino]

I've got the same issue somewhat...

For me, the audio (BGM and SFX) is quite crackly. I have no issues with this cracklyness with any other games or software. It is not a result of my PC not being 'fast' enough as it uses about 30% of CPU (on two cores only, leaving 4 cores free) and only 250MB of RAM usage.

I've found that having surround sound (7.1) on leads to stick of truth crackling where having stereo on stops the cracking. This would be a fine fix if stick of truth didn't try to output surround through the stereo hardware.. at least this seems to happen as the outputted audio doesn't match sources in the game correctly. IE, door bangs on left side of screen and I hear it in the right ear, some sounds do work fine though. IE, door bangs on left, heard on left.

Also checked under the config.cfg file in the game directory and found;
[Game.Audio]
listener_offset = 8.0
listener_separation = 16.0
Changing these values has no noticeable effect.

TL;DR
Audio crackles under surround 7.1 use.
Audio fails to output correct surround configuration under Stereo use.
No fix found :(

//System Info;
AMD Phenom II Black X6 3.2Ghz
12GB DDR3 1600Mhz
2TB RAID 0 storage config
Logitech G35 headset
Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate

[Strummer101er]

Thanks. Yeah I was wondering if it was a surround sound issue. Guess that's not it :/

[Dino]

I was able to somewhat 'work around' this issue by using a different output device. I am currently using some stereo earbuds successfully without crackling, but sadly, I don't get the quality of sound I would from my headset :(

[Slashaar]

I turned surround off my G930's and it stopped the crackling.

[jeff the kills you]

I get it all the time its playable but it makes the cutscene sounds way off

[DE.US]

Originally posted by Strummer101er:

Was there ever a definate fix for the sound skipping/stuttering issue? Tried what I found so far (changing sound quality, etc) but no luck.

I got a problem with the audio too. In cutscenes the voice was way too low compared to a normal interaction voice. I got a 7.1 headphone and turning off the 7.1 surround sound option in the windows setting at the headphone tab it got fixed.