Horrible audio crackling and buzzing...

[funkynutz]

NOTE: Fixed it by reinstalling the game. Another user has similar issue though...

Nearly every time I start anything in game (practice/race/career etc) I get horrible buzzing/popping/crackling in the audio. Similar to static but even more annoying.

It doesn't happen every time: Sometimes I can try to start a race and it loads with the noise problem, I quit the race (leave the launcher still running), reload the race and the audio works normally. Other times no matter how many times I reload the game, and even if I reload the launcher I get it every time... Very rarely it will just work first time, but then when I go to start the next race the problem comes back.

Happens with any number of cars on the track from 1-12. Happens with at least half a dozen different cars (all the ones I've tested so far).

I've tried changing the latency settings, changed windows audio settings, verified the game cache, made sure audio drivers are up to date... No errors showing in eventviewer... No other games have any issue with audio...

No mods installed.

Any ideas?

[funkynutz]

Hmmm... I wonder if it's a bug with nvidia cards on win 10... I wouldn't have thought family sharing would affect it (though I won't rule it out as I'm also using it to share games with my son).

Just about to test now, wish me luck :)

[tennis]

Pc specs: Windows 10 home 64 bit.
Cpu: Intel core i5 2320 3.00 Ghz
RAM: 8 GB DDR3 single channel 668 MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68AD-D3 socket 1150
GPU: Asus geforce gt 640 2GB

[tennis]

It's kind of lagging when going at really low speeds, not fps shuttering though. More of like a latency lag, just like the once you experience on an online game with 300 ping(when the cpu occupancy is showing). It's really wierd.

[funkynutz]

Seems to be working fine now: http://www.twitch.tv/rollaphat1/v/14723629 (excuse the poor driving, I'm trying to get used to using a pad again since I broke my wheel, and I've not sorted the sensitivity out yet).

[quf]

Try to lower every graphical setting from the menu, even disabling the pp effects. Then try with one car in practice mode.
One thing though, disable vsync (in game menu and nvidia, in case is forced on for every game). And use a manual frame limiter. Set it to 60 or 64, depending on screen tearing.

[tennis]

I'll give it a shot!

[tennis]

I lowered every setting i could find to the lowest, lowered the resolution also. Still it didn't do anything to the cpu problem.

[kazereal]

Have you check AC options for the audio latency setting? Lowering that might help.

One thing to check: some games install additional crapware for VoIP/chat which caused HUGE problems, namely Battlefield 3 did that. Audio was bugged in everything until I found and uninstalled that.

[Jackrabbit_V6/ RSProduxx]

hm...sounds still like an cpu issue to me... i ususally get that when too many things use CPU and i run a CPU instense game... idont know intel very much, so i just tell you how AC went for me: My Athlon II X4 640 (4x3.0 ghz) wasnt able to handle the game at lowest settings, a slight upgrade to an Fx 4100 made a huge difference and it runs fine now...

dont know which AMD processor your Intel does compare best to though,maybe some guys around here might be able to tell

BUT the issue could also be with your sound card/sound chip... sometimes running multiple sound sources at once,especially with a sound-loaded game,cause those cracks and soundglitches as well,depending on which sound chip your pc uses that might be an issue as well...

[funkynutz]

Reinstalling seems to have done the trick for me. Tried a few cars, and the only problem with the audio now is a loud click when the game starts to load a track. Everything is normal after that.

Originally posted by Jackrabbit_V6:

hm...sounds still like an cpu issue to me... i ususally get that when too many things use CPU and i run a CPU instense game... idont know intel very much, so i just tell you how AC went for me: My Athlon II X4 640 (4x3.0 ghz) wasnt able to handle the game at lowest settings, a slight upgrade to an Fx 4100 made a huge difference and it runs fine now...

dont know which AMD processor your Intel does compare best to though,maybe some guys around here might be able to tell

His i5 will be roughly 10-50% faster (depends on the app being benchmarked) than your AMD judging by the few benchmarks I've just looked at... In some benchmarks it's a tiny bit faster than my FX8350...

[TFerretNXG]

your sound playback device might have blown. this game is LOUD

[Catminz]

I randomly get a sound bug too when loading a race a horrible loud static/loop starts. I have to exit and load the current session again it then goes away. I think it has something to do with the Razor software I am using called Razor synapse (Razor Kraken 7.1 surround head set).
Are you using the software to by chance ?

[tennis]

I am.

[Catminz]

Hm so it might be the Razor software causing the problem. I disabled the surround and only using stereo 2.0 atm the buzzing happenes a LOT lesser. If you got the time try to disable the synapse completely I will not be playing the game anymore today.
But will give it a try tomorrow and let you know if it disappears completely!

[quf]

Also uncheck full-range speakers, uncheck loudness equalization (usually in sound effects), and if you had room correction on, try off. Also uncheck virtual surround (speaker fill).