Audio popping issue

[minopoki]

There is another thing you could try: use the Vulkan API instead of DirectX 11. The Vulkan API is less CPU consuming than DirectX 11.

Tried, made no difference.
(video looks different though)

If you have an amd processor the game is not using all your cores, and is bottlenecking itself. Easy fix is too overclock your cpu till the official fix comes through. Luckily for AMD even if something is only using 2 cores, if you over clock enough you can get as much throughput as using all of them. To test this, try setting affinity to 2 cores in the game. Watch magic happen and stutters fade away... (till the credits... the credits always stutter... apparently a black screen and a woman singing is too much) (the flashy fight that rings of god of war not so much... smooth sailing... its the credits... the true killer of enjoyment.)

Tried, setting to 2 cores made video heavily lag, can barely control character. Setting to anything between 3-8 made no difference to stuttering at all.

Don't know why I even try anymore.


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For those theorizing about CPU stuff, an information I don't know you're considering is related to CPU temperature. Someone posted an explanation before here I think, they called it CPU throttling or something.
For me, when CPU temperature gets to 75ºC or above, it's most guaranteed to stuttering to occur, then after a few seconds (I think the system makes CPU reduce speed or something to reduce temperature), stuttering stops and temperature lowers to 70-72ºC.
That's a situation where, for me, stuttering is guaranteed to happen, but it can happen at pretty much anytime too, even in lower temperatures.

[Larirawiel]

Sadge that it does not work.

For those theorizing about CPU stuff, an information I don't know you're considering is related to CPU temperature. Someone posted an explanation before here I think, they called it CPU throttling or something.
For me, when CPU temperature gets to 75ºC or above, it's most guaranteed to stuttering to occur, then after a few seconds (I think the system makes CPU reduce speed or something to reduce temperature), stuttering stops and temperature lowers to 70-72ºC.
That's a situation where, for me, stuttering is guaranteed to happen, but it can happen at pretty much anytime too, even in lower temperatures.

75°C is high for a CPU. It should be around 50 - 60°C. And yes, at 75°C it can be that the throttling mechanism will kick in and slow down the clock rate. But then the entire game will slow down and not only sound stutters.



Cheers

[paga]

Sadge that it does not work.



75°C is high for a CPU. It should be around 50 - 60°C. And yes, at 75°C it can be that the throttling mechanism will kick in and slow down the clock rate. But then the entire game will slow down and not only sound stutters.



Cheers

75c isnt necessary high for a cpu, for my ryzen 5 5600x with a stock cooler AMD sees temps as high as 90c as normal. Really depends on the cpu, but if throttling is occuring then yes, cleaning out your pc will certainty help. Or reapplying thermal paste if you havent done that in a couple years.

[Larirawiel]

75c isnt necessary high for a cpu, for my ryzen 5 5600x with a stock cooler AMD sees temps as high as 90c as normal.

But the Bulldozer is different.

AMD says, 61°C:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-8120

So i do not wonder when the CPU throttles at 75°C.


Cheers

[minopoki]

75°C is high for a CPU. It should be around 50 - 60°C. And yes, at 75°C it can be that the throttling mechanism will kick in and slow down the clock rate. But then the entire game will slow down and not only sound stutters.

Oh wait, 75ºC is not my CPU temperature, it seems it's my Motherboard temperature, sorry for the confusion (not saying that's not too high though, I'm not really sure)
I have been looking at that meter while playing the game, next time I'll check the CPU.
But as I look at Open Hardware Monitor, it says the highest it got to (while playing the game) was 62,4ºC (GPU got to 78ºC though).

Those below are my highest temperature measures after having played the game (I think Temperature #1 would be motherboard temperature and #2 CPU socket temperature?):

But the Bulldozer is different.

AMD says, 61°C:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-8120

So i do not wonder when the CPU throttles at 75°C.

Mine is the FX-8370E
Highest temperature seems to be 70.5ºC
https://www.amd.com/pt/products/cpu/fx-8370e

[Larirawiel]

Oh wait, 75ºC is not my CPU temperature, it seems it's my Motherboard temperature, sorry for the confusion (not saying that's not too high though, I'm not really sure)

Maximum temperature for your chipset is at 105°C:
http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/m...s_pub_1.25.pdf

So the 76°C should be OK.

Mine is the FX-8370E
Highest temperature seems to be 70.5ºC
https://www.amd.com/pt/products/cpu/fx-8370e

Then the 62,4°C are also OK.


Cheers

[minopoki]

Maximum temperature for your chipset is at 105°C:
http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/m...s_pub_1.25.pdf

So the 76°C should be OK.




Then the 62,4°C are also OK.


Cheers

Naisu! Very happy to hear that （ ・∀・）

[AeroXaia]

75°C is high for a CPU. It should be around 50 - 60°C. And yes, at 75°C it can be that the throttling mechanism will kick in and slow down the clock rate. But then the entire game will slow down and not only sound stutters.

The game runs fine even with weaker CPUs or throttling up to a pretty good extent. As you slow it down, the sound craps out way before the other issues come up.

Having the sound distortion issue happen when it gets hot makes sense, and addressing that could partially help, but it's not the core cause of the issue and when more is going on in-game the sound will still break and distort.