With version 235, I would occasionally get garbled sound at game startup, but exiting and restarting the game would solve this. Then Steam dropped version 235 from the beta list and force upgraded SOTR to version 243, and now the sound is randomly garbled or it goes silent for a few seconds. My system: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, Intel 3770K 3.5 ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce 780ti enthusiast video card, Creative Fatal1ty X-Fi sound card. I changed the settings for the sound card from 24 bit 48000 hz to 16 bit 48000 hz, which helped a bit. I still get the garbled sound and silence but less often, and if the sound is garbled, alt-tabbing to desktop and returning to the game usually fixes it a while.

 

I don't know if it would work since outside system restore, my computer file knowledge is limited but, maybe re install the sound files or something? IDK. :l

The problem is with the game. Version 235, had the garbled problem, maybe 1 in 5 times when it was started. Exiting and restarting cured the problem. Version 241 cycles on and off with the garbled sound and/or going silent at various spots in the game. I'm pretty sure that version 241 update actually reinstalled the entire game.

 

Try updated your sound card driver and the graphics card driver.

I'm not having problems with any other game. I'll check, but it's unlikely there is a new sound card driver and little chance this is an issue with the video card driver as the graphics are fine. Other people have posted about the same problems at steam community, and as in my case the problems started with an update. In my case, with version 235 or older, if the sound didn't start off garbled at initial start up, it never went bad, while with 243, it goes bad randomly, and now also goes silent.

 

 

Edited December 14, 20187 yr by rcgldr