Sound Stuttering

[Madzy]

Hiya peeps,

I have a few sound issues, ill describe the conditions when it starts stuttering.
(note: the game isn't lagging , doesn't have fps drops or glitches before, after or during the stuttering its mainly just random pretty frequent special moments when the sound stutters)

1. The sound stutters when i'm going slow motion on the horse and hold my left click for attack. Stutters really badly with this one.

2. The sound stutters when i'm in combat with alot of enemy's, mainly because all make noises included myself combo'd with the background combat music and such. (not as bad stutters as the horse but still annoyingly bad)

3. The sound stutters when its windy/raining or both, mainly by itself the rain and wind doesn't cause it, but as soon as i get background music / use Witcher sence/ or enter a cutscene/ random npc conversation it starts randomly stuttering parts. (not as bad as the horse but slight more annoying then the combat one)

These things mainly ruin my playthrough experience, since listening to major story parts or doing a witcher quest while fighting the monster or a Boss and then have it randomly stuttering my sound annoys anyone and removes the immersion.

Please can someone help me with this issue.
I already tryed reinstalling the game, sound and grafics drivers, but all things stay the same and everything is up to date.

Here are my specs:

Geforce GTX 980M
Driver version: 365.10
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4980HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
16 GB RAM
1920 x1080, 60Hz
Microsoft Windows 8.1

Anyway thanks for reading this and hopefully have this problem solved soon.

[Madzy]

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[Koalaballa]

This used to happen to me alot. I would first try going to the Nvidia control panel and set the pre rendered frames to 1 and use vsync in the control panel. If you have Nvidia inspector, open the overclock panel and set both gpu clock and memory clock to -20.
If your frame rates stutter you could try capping your framerate in the user files.
Hope this helps

[Madzy]

Originally posted by Koalaballa:

This used to happen to me alot. I would first try going to the Nvidia control panel and set the pre rendered frames to 1 and use vsync in the control panel. If you have Nvidia inspector, open the overclock panel and set both gpu clock and memory clock to -20.
If your frame rates stutter you could try capping your framerate in the user files.
Hope this helps

Like I said Grafics and such are perfect have no fps issues or glitches or anything.
Its purely just the sound that stutters under those conditions that i mentioned.
I also used to play the witcher 3 around patch 1.05 without all of these things happening to the sound with the same exact setting.
I even lowered some compared to back then.
So my first guess would of been that its something to do with the latest patch that might cause sounds issues for some.

Ill try messing around with the things you said again, but doubt it will help since i tryed those and other grafic stuff already and didn't change a thing.

[Madzy]

Originally posted by Madzy:

Originally posted by Koalaballa:

This used to happen to me alot. I would first try going to the Nvidia control panel and set the pre rendered frames to 1 and use vsync in the control panel. If you have Nvidia inspector, open the overclock panel and set both gpu clock and memory clock to -20.
If your frame rates stutter you could try capping your framerate in the user files.
Hope this helps

Like I said Grafics and such are perfect have no fps issues or glitches or anything.
Its purely just the sound that stutters under those conditions that i mentioned.
I also used to play the witcher 3 around patch 1.05 without all of these things happening to the sound with the same exact setting.
I even lowered some compared to back then.
So my first guess would of been that its something to do with the latest patch that might cause sounds issues for some.

Ill try messing around with the things you said again, but doubt it will help since i tryed those and other grafic stuff already and didn't change a thing.

Okay so i tryed these things you said and there wasn't a diff, the game actually ran worse, so had to revert these thing since well the problem didn't get fixed.

[edelknight]

try repairing the witcher 3. It helped me, though I have it on GoG, if that makes any difference.

[Gwinda]

I'm having exactly the same sound problem. Did you solve it?

[Madzy]

Originally posted by Gwinda:

I'm having exactly the same sound problem. Did you solve it?

Hiya Gwinda,

I don't have the problem anymore for a while now,
Just removed the grafics driver (by using DDU program to properly remove the driver and all files connected to it) and reinstalled it and then let nvidia experience decide the grafic settings.
This is what i did before comming back to the game after a year, it might have been patced for me when i had it.

Try the grafics thing, make sure all things of your sound drive and windows is up to date and then try repairing and validating files. (if it doesn't try removing all files even the ones in roaming and such and redownload and install the game again)
If all that doesn't help I recommend talking to someone from the games creators or create your own post on steam.

Hope this helps a bit atleast.

[J'ee]

Still an issue.

[J'ee]

By the way, if you need a refund because of the audio stutter, Steam can do it but don't spend more than 2 hours in the game trying to troubleshoot or they'll construe that as playtime and won't process a refund. W3 looks really fun but it's better to just give up and wait until the game is reportedly patched for your system or until you get another system.

[seppuked]

Guys did someone solve this issue? 2018 here

[Ether]

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[tonyandkaren1]

I also had this problem sporadically.
I have a HP with beats audio.
I opened beats audio and under listening experience I unchecked beats audio and made a custom setting under graphic equalizer .Make sure none of the levers touch the very top.
I have had no problem since.

Hope this works for you.

[tubuliferous]

After ages of dealing with this problem (stuttering during slow horseback riding), the issue seems to be fixed. In fact, a bunch of performance issues across many games are now resolved. The problem for me was that in Windows 10, under the advanced power options, the minimum processor state was NOT set to 100%. For more information:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/processor-power-management-windows

I found it a bit unintuitive to actually change that setting, so if you find that your minimum processor state is set to something other than 100% and you try to make the change to 100%, make sure that the change actually sticks.

[valnoled]

Thanls to previous post, I've figured out what was my problem. Laptops with Windows10 sometimes stop charging, which is a quiet famous problem. And that switches perfomance to lower. So basically replug charger — that should do the thing.

[niblish]

I actually got a brand new computer and headphones and had this happen with the sound. I tried Wild Hunt with the headphones, then just the speakers. The sound stuttering only happened with the headphones, so I will look into solving it now.