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 constantly crackling and cutting out.
Have tried every possible audio setting in game and updated drivers.
(On windows 10)
Adding on to my thoughts from above. I think it's a bad shader or something along those lines. The stuttering performance doesn't happen when I look up at nothing in particular. If I look at the ground, the stuttering comes back. I have been able to make the game playable by setting my vsynch to 1/4. Sometimes I can get away with 1/3, but most of the time I need to be at 1/4. It doesn't seem to be related to how good I set my graphics though. I am working on changing my settings based on the CPU usage (like I turned single strand hair physics and such). Will continue to test.
Testing continues: Taking off strand hair physics seems to have helped a lot. Dropped my CPU usage down and I'm not having as many issues. Could be where I am, though. Will continue to monitor.
Ok, it's not necessarily when I'm looking up....it appears to be when I'm not looking at the back of my character. If I swing my camera around to look at the front of my character when the sound starts to stutter, the stutter stops. Not sure what that means. Will continue to monitor.
Sadly didn't work. From reading through that thread it seems like it could be a CPU bottleneck issue. I'm personally running on an i5-9600 which is a few generations old. Curious what other people having the audio issue are running on.
Didn't work for me either.
I have an i5-8600 and a gtx 1060. That said, I have run the game on my Steamdeck with zero audio issues whatsoever. I don't think the deck's cpu/gpu are any more powerful than what I'm running on my pc, and my pc gets better fps and in game performance than the deck by far. I also have more ram than the deck.
Also pretty sure some people are running newer cpu/gpu than I am and still having this issue.
I suspect this is an issue with nvidia cards or realtek audio as it seems like more than a few people who have reported it are running that hardware. but I could be wrong
Same problem here... The worst was in city with many NPCs.
I tried everything and the only efficient thing for me was vsync 1/4, which means 15 FPS on my config. So I really hope the team is working on this problem, it makes the game unplayable.
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.
I played for several hours, returning the settings to high quality and still have no problems with the sound. As I said above, I turned off the system sounds in the mixer and set the vsync setting in the game to 1.2. Try it, maybe it will help someone.
Hello! I tried eveything, audio setting, drivers update and roll back, game configs, every app and config that other players recommend, and nothing worked, even after the last update :(
the last update hasn't changed a thing for me and the game is still unplayable with the horrible crackling sound and slowed like hell speech. It happend right from the start of the game ...damned unbelievable...
Yeah I have the exact issue. When I move around with my character, sometimes the sound evens out, but mostly it crackles and distorts. The only fix I found was putting the Vsync to 1/4, but that keeps giving me headaches.
