Audio Issues Apex Legends
I have been having problems with my audio on apex legends. Every time I play I lag and my audio is really laggy. Like we would kill a team and then 20 minutes later i finally here the gunfire from th...
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I've been having this frustrating issue for 3 weeks now. It renders the game nearly unplayable, the player not able to effectively operate in their surroundings when most of the auditory feedback is muted and delayed. Essentially, during almost every gunfight, my audio cuts out with small sound bits indiscriminately being emitted. Whether I win the fight or not due to this hindrance, the audio eventually catches up minutes later in one loud jumble of mess. This issue has cost me many kills, fights, and wins, and is incredibly infuriating when you're trying to enjoy the thrill of a hectic situation.
I've tried reinstalling my Realtek HD Audio Drivers, reinstalling Origins and Apex Legends, repairing the game, moving my USB headset into different ports, and constantly tweaking game, sound, and Windows settings to no avail. The developer team has time to add a completely useless weapon, but can't look into this huge problem?
After doing some digging, I've discovered a solution that may help people with the same situational problem I was having. This fix is mainly concerned with the game's volume, whereas being below 100% in the in-game audio settings apparently causes unwarranted problems. Before, I had my volume setting at 40% and experienced the audio bug quite frequently along with some distortion issues and extended periods of sound delay. Now that I set the volume to 100% and instead tweaked the volume through the Windows volume control slider, the issue is much less frequent and I can now hear things normally most of the time. There are still times where the sound delays, but with this small configuration it has become a rarity.
Another potential fix, for NVidia Users with ShadowPlay, is to in fact turn off ShadowPlay. I personally haven't tried this myself with having found a solution that works for me. But if the aforementioned fix does not work, then it's worth a shot.
Something this game-breaking should not be included with the in-game sound settings. Perhaps the Apex team and their future updates will add some more polish to the game and make it better. Here's hoping.
EA_DavidCommunity Admin
Thank you for the details @sutibn. I'd definitely be interested in the sound settings of those still encountering this.
Im having the same audio lag but on Xbox, what do my sound settings have to do with Apex being bugged? FIX!
no problem on my pc, but happen on my ps4 every time in skull ... same for all my friends + lag during gu, fight
Music and lobby volume at 5 and 6 respectively. SE and Diag at 100. Sound in background and convert incoming chat to text on. Play text chat as speech off.
i have Astro A50s. (usb) sounds like a lot of peoples issue too,
also i have a ryzen, which i see a lot have this and the same issue, i stopped playing... playing a shooting game, but not knowing your being shot at.... makes it difficult and well... *
- I just want to reply to this to say that this bug has been affecting me since launch making the game unplayable. I tried ever fix under the sun however turning of geforce experience fixed it. It was either this or the audio setting in apex called "sound in background" I set to ON. Im not sure which of these fixed it but thank you so much
Nevermind. The problem came back and it's more common than ever. This is downright infuriating to deal with and makes the game absolutely unplayable. I cannot hear jack *, and the little sound bits that do squeeze out of this abomination of game audio are either delayed by minutes or smeared into a creepy, distorted mess. I was expecting more out of this balance update, like a bug fix to this oddly specific issue. I'm disappointed. It's annoying when I'm at a huge disadvantage in a game where I previously found a lot of fun to play with friends.
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