For The Love of God Fix The Crackling Audio

[Panzer]

I can't take it anymore, it's driving me crazy. The majority of the time there is any large amount of action going on the audio starts crackling like crazy to the point i can barely make out the sounds i'm hearing. I've tried every combination of settings graphical or otherwise to fix it, and it won't stop.

Sometimes the audio is fine, but the vast majority of the time it turns into a crackling mess during high intensity situations. I've Googled and looked around to make sure i'm not the only one having this problem, and there are definitely others having it too, even on very high end setups.


It sounds awful and unironically ruins muh immersion, this ♥♥♥♥ needs to be addressed ASAP

[Proxy]

Do you by chance have an AMD Ryzen system?

[Eagle_of_Fire]

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

For The Love of God Fix The Crackling Audio

I can confidently say it is an issue on your end.

[Austron 3030]

Speakers? Headphones? S/PDIF? Bluetooth? HDMI? 3.5mm auxiliary? 16-bit 48 KHz? Kindly provide some details about your system and audio devices if you wish to do more than complain.

Probably something for the devs to fix, but there might be some troubleshooting you could do. More details about your setup would avail others who wish to help you.

Crackling sounds might be latency. You could try running LatencyMon while experiencing the issue and seeing if anything jumps out at you.

[Panzer]

引用自 eram：

trying to work out what you and the other have in common and its not much from your post
so 1st thing. as a test.. you dont have to keep this

check out voice meter its a virtual audio mixer for windows. you route all audio via the virtual mixer then load the game. does this instantly fix all audio issues?
https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm

Thank you for the suggestion but i'm not comfortable downloading unknown third party software, and even outside of not being comfortable with it i shouldn't have to, to get the game audio to function correctly. I've never had this issue with another game before.

引用自 Proxy：

Do you by chance have an AMD Ryzen system?

No it's an Intel Nvidia system, i5 9300h 1660 Ti

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

For The Love of God Fix The Crackling Audio

I can confidently say it is an issue on your end.

I guess the numerous people that you can find with the issue by Googling or looking at the link i posted don't exist, weird

[Eagle_of_Fire]

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

I can confidently say it is an issue on your end.

I guess the numerous people that you can find with the issue by Googling or looking at the link i posted don't exist, weird

Who said anything about them not existing but you? I've just said that I'm confident in saying that it is an issue on your end.

Jesus, people these days...

[ElyD]

Audio crackles, when the internal audio buffer overflows. If you have an audio interface, increase buffer size. If you use motherboard audio, you're kinda boned and something is causing issues. If your CPU is pegged at 100% *it can* cause issues in the audio stack of the motherboard but it's not common.

[Panzer]

引用自 Austron 3030：

Speakers? Headphones? S/PDIF? Bluetooth? HDMI? 3.5mm auxiliary? 16-bit 48 KHz? Kindly provide some details about your system and audio devices if you wish to do more than complain.

Probably something for the devs to fix, but there might be some troubleshooting you could do. More details about your setup would avail others who wish to help you.

Crackling sounds might be latency. You could try running LatencyMon while experiencing the issue and seeing if anything jumps out at you.

Logitech G432 headset connected through USB, default audio quality/khz settings which is 16 bit 48,000khz

[Panzer]

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

I guess the numerous people that you can find with the issue by Googling or looking at the link i posted don't exist, weird

Who said anything about them not existing but you? I've just said that I'm confident in saying that it is an issue on your end.

Jesus, people these days...

People these days is right, why even bother commenting if you're not going to say anything helpful? It would be a pretty big coincidence for so many people to be having the same issue across varied systems, and have it be an issue on their end and not with the game

[Eagle_of_Fire]

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

引用自 Austron 3030：

Speakers? Headphones? S/PDIF? Bluetooth? HDMI? 3.5mm auxiliary? 16-bit 48 KHz? Kindly provide some details about your system and audio devices if you wish to do more than complain.

Probably something for the devs to fix, but there might be some troubleshooting you could do. More details about your setup would avail others who wish to help you.

