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There are quite a few of us with this issue, but it tends to manifest itself differently for some people.

I only get the issue using LLE and it always takes right about 90 minutes to appear. Others have the same results as yourself. The devs are aware of it though.

Your theory about switching between 30 and 60 FPS was something I thought about as well. If I let my game just sit there on a world map for instance, I could never get the crackling to happen. I always had to actually play the game. Perhaps there is some merit in what you are postulating.

Anyone with more knowledge than me (which is most :p ) have any thoughts on this?

So far there is no official fix (that I know of) because no one can seem to narrow down exactly what the cause is. Shonumi did say that holding the tab key down for a few seconds tends to minimize the effect. I have not had an opportunity to try it out yet though.

On the latest revisions, try OpenAL as the audio backend. Increase the latency if you need to. Fwiw, Tales of Symphonia is the same (30 FPS in overworld/skits, 60 FPS everywhere else) and I can't get it to stutter when switching.

I do notice that Dolphin has some issues switching the FPS sometimes, e.g. I'll be in a city, watch a skit, and when trying to go from 30 FPS to 60 FPS, Dolphin seems to have a hard time figuring out what the FPS should be. Pressing Tab (temporarily disabling the framelimit) fixes this (as well as crackling audio after 90 minutes of gameplay, albeit, only for a short time). What is your framelimit? Try Auto, then try Audio if OpenAL doesn't do anything for you.

Let me know if that works BLACKSAMA. I was unable to get OpenAL to resolve the issue (and the latency delay on it was awful, even when I set it to its lowest level).

I did try OpenAL to no avail, but I did not touch the latency, since I had no idea what it meant/does, but now that you mention it and I did a mini search It was obvious to begin with /facepalm, I'm @ work ATM will try moving the latency on OpenAL once I reach home in 5-6 hours, thanks for your suggestion.

Framerate is Auto, I tried Audio and it did nothing regarding the issue (it actually lagged a tiny bit on Audio), I can not set it manually, because if I set it to 30 FPS the ingame sections @ 30 FPS will run at 15 FPS /sigh.

One other thing you can try is setting Limit by FPS. Technically, it's not as accurate when you turn it on, but it does help for some games.

LLE plus two hours of play ends up doing this for me on Animal Crossing. It gets worse if I change the internal res or go into fullscreen.

I also experience the same problem, for a period of playing the simulator keep repeat the sound from the other character... So weird... I try to open the game again then it seem to be alright.
Try to fix many ways but seem doesn't work. Hope on next version would fix this
According to what I notice then probably when the VPS turn to 45 then the sound start to clinching. Then it would become stable if I save or something. I currently play Rune Factory Frontier

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