Re: Issues with apex and using an audio interface as the audio device

Adding on to this, if changing buffer size works, we should make a post for all Focusrite scarlet audio interface users that apex may have updated to eat more audio processing power. which they add up according to how many applications are generating audio events to the driver. for example in ASIO drivers with any DAW opened, one track of any software instrument VST under buffer size 32 should be okay with no crackling and popping. but 5 of them will definitely make it pop and crack. just turn your buffer size to a reasonable place covering all your audio needs and with the lowest latency. (buffer sizes directly influence audio latency.)

Oddly enough, this apparently just hadn’t caused any issues for me with anything else through blind luck or something, so I just didn’t even consider that could be a problem, but as it turns out this entirely fixed it, thanks for the tip lol

@wolf109909 

Thanks a lot for sharing this! That's really good info to know. 👍

/Kent

Hi, I came here to see if I could find any info on how to fix the same issue. I tried to decrease and increase the buffering size but I still have some crackling/robot noise problems when I boot up apex and have discord open while in a call. Any other things you would recommend to fix this? Wanted to point out I have played this game in the past and never have had this issue come up.

I actually didn't think I was gonna get a response from anyone haha. Thank you. Honestly most of this seems complicated to me but if you have a youtube video coming out to fix it then I will definitely check it out. Its weird how this only happens to Apex. I have the 2i2 3 gen btw.

I also had a friend with the same issue and simply changing the sample rate from 48 kHz to 96kHz in the focusrite software fixed the issue for him

I did not try that but i will give it a shot. Thank you for all of the help.

So I'm guessing its not my setup or my audio interface but just some driver problem/communication error between the system and the game?

Sounds good. I will try this out. I hope it works. Thank you for all of the input.

Ok so...I tried doing all of this. It seems like when I changed the buffer size only to 16 it worked. Tho if I tabbed out of my game. My mic reset and went back to crackling. I did it again and it seemed to work. Tho like i said if I tab out then it resets

Ok so its been longer time now and it seems to be working for the most part?

It seemed to continue working. Thank you for all of the help. If you do have a youtube channel or something please let me know. You deserve a subscriber or something man. You put time into helping out. Thank you for that.

Was gonna say, I have noticed if I switch to full screen it resets something in game or with my audio interface which brings back the crackling. Tho the buffer size stayed the same I had to change it, then change it again back to 16, then switched it back to borderless window mode, and only then did it fix itself and the crackling goes away. I can live with borderless tho its annoying when there is screen tear and all of that. Im curious on why full screen messes with the mic.

Well I managed to somehow breaking it. I guess tabbing out or even restarting the game breaks it all.

I managed to fix it again. Not gonna touch anything. Tho there is still some slight hiccups here and there. Kind of annoying im just gonna stop messing with it.

I wont lie, I got no idea what you are talking about. lol.

I guess. Still tho. I play any other game and I get no issues.

Well. Now that I think about it. I dont think its a discord thing. Cause audio comes out weird in recordings.