Constant crackling sound issue

Can't play anymore because of this sound issue.

All game sounds goes off and and loud crackling noise starts. Only way to make it stop is to close all programs that is making any sounds.

Happened one time in act 1 merveil's lair. Now it is happening constantly in act 2. 3 times in a row in western forest.

Thought it might have something to do with lacerate so I unequip it and put it in my stash, still got sound issues. I have reverb disabled.

Character: Pemik_lacerater.

Me too, reported elsewhere!

Even the mighty Pohx has it so I'm thinking this one's getting fixed:)

Just did one map in standard with other character, no issues. In prophecy league I cleared fellshrine and didnt' get any sound problems. When I went back to western forest it started again.

But this time it started exactly when one of those suicide bombers exploded So it might have something to with those.

So, enemies that explodes might be the cause of this.

Tested once again with standard character.

I went in western forest with my infernal blow character. Infernal blow didn't trigger sound problems. Also I let enemies explodes and even that didn't cause any problems.

So I went back to prophecy league and after couple minutes sound started crackling again right after group of enemies exploded by themself. Had to close poe and twitch to make it stop.

Yup, I had the same issue.

GGG, the sound changes you guys made in 2.3.0: they've totally screwed up sound in the game for a lot of people. I've noticed other reports for no sound and sound dropping out. GGG, what happened? The game is unplayable in this new league now.

My system...

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
NVIDIA GTX 680
Auzentech X-Meridian 7.1 2G (C-Media CMI8788 Oxygen HD chip)


What happens to my client...

After may be an hour of gameplay combat sounds cause stuttering and crackling. It gets worse and worse until unplayable. Sitting idle the background music and ambient sounds are fine.

Hi again.

Little bit of update on this matter:

I played today couple hours and didn't get any crackling sound issues like yesterday so I thought GGG had fixed the issue. But the issue started again while I was fightning normal malachai with my new ball lightning character 15 min ago.

The situation was quite a bizarre because it looked like malachai somehow glitched. Malachai was doing his tentacle attack but in middle of his animation he teleported to where the third heart is and gained that protective shield. So his tentacles was in middle of the room but rest of the body was where the third heart was. Half a second later all sounds dropped off and loud crackling started.

It looks like many people have problems with sounds turning off but not with loud crackling sound? Any words from mods?

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PoX_89 wrote:

It looks like many people have problems with sounds turning off but not with loud crackling sound? Any words from mods?

My sound doesn't turn off completely, but it does turn off for a second or so, then back on. And I also have the crackling like you.

When it's not so bad, it's sound off intermittently for a while when in combat, then ok.

When it's bad, it's sound off intermittently, plus crackling, and that goes on and on in every single combat until I exit the game.

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cipher_nemo wrote:

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PoX_89 wrote:

It looks like many people have problems with sounds turning off but not with loud crackling sound? Any words from mods?

My sound doesn't turn off completely, but it does turn off for a second or so, then back on. And I also have the crackling like you.

When it's not so bad, it's sound off intermittently for a while when in combat, then ok.

When it's bad, it's sound off intermittently, plus crackling, and that goes on and on in every single combat until I exit the game.

How often does this happen to you? once every hour or more? For me it is quite irregular, sometimes 2-3 times in an hour, sometimes it may take couple hours until it happens.

I guess there isn't really anything we can do to fix this now so better just sit tight and wait.

I had the loud crackling on every difficulty in the first merveil cavern when i enganged the lightning daughter.
The first time it didn't even stop when she died and i had to restart poe to make it go away.
Some really short but still really loud crackling happend kinda "random" (guess its not :D ) troughout the rest of the acts sometimes.


Didn't have the really short crackling spikes for a longer time now...no clue why...maybe it stopped when i stopped using lacerate...not too sure about that.

the lightning daughter crackling is still there

I can confirm the same issue.

A fix for that is to go into POE's sound options:
switch to a differnt sound output -> apply-> then re-change to your main output -> apply again.

The drivers will be reload on the run and sound works again without restarting the client.