KNOWN ISSUE: Audio Issues After 1.6.1

[FatsharkJulia]

@Axloss

could ppl update what hardware/settings they are using?

• Headphones/Speakers
• Windows 10, 11?
• Spatial Audio Settings?
• Game Audi Settings
• Any special settings in OS? (I couldn’t see that xbox has any, but perhaps not visible unless i have some better speakers connected).

Perhaps we can find a common denominator. Seems like spatial audio is a good candidate so far, since it’s also a setup we might not have too many of.

The experimental branch is handling audio stutter due to io latency when reading files from disk, this is likely something else. All of the “deadlocks” i looked at so far has been mixing sound, so likely a looooong stall.

To add to Axel’s request above…

From what we’ve been reading, it seems some players have been able to work around these issues using one or more of the options below:

1. Disabling Windows Sonic/Spatial Sound

and/or, the options below within the Darktide ‘Options’ → ‘Audio’ menu:

2. Changing ‘Sound Device’
3. Changing ‘Speaker Settings’
4. Changing ‘Audio Mix Presets’

If any of these have worked for you, please let us know here.