Audio Issues

[atmosBETA]

For whatever reason, this game's audio doesn't work! I've done some research, but all I could find was a single Youtube video. It suggested toning the audio bitrate down, but this did nothing! Can someone explain why this game takes 10 hours just to get working? This is getting pretty irritating, and I'm starting to regret my purchase.

[Zeorymer - Battling Cancer]

I have perhaps a similar bug; it happens once and a while at game start up. When the logos for the companies begin to play, the video frame rate slows down, as does the audio. Then once the titlte screen appears, I get no audio. To top it off, the video has a frame drop, and even slow loading. Normally for me to fix this, I just leave the game completely, and launch the game again. The audio and video then plays just fine.

Again though, not sure if it's the same bug you are experiencing.

[atmosBETA]

So far, it's happening every time I've tried to launch the game. Even when I get to the gameplay, I have no audio whatsoever. Also, I'm not getting any dropped frames.

[Feldont]

I am having the same issues. I seem to have sound until just before the start of the game and then no sound at all.

[Samael]

The only audio problems i know of with Doom is if people use USB external soundcards, or the frequency is set higher then 48000hz in windows audio settings.

Someone else said it was solved by unchecking the "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" , in advanced speaker soundcard properties of Windows.

And please update your sound drivers.

Found another thread :

Method 1 During playing Doom whil running in background mode, press Alt-Tab. Right click speaker icon that is located near the clock in the right down corner and choose there Playback Devices. Then be sure to click Speakers and click Test. That’s all! After implementing this steps you will return sound in DOOM. Read more: http://techfaqs.net/games/how-to-fix-no-sound-in-doom-pc/

You are telling us you did your research. It took me 5 seconds to find thousands of pages on the internet talking about your problem.

Not that hard. Type "Doom 2016 sound problems" in google. The first 50 pages talk about your problems and might have other solutions.

[Ra66it]

Originally posted by Samael:

The only audio problems i know of with Doom is if people use USB external soundcards, or the frequency is set higher then 48000hz in windows audio settings.

Someone else said it was solved by unchecking the "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" , in advanced speaker soundcard properties of Windows.

And please update your sound drivers.

Found another thread :

Method 1 During playing Doom whil running in background mode, press Alt-Tab. Right click speaker icon that is located near the clock in the right down corner and choose there Playback Devices. Then be sure to click Speakers and click Test. That’s all! After implementing this steps you will return sound in DOOM. Read more: http://techfaqs.net/games/how-to-fix-no-sound-in-doom-pc/

You are telling us you did your research. It took me 5 seconds to find thousands of pages on the internet talking about your problem.

Not that hard. Type "Doom 2016 sound problems" in google. The first 50 pages talk about your problems and might have other solutions.

Thank you for all the research you solved my problem. "Someone else said it was solved by unchecking the "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" , in advanced speaker soundcard properties of Windows."

peace brother

[Sean Lawn]

Originally posted by atmosBETA:

So far, it's happening every time I've tried to launch the game. Even when I get to the gameplay, I have no audio whatsoever. Also, I'm not getting any dropped frames.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/379720/discussions/?fp=2

there are other solutions I see now I've posted but all worth a try I supose ;]

[matonmacs]

TL;DR: Make sure your audio drivers are up to date.

Google brought me here so I thought I'd leave a comment for future folks. None of the proposed solutions (changing bitrate, etc.) worked for me. Finally, I realized that I had never downloaded the audio drivers for my motherboard (I'm using onboard sound). The default Windows drivers were good enough for regular audio, but in Doom everything kept breaking up. In short, I downloaded and installed the Realtek drivers for my ASRock motherboard and the sound problems went away.

[Samael]

Originally posted by matonmacs:

TL;DR: Make sure your audio drivers are up to date.

Google brought me here so I thought I'd leave a comment for future folks. None of the proposed solutions (changing bitrate, etc.) worked for me. Finally, I realized that I had never downloaded the audio drivers for my motherboard (I'm using onboard sound). The default Windows drivers were good enough for regular audio, but in Doom everything kept breaking up. In short, I downloaded and installed the Realtek drivers for my ASRock motherboard and the sound problems went away.

What do you mean none of the proposed solutions worked ? If you look at my post up there that i did 1 years ago i tell people to update their drivers and i say that in almost 50 threads ;)

[spyrograph]

Audio here goes and comes, and eventually Doom freezes and I get a DPC Watchdog Violation BSOD.

Doom is the only piece of software that causes this. Is audio related and is crashing my 1394 Firewire card connected to my audio interface. My Firewire card is totally fine, I got the most compatible one with a known good Texas instruments chip.

I know how a faulty TI chip behaves. I had to purchase 3 in order to find the right one. So I wouldn't blame the FW card here. Tried also the Legacy drivers and is the same.

As I said, Doom and only Doom is crashing my system and given other poeple is having audio issues too i woudl suggest the developer team to look into it.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by spyrograph:

Audio here goes and comes, and eventually Doom freezes and I get a DPC Watchdog Violation BSOD.

Doom is the only piece of software that causes this. Is audio related and is crashing my 1394 Firewire card connected to my audio interface. My Firewire card is totally fine, I got the most compatible one with a known good Texas instruments chip.

I know how a faulty TI chip behaves. I had to purchase 3 in order to find the right one. So I wouldn't blame the FW card here. Tried also the Legacy drivers and is the same.

As I said, Doom and only Doom is crashing my system and given other poeple is having audio issues too i woudl suggest the developer team to look into it.

I'd blame the 1394 interface.

FireWire has been obsolete for quite a few years now, and FireWire audio has always had intermittent issues even when it was "current" technology.

Doom accesses audio hardware at a very low level, hence the exceptional performance achieved with the lossless audio used in the game. FireWire audio was not well supported ever in it's history, and no matter how compatible the 1394 chipset, you are still looking at a decade-old chip at best, with drivers that no longer are actively developed. They may be patched here and there, but I would guess FireWire audio is used by less that .1% of users, and no company is investing in compatibility fixes.

Especially with a watchdog error, some clockrate is going out of sync or experiencing a mismatch. Since FireWire is a streaming rather than serial packet interface like USB, it is sensitive to clock timing errors, and slapdash drivers, on something that is relatively unsupported, is a recipe for disaster.

Edit: Yes, there is still some pro audio gear that uses FireWire for legacy compatibility, but generally for use in DAWs that use internally validated drivers. There is no consumer level FireWire audio interface that has ever been marketed or validated for gaming.

[spyrograph]

I agree. But I use audio sequencers on a daily basis and have no problems. At a very low latency.

On the other hand no other app in my system gives me these crashes...only Doom. And given other people is having also audio issues I woudn't be surprised is Doom's fault after all too.

[Man]

Originally posted by atmosBETA:

For whatever reason, this game's audio doesn't work! I've done some research, but all I could find was a single Youtube video. It suggested toning the audio bitrate down, but this did nothing! Can someone explain why this game takes 10 hours just to get working? This is getting pretty irritating, and I'm starting to regret my purchase.

I had an issue where the soundtrack played at 2 or 3 x the normal speed.
The fix was to set the sound quality to 44100 Hz or lower.

Cheers.

[EnthusiasticallyDrinksPiss]

I keep changing the Hz to every option but nothing works

[spyrograph]

It was Vulkan....running with OpenGL worked fine...finished the game....found it boring anyway :D

[Samael]

Originally posted by spyrograph:

It was Vulkan....running with OpenGL worked fine...finished the game....found it boring anyway :D

It's everything but boring. You are probably not a FPS person to begin with.