Last Epoch system audio issue

[GimpyCPU]

Just bough Last Epoch yesterday (Great game) however this game causes an issue I never experienced prior to that. I play PoE, Diablo 4, D2R etc and none of those games have a similar issue.

The issue I am having is I feel like LE is doing something weird with the sound and that happens is the sound of my machine will cut all together for like 5 seconds randomly only when playing Last Epoch. If I am watching a Youtube video while playing the video will stop and enter buffering state. During that time, the game doesnt have any sound at all. But its still visually playable.

For audio I use a Focusrite Scarlet and its pretty up to date
Driver Version: 4.102.4.735 (English) 2022/05/20

I do get some weird errors in dxdiag related to LE

Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
障害バケット 2029885951278874297、種類 5
イベント名: RADAR_PRE_LEAK_64
応答: 使用不可
Cab ID: 0

問題の署名:
P1: Unity.exe
P2: 2022.1.20.55355
P3: 10.0.19045.2.0.0
P4:
P5:
P6:
P7:
P8:
P9:
P10:

添付ファイル:
\?\C:\Users\jonathan\AppData\Local\Temp\RDRAFA4.tmp\empty.txt
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERAFB4.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERAFC5.tmp.xml
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERAFE2.tmp.csv
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERB022.tmp.txt

これらのファイルは次の場所にある可能性があります:

分析記号:
解決策を再確認中: 0
レポート ID: 5d83d064-dae4-4bc0-99e5-38d60f912165
レポートの状態: 268435456
ハッシュされたバケット: fd1baed82ccbab1b4c2b9a8494887eb9
Cab GUID: 0
+++ WER1 +++:
障害バケット 1902583272023448332、種類 5
イベント名: RADAR_PRE_LEAK_64
応答: 使用不可
Cab ID: 0

問題の署名:
P1: Last Epoch.exe
P2: 2019.4.40.50731
P3: 10.0.19045.2.0.0
P4:
P5:
P6:
P7:
P8:
P9:
P10:

添付ファイル:
\?\C:\Users\jonathan\AppData\Local\Temp\RDR54BE.tmp\empty.txt
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER54EE.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER54FE.tmp.xml
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER551C.tmp.csv
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER555B.tmp.txt

[psychodrive]

Hi there. Welcome to the game

Those radar pre leak bits indicate a possible memory leak.

There is a memory leak that the team is aware of and apparently will be addressed in next hotfix or 2.

That will hopefully come within next week or so based on what we know.

Hopefully this will address your issue. If it doesnt, then post your player.log files (search support.lastepoch.com for player) and dxdiag for more troubleshooting

[GimpyCPU]

Thanks I was trying to find log in the game folder but couldnt find it! I will look at it for more info and will update accordingly

[GimpyCPU]

Here is a copy of my Player.log, hopefully it has some good information about this issue

Player.log (98.6 KB)

[psychodrive]

I can’t see anything specific in the log file (that I haven’t seen in my own and I don’t experience this issue).

Your Focusrite seems like it is some pretty nice gear

I’m not a sound engineer, but I know Last Epoch uses FMOD for audio mixing. Maybe there is some weird incompatibility with FMOD and your setup?

Have you tried playing with on-board sound instead (even if it hurts your earholes :D)?

[GimpyCPU]

I did not!
Haha not an audiophile, Its the setup I use to record or play rocksmith with my guitar. Ill try the on-board one to see if I can reproduce the issue.

[GimpyCPU]

Update:
The on-board seemed fine, so after that I did some testing on the Focusrite.
I think I identified the issue, what is happening is I use a very small buffer to have no latency when playing Guitar. I’m not a sound engineer either but I think that what is happening is LE is overloading the buffer. I increased the size of 1024 and the issue seem to have stopped (Unless I was really lucky).

I will keep playing with these settings but I am hopeful for now.

Thank you for the help

[psychodrive]

No worries - really glad I could help - I hope it improves the experience for you

Welcome to the game