Audio Glitching/Stuttering in Steam Games After Recent Steam Client Update

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Sta Barbara 7 月 3 日下午 8:58

Hi all,

I'm having an ongoing issue with audio stuttering and chopping when playing games through Steam. This started right after the recent Steam Client Update and affects all games, regardless of intensity or size (e.g., Hitman: World of Assassination, Ace Attorney Trilogy).

Symptoms:
- Audio starts off fine, then after 10–15 minutes begins to stutter or drop intermittently.

- Issue occurs whether I'm using speakers, headphones, or monitor audio.

- Happens even when I don’t alt-tab or have background apps open.

- Issue persists even after disabling the Steam overlay and hardware acceleration.

- Not present in non-Steam applications (e.g., YouTube, VLC, etc.)

What I’ve Tried:
- Reinstalled Steam

-Verified game files

-Disabled Steam overlay + Steam Input

-Changed audio output devices and sample rates

-Disabled GPU audio devices (e.g., NVIDIA HD Audio)

-Ran LatencyMon — no DPC issues detected

-Clean boot with all non-Microsoft services disabled

-Tried offline mode (but some games require online access)

-Updated audio and GPU drivers

System Notes:
- Games run perfectly otherwise (no FPS drops or crashes).

- No audio issues outside of Steam games.

- Nothing changed in my hardware setup — this started immediately after the latest Steam update.

Any thoughts?

It seems like something in the recent Steam client is interfering with the audio stack at runtime. I'd appreciate any help, tips, or confirmations from others experiencing this. Would love to know if there's a workaround — or if a rollback is possible until Steam fixes this.

Thanks in advance!

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BleppyBoo 8 月 10 日下午 2:43

I have had a similar issue but with differences. There would sometimes be performance drops as well as outside audio being affected. From what I've tested it also was affected by the controller sticks being moved around. Still trying to figure out what it could be because I'm so close to just reinstalling windows

Dark Matter 8 月 21 日下午 6:30

引用自 Sta Barbara：
Hi all,

I'm having an ongoing issue with audio stuttering and chopping when playing games through Steam. This started right after the recent Steam Client Update and affects all games, regardless of intensity or size (e.g., Hitman: World of Assassination, Ace Attorney Trilogy).

Symptoms:
- Audio starts off fine, then after 10–15 minutes begins to stutter or drop intermittently.

- Issue occurs whether I'm using speakers, headphones, or monitor audio.

- Happens even when I don’t alt-tab or have background apps open.

- Issue persists even after disabling the Steam overlay and hardware acceleration.

- Not present in non-Steam applications (e.g., YouTube, VLC, etc.)

What I’ve Tried:
- Reinstalled Steam

-Verified game files

-Disabled Steam overlay + Steam Input

-Changed audio output devices and sample rates

-Disabled GPU audio devices (e.g., NVIDIA HD Audio)

-Ran LatencyMon — no DPC issues detected

-Clean boot with all non-Microsoft services disabled

-Tried offline mode (but some games require online access)

-Updated audio and GPU drivers

System Notes:
- Games run perfectly otherwise (no FPS drops or crashes).

- No audio issues outside of Steam games.

- Nothing changed in my hardware setup — this started immediately after the latest Steam update.

Any thoughts?

It seems like something in the recent Steam client is interfering with the audio stack at runtime. I'd appreciate any help, tips, or confirmations from others experiencing this. Would love to know if there's a workaround — or if a rollback is possible until Steam fixes this.

Thanks in advance!

Did you find a fix for your Audio Dropout issue? I have the same issue, only with Steam Games, YouTube and other audio apps work flawlessly without issue. I am using headphones btw.

DeathGunner02 9 月 14 日下午 8:01

Any update? Im having the same issues where im getting bad stuttering and audio skipping, big one being helldivers 2, no man sky, and now chivalry 2 playing through the xbox app

de_m313R 9 月 15 日下午 3:13

Same here - Audio cracks or complete loss of audio for several seconds accompanied by a major performance drop with heavy lag and 10-15fps on the HUD, fps and audio issue always go hand in hand. I updated from 3.7.13 to 3.7.15 beta, improved but didn‘t fix the issue. It seems it gets triggered when there is a lot of audio going on, racing games or cutscenes with heavy dialogue and action. Once triggered the first time only a relaunch of the game will help. Was able to play a complete mission in RDR2 on ROG Ally Z1E, thought it was fine now, but it started happening again after 1h of playing. Very weird issue…

THE INEVITABLE 9 月 16 日上午 4:33

i am the same here whether it is a non intensive game like celest or an intensive game like hit man the audio keeps glitching or bugging out and then eventually drops out

BootyGoon2099 17 小时以前

Hi, I am currently experiencing this issue now. No matter what game I launch I am unable to play without heavy lag and audio giving out. RDR2 is aggressively lagging I cant walk 5 steps without stuttering and audio chops, Helldivers 2 plays well for 20 mins then audio starts to chop and visuals start to lag. This started for me about 2 weeks ago and I have yet to see a change.

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