I've seen a few others report this issue but I'm having it as well. Basically I get cracking audio as soon as I load into Minrathous. It sounds awful and the dialogue from Varric sounds crackly and distorted as well.I tried verifying that my sound drivers are up to date (they are), tried reinstalling them (no change in the issue) and I also tried tweaking every audio setting in the game to see if that changed anything. No dice there either.I also checked my audio settings and I don't have any enhancements enabled nor do I have spatial sonic sound on.At a bit of a loss as to how to fix this. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks. I tried that as well and sadly it didn't fix the issue for me.I don't get any audio issues in the menu or even in the intro cinematic. But as soon as I get into the game basically the audio is just...messed up.

Also having this issue. I've gone down the same list of possible fixes and nothing is working, so I'm not sure what to do.

i have the same issue, opening scene in minrathous is just a lot of crackling and the dialogue is very sluggish. it's very bad and quite unplayable at the moment...my motherboard is a GIGABYTE Z370P D3, i5-8400 and a RTX 4060 Ti. i don't think i have any enhancement at the monent, i'll check. Wow that plus the no arrow keybind problem, that's quite a bad launch...

Well I just rolled back to a previous Nvidia driver and I still have the exact same issue.I'm at a loss here. I've tried different drivers, disabling enhancements, changing the sample rate and bit depth, tweaked every single audio setting in game to different settings, tried different audio jacks....nothing works. Very frustrating.I hope Bioware has a fix for this soon.

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royalpriest
Seasoned Newcomer
6 months ago
I'm having the same issue. I didn't notice any problems until I tried to go to Dock Town. When in the busy street sections with rain and nearby fires, dialogue between companions and NPCs is full of annoying cracks and static.
i7 4790 3.6GHz / RTX 4070 Super 12GB / SSD / 16 GB DDR3 PC3-12800 800 MHz, Dell Alienware AW3418DW GSync 3440x1440 21:9 3k at 100Hz / Creative Sound Blaster Z / Windows 10 10.0.19045.5011 / Nvidia Driver 566.03
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
6 months ago
Hey Everyone,

If you are running into an issue with sound crackling or cutting out. Try disabling any extra sound features on your device (Like Dolby/DTS or Windows Sonic), and disable the 3D audio setting in-game.

After, restart Veilgaurd and let us know if this continues.

If this continues after today's 1.0.0 patch, please let us know the following:

EA ID (PSN ID/Gamertag):

Which platform are you on?

What type of audio device are you using?

If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip...

If on PC, share a Save file for our team to look at.

If on PC, please share a DxDiag file and an EA app Error ID Number

Cheers!
fenderchris
Newcomer
5 months ago
Still happening for me.

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