Did you make sure you use Enable audio throttle? I don't get the garbled sound.
(08-30-2011, 09:02 PM)Bighead Wrote: Seems the audio crackling happens in LLE as well. I have used multiple revisions, couple in the 7000's, v3.0, and v3.0-71. Problem happens in all. Audio begins to sound garbled and crackly. My specs are: Intel Core i5 2500k at 4.8Ghz, 8GB DDR3, and GTX560. Using the region patch I get 30 FPS solid, 3x internal res, 1920x1080 monitor res, all filtering setting jacked. FPS never drops below 30 (but does hit 31 here and there), but with LLE audio crackles after awhile, especially when I'm messing around in the menus. It happens usually after about 30m-1h of gameplay. It might happen because of the 30 FPS patch, dunno, never tested it. Game running at 25 FPS isn't smooth enough for my eyes.
The only revision I found that has worked for me, was the one by FilthyMonkey on the page found HERE. It is v3.0-71 with the Xenoblade patch included.
Unfortunately I have to use HLE for this revision. I wanted to test LLE to see if the crackling is resolved, but it sounds awful because the pitch of the audio seems to be a lot lower than it should be. But using this revision + HLE, I put in a solid 3 hours and have yet to hear any audio distortion.
Edit: I have also failed to mention I've tried all kinds of settings as well: JIT and JITIL recompiler, lock threads to cores, DSPLLE on thread, enable audio throttle, XAudio2 and DSound backends, FPS limiter off, on and off for all options. Nevertheless, when the gameplay starts to reach the 1 hour mark, the audio starts getting all crackly even with LLE. The only resolution is to save, close the game, reload (or use the revision with HLE I mentioned before). The longer I leave it run, the worse the audio distorts and sounds all garbled.
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Asus P8P67 Pro
OCZ Agility 2 60GB SSD
G. Skill RipJaw X 8GB 1600
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Superclocked
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro
Thermaltake ToughPower 750W
Rocketfish Aluminum Full Tower Case