❗AUDIO ISSUES THREAD❗

[Emperor]

If you're having audio issues, provide description of the issues if available. Seen a ton of separate threads and figured I'd try to help congregate them into one place.

[Tiny Trees]

Автор сообщения: eispfogel GER

That should settle the "it is your PCs fault! I have no issues and sound is fine on my PC" to rest:
https://youtu.be/c5kCLcu8hdk?t=887

Timecode is 14:47

Good find. Thanks.

[Caboose]

getting none, was coop playing the campaign this afternoon with the wife. on her pc it was insane, crackilng, distorded, the voice feel like slow mo. the overall sound are ok, but voices are terrible

[trianglefan33]

as soon as i open the game and the menu pops up, my audio cuts out completely

[Tiny Trees]

Автор сообщения: JtDarth

Автор сообщения: Tiny Trees

You would think that the audio bug would have been patched by now, given Reach released three days ago.

I keep trying Reach now and again, but sound is still bugged.

I have also been looking in Win 10 sound settings, because some folk say their sound is fine. Also some folk have been able to fix their sound issue with a setting, but I had no such luck.

The sound issue isn't as simple as a switch to be flipped somewhere. If it's encoding related that means they need to go through and do cleanup after reencoding from source to keep quality, which is a lengthy process at the best of times. It means effectively starting from near-scratch on all the audio files.

Ah you were right.


https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/12/05/halo-reach-audio-issues-crackling-fix/

Quote from Halo devs,
""To update Halo: Reach for Xbox One and PC required entirely changing the encoding for the game’s audio, which has resulted in it sounding different from the original release."
"We are aware that areas of the title don’t sound like what you or we ideally want them to."
As for a fix, 343 Industries have said that it "will take some time to work through solutions to improve the overall experience for audio, and that work is already underway"."

[zenos]

Audio quality is atrocious, the worst I have ever heard in a game.. Weapon sounds and effecst are muffled while the rest is very harsh, and there are clicks and pops here and there.

[Tiny Trees]

I am thinking whether or not to refund, in relation to Halo: CE and Halo 2 being release next.

With those two games, I am guess the audio would be OK. They might be able to use the original PC audio.

Probably said this already but...

[Chrius]

I was getting crackling on the sound during gameplay. Following the "Bad audio quality" fix from here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection seems to have solved it for me. It was at 0 by default, tried 2 and 10, still wasnt perfect, changed to 100 and it seems fine now.

[DuringYet]

Автор сообщения: Chrius

I was getting crackling on the sound during gameplay. Following the "Bad audio quality" fix from here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection seems to have solved it for me. It was at 0 by default, tried 2 and 10, still wasnt perfect, changed to 100 and it seems fine now.

Not seeing a "Bad audio quality" fix section on the site you linked. Was it removed? Have another link?

[DSA]

Fix sound!

[AustrAlien2010]

Restarting the entire game, may remove the "crackling" noise in the soundtrack. Or at least for some time. So it seems something someone would be able to fix.

I still haven't found any way around the sounds becoming "distorted" during some in-between video sequences. Some voice-lines are difficult to hear, like there is some sort of major echo, distorting it. It´s like the audio is played too slow, or something...

Messing around with it's audio sliders can also improve the sounds from being "muffled" to some extend.


For me the echo is the biggest issue. Haven´t figured out anything to prevent that. (yet)
And it always happens at the same places, or during the same cutscenes.
And whenever the camera-angle changes, it may improve.

It´s kind of weird. I´ll keep looking into it. If I find something, I´ll let you know.

[Chrius]

Автор сообщения: DuringYet

Автор сообщения: Chrius

I was getting crackling on the sound during gameplay. Following the "Bad audio quality" fix from here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection seems to have solved it for me. It was at 0 by default, tried 2 and 10, still wasnt perfect, changed to 100 and it seems fine now.

Not seeing a "Bad audio quality" fix section on the site you linked. Was it removed? Have another link?

It probably wasnt solving the issue for everyone and they removed it...
The changed file is in: "C:\Users\*Username*\AppData\LocalLow\MCC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini
Look for AudioQualityLevel near the bottom.

[DuringYet]

Автор сообщения: Chrius

Автор сообщения: DuringYet

Not seeing a "Bad audio quality" fix section on the site you linked. Was it removed? Have another link?

It probably wasnt solving the issue for everyone and they removed it...
The changed file is in: "C:\Users\*Username*\AppData\LocalLow\MCC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini
Look for AudioQualityLevel near the bottom.

Ah, ok. I found this online after posting.

It did not fix it for me, though I am still tinkering with it. So far only lowering the audio quality has worked, but I don't like doing that for just one game, and changing it back etc.

Would prefer an ini fix or patch, which I will wait for. I'm glad some fixes are working for some people though! Thank you!

[orlandomagic]

patch the ******* game

[Tiny Trees]

Автор сообщения: Chrius

I was getting crackling on the sound during gameplay. Following the "Bad audio quality" fix from here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection seems to have solved it for me. It was at 0 by default, tried 2 and 10, still wasnt perfect, changed to 100 and it seems fine now.

Автор сообщения: Chrius

Автор сообщения: DuringYet

Not seeing a "Bad audio quality" fix section on the site you linked. Was it removed? Have another link?

It probably wasnt solving the issue for everyone and they removed it...
The changed file is in: "C:\Users\*Username*\AppData\LocalLow\MCC\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini
Look for AudioQualityLevel near the bottom.

I tried this, but it didn't fix it.

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I get a bit of crackling noise in the intercom. I get the dull guns sounds.

However I find it almost playable if I turn it up enough to make the gun sounds a bit louder. Am actually not playing on at the moment, and still hoping for a fix before refund time expires.

[Boat]

audio crackles to the point where it just hurts my ears,mainly on forge world maps (pit,sanctuary) and campaign,that's all i got rlly shame tho i enjoy those two maps