The release of 1.6.1 has introduced some unintended issues that result in audio stuttering or distortion, sometimes accompanied by a Deadlock crash. Any updates will be shared in the comments and linked below. UPDATE 06/12 [image] KNOWN ISSUE: Audio Issues After 1.6.1 Tech…

I have this issue also since the lastest update. Every map and on every run the game sounds like this at a certain point and then never stops. I use audio cues religiously in this game. More so than I think any other game. So this breaks Darktide for me completely.

I can confirm I also have the same sound issues linked starting from today. I’ve verified my files through the fatshark launcher, restarted my pc and still encounter the same audio bug in missions. The odd part is that when playing yesterday for an extended period I encountered no such issues. Edi…

Yeh came here to see if I was alone with this issue. Started today post update. Distored sound/ glitching sound and then no sound . Def makes the game harder- maybe it could be a new havoc modifier :rofl:

Yes, I have also encountered this problem. The audio lag is very severe The game will crash and return to the desktop This kind of thing keeps happening

Tried again on the radar/ sky map. Huge sections of static audio or just nothing. Wasn’t affecting my friend on ps5. I’m on pc. Obviously completely unplayable at the moment,

I’ve created a dedicated post for this issue, I’m merging this in to KNOWN ISSUE: Audio Issues After 1.6.1 .

[image] Audio stuttering can be alleviated by changing the speakers to headphones and reducing the mix to low (some people also say that high mix can solve this problem)

also i went into my audio device settings and changed the Hz to higher quality on the reccomendation of a dude on discord called Max Biker, it seems to have worked, hope other people see this and try it

the experimental build did not work, exact same issue, however changing the audio to headphones + high range worked for me

KNOWN ISSUE: Audio Issues After 1.6.1

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support

FatsharkJulia December 5, 2024, 3:48pm 10

Hi all, we’ve identified some issues relating to audio. For those of you on PC - could you try switching to our experimental build using the instructions here, and see if there’s any improvement please?:

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KNOWN ISSUE: Audio Issues After 1.6.1

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