[BUG] Audio stuttering

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I purchased/downloaded the game from Steam. When I start up the game, the main menu appears fine however the 'water animation' around the centre choices 'new game, options, exit', etc is choppy and the sound stutters a lot, also producing a quite irritating metallic sound. This happens even with the dialogue in the tutorial section (did not start a campaign yet due to this very issue). Otherwise gameplay is fine and runs smoothly. So far I think it's a problem with Bink videos, since I experienced this with Torchlight II cinematics as well ( .bik files), but so far I haven't found a satisfactory solution.

I have updated my graphics card driver, HD audio driver, installed RAD video tools and media codecs, disabled antivirus, lowered video quality, and tried changing speaker configuration, to no avail. Though my Nvidia driver does not let me disable the hardware acceleration for sound (most people seemed to have been able to fix this problem by disabling sound hardware acceleration).

Any help would be greatly appreciated - this is the first problem I have ever encountered which I could not fix myself after a Google search :)

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Are you able to change your default audio quality? I used to have mine set to something high and it occasionally caused some issues like you listed in some games, so I set it to 16 bits 44100Hz and it's been fine since.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I tried all the audio quality options, still no effect. I don't think the problem is limited to audio/sound...it seems to only affect bink cinematics - it is apparent even when I play .bik files with RAD Video Tools :/

I can run Mass Effect 3 and Hitman: Absolution at max settings with no problems at all, even Fallen Enchantress and Torchlight II which I mentioned in my original comment. When it comes to the cinematics or spoken dialogue though, knowing that the latter two games implement .bik files, I'd say therein lies the problem. I know computer problems always have a solution, however far-fetched it might be, but sometimes it never crosses your mind for example that a joypad connected to a USB port on your keyboard would prevent ME3 from running...and it's probably the case now that something seemingly unrelated is causing the glitch.

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