How to fix audio crackle in Xenoblade Chronicles?

[Helios]

Ah. That may be it. Every report I've seen with people having issues with Xenoblade on capable hardware ended up being because of HD textures. If it's a DDS pack, you can try enabling the option to prefetch custom textures if you have enough RAM. That should remove stuttering you're getting. If it's a PNG pack, forget about that option. PNG packs decompress *huge* in memory, and even 32 GB probably wouldn't be enough.