Walking/Hitting sound glitching/stuttering

[Borchen]

While walking, swimming, and most blaring, while sprinting, my sound is cutting into obnoxious clicks and knocks rather than the seamless flow of audio it was before. This began a couple days ago, and it's making the game difficult to play, and even harder to enjoy. It's especially troubling when something huge is running up behind me or hitting my taming dinos without playing any sound. The ambiance, music, and voice seem unaffected. One night, it was totally fine, and the next morning, I had this problem. It's not a graphics or cpu issue, as I'm running the game without framerate drop or lag. The only thing I can think is the cause is a windows update, the only change that occurred on my pc between the issue not existing and rearing its ugly head. I've restarted the game, restarted my pc, verified the files, and even reinstalled the entire game (that was a fun couple hours.) It occurs on both The Island and The Center, the only two maps I've played so far.

If you guys have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

Update: When I tried an old pair of headphones that barely work, the problem disappeared. I don't know if the windows update screwed with some internal sound setting, but my logitech speakers have no issue with any program except Ark. That being said, they seem to be the problem.

[Nevaia]

Originally posted by Borchen:

While walking, swimming, and most blaring, while sprinting, my sound is cutting into obnoxious clicks and knocks rather than the seamless flow of audio it was before. This began a couple days ago, and it's making the game difficult to play, and even harder to enjoy. It's especially troubling when something huge is running up behind me or hitting my taming dinos without playing any sound. The ambiance, music, and voice seem unaffected. One night, it was totally fine, and the next morning, I had this problem. It's not a graphics or cpu issue, as I'm running the game without framerate drop or lag. The only thing I can think is the cause is a windows update, the only change that occurred on my pc between the issue not existing and rearing its ugly head. I've restarted the game, restarted my pc, verified the files, and even reinstalled the entire game (that was a fun couple hours.) It occurs on both The Island and The Center, the only two maps I've played so far.

If you guys have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

Update: When I tried an old pair of headphones that barely work, the problem disappeared. I don't know if the windows update screwed with some internal sound setting, but my logitech speakers have no issue with any program except Ark. That being said, they seem to be the problem.

Happens to me as well! For the most If I dont directly watch a sound source it is wayyyyy quieter. The only thing I can somewhat hear without looking are thunder strikes on rag (tho cheking to the east makes them louder) or dinogates closing. Musics are very quiet as well...

[Fox in a cowboy hat]

I also have this exactly same problem, with the exception that I'm using a Steel Series headset. Weirdly enough, I have a set of 2 Logitech Speakers, but those work fine???

I commented on another post about this, but I don't think they had any luck either, oof.

[Fox in a cowboy hat]

HEY! I figured it out!!!! Either my speakers and monitor speakers being disabled, or the fact that, when I enabled all my audio devices in the Sound devices menu, my Monitor Speakers were the "main" default device (in that, while I had my headset as my default device, upon re-enabling my montior speaker, THAT became the default device automatically) were the cause of the issue.

From there, I went ahead and set my headset devices (one for game and one for chat) as my defaults. This fixed the issue for me, hopefully this is whats going on for yall too!

[Borchen]

I believe I've fixed my issue, at least for the most part. Going into audio devices on the playback tab, I clicked my speakers and hit configure. From there, I selected 5.1 surround even though I don't have more than my main speakers and my subwoofer. After disabling all the other nonexistent speakers and my subwoofer, the issue seems to be mostly gone, though sprinting on my Spino and Baryonyx still sounds somewhat off. It isn't interfering with other sounds, now, and that's what was most important to me. Interestingly enough, there's absolutely still audio coming out of my subwoofer. I've never been able to get that thing to shut up. I hope this helps anyone having the same issue!