18.5.1 7.1 Surround Audio Bug

[Lord_of_Lords]

When I use my Corsair Void headset as the output device (from the in-game settings), I get huge frame drops and very corrupted audio streams.  The game sounds like someone is using Skype on dial-up.

My headset only supports 7.1 Surround and uses it's own audio card built into a USB dongle and it only supports the 8-channel, 16bit, 48000Hz encoding format.

Computer Specs:

AMD FX-9590 Eight Core Processor (4.70 GHz) - water cooled

16GB 2400 MHz Ram

Nvidia 960 for graphics and Nvidia 760 for Physx

Running the game in 1920x0180 with almost all graphic settings turned off (out of preference).

 

I can record a video if it would help.

[[DE]George]

Thanks for the report, we are looking into this.  A video would help if you can.

[Lord_of_Lords]

I forgot to mention that this is for Windows 10 64-bit.

Video is below.  I noticed that sometimes The Evolution Engine would crash to desktop but I wouldn't get a crash handler.

I also noticed that when I switch from 7.1 to stereo the effect is immediate but when I go from stereo to 7.1 I have to restart the game for the changes to take effect.

Here is the link for the video.  It's currently being processed.

http://sendvid.com/nm6xwsz5

 

I went ahead an removed my login screen from the video but the audio issues and stuttering start happening immediately when the background music starts (before logging in).

EDIT:

sendvid appears to be very slow so here is an alternate link: https://vid.me/SQ7E

Edited March 6, 2016 by Lord_of_Lords

[Lord_of_Lords]

Confirmed fixed in 18.5.3 however it doesn't sound as good as the first few seconds of audio in 18.5.[12] (before it started lagging behind).