The highly anticipated Darkest Dungeon 2 came out just yesterday, and players have already run into a potentially aggravating issue. Specifically, players may find that the in-game audio will come out bugged in some way, or even not play outright. Fortunately, a few potential solutions do exist for this issue, so you don’t have to settle for having your immersion ruined while playing. This guide will go through some of these methods for fixing the audio in Darkest Dungeon 2.
Before doing any concrete fixes, you may want to take a look at Darkest Dungeon 2’s system requirements and see if your PC meets them. You can find the system requirements by scrolling down the Steam page and going past the “mature content description.” If that’s not the issue, head to the audio settings in-game and see if you have your volume set too low.
What you can do to fix Darkest Dungeon 2’s audio
If everything looks correct and you still encounter audio issues, try updating your anti-virus and firewall software. This can help combat harmful files that can surface when installing the game and potentially slow or even crash the game. Alternatively, you can update your audio drivers by opening the website of your motherboard manufacturer and installing the latest versions of those drivers. This should allow the game to run more smoothly and, hopefully, resolve some of those pesky audio bugs.
Additionally, if you use a particularly powerful graphics card for your PC, the answer may lie in your current graphical settings. High graphics settings may bog down your game and inadvertently contribute to some of these audio bugs, especially since, according to many players, Darkest Dungeon 2 has quite a number of optimization issues in its current launch state. Try and lower your graphical settings to see if that improves the audio. Fully optimized graphics only mean so much if your audio can’t keep up.
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