Audio Lag | Alien Death Scenes | Regardless Of Graphic Settings

[Brigadier Wullf]

Hi all, so having an issue with Alien Death scenes, the audio is not synced with the visuals,with the sounds happening before mi husband rips my face off.

I have looked at other forums and discussions to try and find a fix, I've tried changing the graphic settings from ultra all the way down to low or off and I've checked to ensure my audio drivers are up-to-date.

The issue still persists, Razer Cortex shows the max frame rate at 60 FPS with an average of 33 FPS, I use Razer Cortex Boost while running games to free up RAM etc.

My PC isn't the most powerful but running the game at low settings with the issue persisting leads me to think that it's either a glitch in the game or the death scenes are pre-rendered regardless of graphic settings.

Any advice on this would be grateful as now my PS4 has died and I'd like my A:I fix, I'll post specs below. I'm using the built-in Realtek Audio Driver, but will be getting a Razer Kraken Ultimate THX Surround Sound Headset soon, will this alleviate the issue?

Specs

System Model - HP Pavilion Desktop 590-p0xxx
System Type - x64-based PC
Processor - AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega Graphics, 3600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 5.91 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.51 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.6 GB
Available Virtual Memory 2.38 GB

[bulletshowerr]

with the sounds happening before mi husband rips my face off.

Funny.

However, some of us experience a audiolag or slowmo when the game isnt capping at 60FPS in nvidia graphic settings.

But you are using a Radeon graphic, i have no clue if this is possible too in Radeon graphic settings? Also it could be that your laptop doesnt meet the lowest requirements of this game?

[Brigadier Wullf]

Originally posted by 12345:

with the sounds happening before mi husband rips my face off.

Funny.

However, some of us experience a audiolag or slowmo when the game isnt capping at 60FPS in nvidia graphic settings.

But you are using a Radeon graphic, i have no clue if this is possible too in Radeon graphic settings? Also it could be that your laptop doesnt meet the lowest requirements of this game?

Hey thanks, I'll check if I can alter the FPS settings, I did check game requirements before buying, the desktop met the minimum requirements and all of the recommended bar the RAM.

[Matse [FR]]

Have you tried with Vsync turned on in graphic options ? Only bug I had so far in this game was a few objects floating in the air but I've read about a few weird ones. I seem to remember reading something about vsync helping but could be wrong.

edit : another thing to try would be updating the audio driver, if there's a more recent one available.
Also there's always the possibility that you have some program running in the background that could mess with your performance

[Brigadier Wullf]

Originally posted by Matse FR:

Have you tried with Vsync turned on in graphic options ? Only bug I had so far in this game was a few objects floating in the air but I've read about a few weird ones. I seem to remember reading something about vsync helping but could be wrong.

edit : another thing to try would be updating the audio driver, if there's a more recent one available.
Also there's always the possibility that you have some program running in the background that could mess with your performance

I'll double check but I'm sure V Sync was activated by default, I did see a post about updating the audio driver, tried this and found the latest was installed.

I use razer cortex boost to free up RAM when running games, though I'm just realising that Onedrive constantly runs in the background and that does eat up RAM like mad, I've played the game for approx 20 minutes, so do have time to play around with settings before the 2 hour window closes.

I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling the game, see if that helps, when in game hitting walls etc the audio is synced perfectly, only with death scenes the audio comes first even with the lowest graphic settings.

Maybe a bug?

[bulletshowerr]

deinstalling and reinstalling wont help i believe, however... when you look in search you will find many many other with same problem. https://steamcommunity.com/app/214490/discussions/0/2250055685740864233/ for example.

All solutions were enable vsync, cap FPS at 60.

[Brigadier Wullf]

Originally posted by 12345:

deinstalling and reinstalling wont help i believe, however... when you look in search you will find many many other with same problem. https://steamcommunity.com/app/214490/discussions/0/2250055685740864233/ for example.

All solutions were enable vsync, cap FPS at 60.

Thanks, V-Sync was always enabled, tried capping at 60 FPS with the AMD Radeon Panel, still no success, I put the frame rate counter on the screen when playing, normal game play sits at 25 FPS, but drops to 18 FPS with Alien death animation.

Think I'll just sack it in and request a refund.

[Brigadier Wullf]

FOUND A FIX! So took on board all suggestions and advice, as a last try I changed the resolution from 1920x1080 to 1280x720, this worked a treat and even functions well with high graphics settings, thanks to everyone for taking the time to help out.

[Matse [FR]]

Nice ! You are now a true PC gamer :)

By the way I remember reading a bit about your CPU/GPU thing and I think it said that by default most of the RAM is dedicated to the CPU, with the GPU getting something like 512Mo.
If that's the case that's not much : big textures could eat that up really quick, and this would result in a lot of "swapping" meaning textures get loaded and unloaded from your hard drive to your gpu all the time. This would be a performance killer.

I clearly remember reading about a tool program that would let you balance RAM between CPU and GPU, you might want to do a search about that and try giving the GPU 1 or 2 Go : could make a huge difference.

edit : when I say "Mo" it should translate to "MB" (MegaBytes) and "Go" to "GB" (GigaBytes)

[Brigadier Wullf]

Originally posted by Matse FR:

Nice ! You are now a true PC gamer :)

By the way I remember reading a bit about your CPU/GPU thing and I think it said that by default most of the RAM is dedicated to the CPU, with the GPU getting something like 512Mo.
If that's the case that's not much : big textures could eat that up really quick, and this would result in a lot of "swapping" meaning textures get loaded and unloaded from your hard drive to your gpu all the time. This would be a performance killer.

I clearly remember reading about a tool program that would let you balance RAM between CPU and GPU, you might want to do a search about that and try giving the GPU 1 or 2 Go : could make a huge difference.

edit : when I say "Mo" it should translate to "MB" (MegaBytes) and "Go" to "GB" (GigaBytes)

Awesome, thanks Matse, I'll give it a go, still planning to upgrade memory and graphics card, but at least I can game for now 👍