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krangledangle has S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Nov 9, 2018 @ 6:30pm

Audio Issues on Windows 10 - No audio OR constant crackling & popping

Hi all,

Every time I run ShoC, the game runs fine but after a few minutes, all the audio from the game disappears and there's no sound.

The only thing I've found that helps at all is running the game with the launch code "-dsound". Now, however, the sound stays ON but the audio is constantly cracking and popping. I'm just running the ZRP patch on a vanilla game. I used to play this game on my old Windows 7 PC and never had such issues.

Has anyone found any fixes for this issue yet? Thanks in advance!

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Draescan

Nov 9, 2018 @ 11:48pm

This sort of sounds like an issue I ran into with TESIV Oblivion. Try changing the sample rate on your particular sound source. Headset, speakers, whatever you're using, you should be able to change them to something compatible ( hopefully ) as most firmware supports nearly all sample rates these days.

krangledangle has S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Nov 10, 2018 @ 1:56am

Originally posted by Draescan:
This sort of sounds like an issue I ran into with TESIV Oblivion. Try changing the sample rate on your particular sound source. Headset, speakers, whatever you're using, you should be able to change them to something compatible ( hopefully ) as most firmware supports nearly all sample rates these days.

Thanks so much for the response - what's the best way of going about that? I've got headphones, monitor speakers, and external speakers to choose from.

Heresy

Nov 11, 2018 @ 4:53pm

I dont think any game ever made likes running on windows 10. It was just a bad bad move to screw over gamers. That being said i will never upgrade from windows 7 after hearing endless horror stories. Even negative reviews for brand new full price games that people always make such as " Wont run on Windows 10". Too bad people dont realise its directly their problem for using windows 10 and games will never be properly compatable with it.