Annoying Crackling Sound

[Trisuniel]

So I had Dead Island for a while now it has always worked fine until I upgraded to GOTY from the Humble Bundle. Now whenever I'm in game I get this annoying crackling sound. I never had this issue until now. I have looked at suggestions I found on how to fix this but nothing has worked so far.

I'm using this headset: http://steelseries.com/us/products/audio/steelseries-siberia-v2-usb

Can anyone help me fix this issue?

[hendawg2020]

Here's the first thing I found regarding your issue. Have you already tried what is suggested here? http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2109429

[Trisuniel]

Nope, that didn't work. Still getting the crackling sound.

[Showtime, Synergy!]

This is probably a fix you tried already, but I had to tell Windows I had a 5.1 speaker setup instead of 7.1. (In reality I have neither, but use headphones with simulated surround via Dolby Headphone.) Anyway, that fixed it.

[Trisuniel]

How would I do that? I can't find any option to do that.

[Showtime, Synergy!]

Assuming Windows 7, right-click system tray audio icon -> Playback devices -> single-click on the device in question (mine is called Speakers - ASUS Xonar DGX Audio Device) -> click "Configure" button in lower left of window

Perhaps this is not relevant to your headset.

I just happened to try another fix from another thread, and that also seemed to work (not 100% confirmed, but seemed to). That fix was to disable SPDIF/Digital output on that same screen (Playback devices tab of Sound control panel app). Again, may not be something you see with your setup.

[Trisuniel]

This is strange. I set it to 5.1 and it fixed the issue. But then something strange happen. I set it back to 7.1 to test if doing this is actually to reason it is fixed. But now it is working on 7.1.

So setting to 5.1 and then back 7.1 what it was before somehow fixed the issue. Do you know how this managed to fix the issue?

[Showtime, Synergy!]

No damn clue. The bugginess of this game bothers me.

[Trisuniel]

Well at least the issue is fixed. Thanks for the help.

[Showtime, Synergy!]

You're welcome.

[LOGAN]

Well, on my 7.1 set I had horrible noise coming out of right speaker. These kind of sounds could possibly damage the speaker. It's sad this hasn't been patched long ago.

[Crushburn]

The problem is you cant really fix it sometimes it happens sometimes not. It happens with all the 7.1 setups. My best try was to take the audio.scr from Dead Island Riptide. But you can never fix it completely so sometimes you have the crackling sound or ultra loud sound on the right speaker. Just restart the game till you have no crackling sound then your good to go. It is a bit annoying but it helps.

[Showtime, Synergy!]

FWIW I fixed mine 100% (or rather, worked around the bug) by changing 7.1 to 5.1 in Windows' audio control panel.

That said, I do not use USB headphones, which seem to suffer worst from the bug. Maybe it is impossible to fix 100% on those.

[BrA1nE]

Old thread but I just fixed this after abandoning game for over a year due to the sound problem. After seeing this thread about configuring playback I went in properties and advanced and changed to 24bit, 192000hz Studio Quality and all working OK now, maybe I will get to finish the game finally!

[Giorgetti]

Solved by switch from 8channel to 2channel in xonar dx audio center

[mcq]

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