Crackling sound making it unplayable
Title screen, Varric doing his monologue and character creation all play sound with no problem but the second I got to the first cutscene with my rook and then into Mintrathous the sound is constantl...
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Exactly the same issue as everyone else. The only thing that even remotely helped was rolling back my NVidia driver but it seems like this might be a CPU issue. After rolling back the driver the crackling is there, but mostly when the load on the CPU is obviously high. When I tried streaming the game to a friend, it got much, much worse, and improve greatly when I stopped - I tested this a few times.
Considering what I paid for the game and the total lack of acknowledgement of this issue in the patch notes or the note on updates prior to the patch, I expect an update this week or I'll be petitioning Steam for a refund and advising others not to buy the game in this state. Irritatingly, your note says to share a save file and DXdiag, which can't be attached here, and I had to upload both to drive.
I was hitting about 60% usage tops, cut everything down to lowest setting, turned 4k off went 1080p. I can run cyberpunk in 4k ultra. Its not your processor.
I can't run Cyberpunk on Ultra, but I can smoothly run it on high, as well as other comparable games, so I'm totally with you. Right now my money is on something wrong between some Nvidia cards and the game, since I'm not seeing anyone with AMD reporting the same issue.
I have an AMD (7600xt) card and I am having audio cracking issues. It only occurs in areas with multiple NPCs and ambient noise (Mirathous, Treviso). The only solution that seems to work is tacking the V-sync down to 1/4. But that makes the game looks like molasses.