Crackling sounds might be latency. You could try running LatencyMon while experiencing the issue and seeing if anything jumps out at you.

Logitech G432 headset connected through USB, default audio quality/khz settings which is 16 bit 48,000khz

Have you tried another USB port? If you plug it on the front of your PC then try the back or vice versa.

Sometimes peripherals move around (especially those at/where plug/unplug regularly) and I have experienced this with a faulty connection with a jack port in the past. Easy enough to try, worth a shot.

edit:

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

Who said anything about them not existing but you? I've just said that I'm confident in saying that it is an issue on your end.

Jesus, people these days...

People these days is right, why even bother commenting if you're not going to say anything helpful? It would be a pretty big coincidence for so many people to be having the same issue across varied systems, and have it be an issue on their end and not with the game

You know what? Screw you. You don't deserve my attention.

[Panzer]

引用自 ElyD：

Audio crackles, when the internal audio buffer overflows. If you have an audio interface, increase buffer size. If you use motherboard audio, you're kinda boned and something is causing issues. If your CPU is pegged at 100% *it can* cause issues in the audio stack of the motherboard but it's not common.

CPU usage usually sits around 80%-ish. Also i am using motherboard audio, nothing fancy

[ElyD]

Since you're on an Nvidia system, you're probably affected by their issues with DPC latency drivers have had for a year or so.
It causes crackling audio when DPC latency spikes with USB headsets and USB interfaces, depending on application. This is not an Arrowhead thing to fix. Nvidia have been trying for a dozen drvers and have not been able to snuff the problem out.

[Panzer]

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

Logitech G432 headset connected through USB, default audio quality/khz settings which is 16 bit 48,000khz

Have you tried another USB port? If you plug it on the front of your PC then try the back or vice versa.

Sometimes peripherals move around (especially those at/where plug/unplug regularly) and I have experienced this with a faulty connection with a jack port in the past. Easy enough to try, worth a shot.

edit:

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

People these days is right, why even bother commenting if you're not going to say anything helpful? It would be a pretty big coincidence for so many people to be having the same issue across varied systems, and have it be an issue on their end and not with the game

You know what? Screw you. You don't deserve my attention.

Lol shows up, makes stupid comment "I can confidently say the issue is on your end", gets called out for making a useless comment that serves to help no one "Screw you!" ok bye, you weren't contributing anything anyways

[Panzer]

引用自 ElyD：

Since you're on an Nvidia system, you're probably affected by their issues with DPC latency drivers have had for a year or so.
It causes crackling audio when DPC latency spikes with USB headsets and USB interfaces, depending on application. This is not an Arrowhead thing to fix. Nvidia have been trying for a dozen drvers and have not been able to snuff the problem out.

If that's the case that's very unfortunate. I was convinced it was an issue on their end since i hadn't experienced this in any other game before, and i've been on the same system since 2020. I wasn't aware that was an issue with Nvidia though, thank you for letting me know

[Proxy]

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

CPU usage usually sits around 80%-ish. Also i am using motherboard audio, nothing fancy

You're not using onboard audio if you have a USB headset, you're using USB emulated audio. What happens if you use the speakers? I'm guessing this is a laptop given the 9300h chip.

[ElyD]

引用自 CommanderFreedom：

引用自 ElyD：

Since you're on an Nvidia system, you're probably affected by their issues with DPC latency drivers have had for a year or so.
It causes crackling audio when DPC latency spikes with USB headsets and USB interfaces, depending on application. This is not an Arrowhead thing to fix. Nvidia have been trying for a dozen drvers and have not been able to snuff the problem out.

If that's the case that's very unfortunate. I was convinced it was an issue on their end since i hadn't experienced this in any other game before, and i've been on the same system since 2020. I wasn't aware that was an issue with Nvidia though, thank you for letting me know

Definitely make sure your drivers are up to date as some improvements have been made. There's also a tool to monitor DPC latency that'll help you identify if that's the issue, called LatencyMon. But I bet my ass that'll be the case.