POE 2 / 0.3.0 Bug Report / distorted and crackling Sound Issues

Yep, issue for me also.

Abyssal cracks/season mechanic is really bad, specifically when all the mobs come jumping out of the hole.

Sound is horrible and a decent amount of lag.

PS5, all video and sound settings tested, this includes TV, PS5, and game settings.

I have same problem with lightning arrow on ps5. Its very frustrating. It doing on every mapm

TEMPORARY SOLUTION - tele. to town, next warp to your hideout or warp to another act. Work on ps5 (not pro).

Here same problem. Since day one sound behaves very crazy, mainly when there is a lot on screen, like abysses. Lately had even more problems. Sound scratched like headset was broken (It was not). I'm afraid mapping will be next to unbearable with this sound effects. Nice to hear you are on it.

This is a huge problem

As a pin tactician who uses artillery ballista constantly, its unbearable. Abyss portion of maps are near unplayable. The sound crunches as if there's too much gain applied.

When there is too much going on on screen, the sound de-syncs and cuts out 90% of the time.

On top of that, the bug where the sound occasionally cuts out and is replaced by something that resembles the sound of an old dial up modem logging on is back.

In addition to the borderline unplayable performance issues on PS5, this sound thing is a huge stain on what has otherwise been a very enjoyable league start.

I Need to reboot every time because this cracked Sound. Also the laggs its really a joke. I hate myself that buy 80€ bundle to Support you guys…-

I think it has something to do with the vibration driver for the PS5, after I got that screeching sound the vibration in my Dualsense is totally gone. And as the PS5 controller uses sound to makes the "rumble" it seems they are connected.
And the controller made some weird audio when I was trying to solve the sound issue. Felt like it was a weird feedback between the controller and my speakers.

I tried everything, all sound settings and all vibration options off and after a restart of the gameclient I put them all to on again.

The vibration in my Dualsense is totally gone after the soundissue (yesterday) so now I try to reinstall the game on my PS5 Pro.

And GGG, fix the laggy servers on PSN please. Loading take ages... and I have never usually had any problems with it. Came with this league-patch.

Same issue here 😔

I have the same or similar issue (LS Deadeye) but for me I have steel series sonar enabled. Once the problem happens my audio is completely glitchy and garbled sounding.

The only fix I can apply that works is either restarting the computer or going into sonar settings and disabling the sonar engine and then reenabling it.

Once the issue happens, its a system-wide audio bug so nothing I do in-game will fix it. Like, even my USB connect/disconnect chime is a mess once the issue is happening.

I also seemed to notice that if I leave sonar disabled the issue does not appear to reoccur. That being said, I'm sure at least 50% of the issue is the shit sonar drivers. However, the issue never started happening until I started playing this update (.3) so it seems like POE2 is at least contributing to causing the issue with the sonar drivers.