I recently purchased the game through steam. All the sound in the game is sort of stuttering or skipping pretty much all the time. I noticed that it stops doing that at some point during loading screens between locations and in hubs, when you are standing at certain places, for example next to the armor merchant in the ruined era starting hub, or an edge of the hub map.
I looked over the forums an only could find one mention of such behavior in September, but nothing was done or explained what could be done to resolve the issue. All the drivers are up to date, the settings are at medium.