[PoE 2] Sound cracking sound

upvote....very annoying

Same here, also I think the CPU utilization is incredibly high just when idle and in town/Hideout not doing anything, constantly bouncing between 17%-20% w/ a AMD 3900X 12-core.

Same here, please @devs give us some input here what could be the cause.

Same here!
(Sorry for my bad english)
When i put the renderer on Vulkan it disaper, but the game become very very laggy :/
I think the crackling is link to the CPU solicitation, when there my browser open, the crackling sounds increase

Same here, it seriously make me not want to play, which sucks, because th4e game is great...

Swapping to Vulkan only reduces the amount and magnitude of the crackling, but it still persists. This is a major issue for me, anyone else have any luck with other fixes?

same for me

It's related to USB, especially if you've a audio headphones using USB. The developers should check better the audio engine used.

I'm wondering when they gonna fix this issue, is very annoying and only happens with this game. When i'm using the headset as bluetooth, no issue.

but as soon as I add a P2 the problem starts.
may need to test as a 'wireless' to see if the same apply.

I don't know what is going on but from my side I enabled the fps cap and had to limit the fps to Less than what my computer was pushing

I was playing at 230 fps and the sound disappered (slowly) by decreasing the fps max... it got quiter and quiter until 150 fps at that i couldn't hear it

same thing background fps I had to set it to 2 fps and it stopped buzzing in the back ground for me