I installed that mod and wow! It made a huge difference in the audio being able to clearly hear all the radio stations, conversations, effects, etc. It's a whopper at 11GB but it is worth it if you want to actually hear the world around you.If you are on oc than there is a mod on nexus mastering the audio. It's cool hearing the different radio stations playing in the background as you punk those hostile enemies of night city
In regards to audio crackling I wanted to share something that worked for me. I don't know what changed exactly but it solved it.
About a day before the 1.06 patched I bought a M2 drive and moved the game there to speed up load times. It was shortly after that, coincidentally, I started getting audio crackling. Damn, that stuff is maddening! Before this I was just trying tie Equalizer APO and Hesuvi fix for the audio which worked to a degree.
I was using the onboard audio from an Asus Z170-AR with a i5-6600K and 16GB RAM. Up until then it sounded fine. I moved the game back to the old drive thinking maybe it was the M2 drive that was causing it but...nope. Static continued non stop from that point on. I scoured the internet looking for fixes but the ones that always came up were "change the sample rate" which didn't do jack for me. All the stuff I tried
- Change sample rate from 24-bit to 16-bit on all rates.
- Disabled all audio enhancements
- Disabled all other audio devices
- Verified file integrity with Steam
- Unchecked Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device
- Disabled Spatial Sound for Headphones
- Borrowed a different sound card ( gotta try )
- Decreased the volume in game
- Changed the speaker type in game
There is stuff I am probably forgetting but it has been like this since the 1.06 patch and the following updates would not fix it.
I came across a Reddit post where a user said that they disabled XMP in their BIOS and that fixed the crackling for them. I checked mine and it was disabled. Since I was already in there I ran the Asus Easy Tune to load the optimal settings for gaming. Upon rebooting the one thing I could immediately see that changed was that the CPU OC lowered a bit from 22% to 17%. Got into windows, started the game....crackling is finally gone!!!!
I really have no idea what may have caused this since the audio crackling ONLY happed in CP. I have not changed anything in the BIOS for over 3 months. All other games were fine. Maybe some setting in the BIOS just didn't sit well with this game. I am just not that PC savvy enough to figure out what it might have been. Maybe some CPU OCing value or RAM timing didn't sit well with the game. I honestly don't know. I just hope this helps someone with their audio crackling by looking into their own BIOS settings and hopefully it helps them fix the crackling.