How to fix Starfield’s audio bug and sound issues

Some Starfield gamers — together with me — are experiencing an odd audio bug that causes lacking dialogue and sound results alongside echoed sound distortion. The problems look like impacting Starfield on Xbox Sequence X.

The audio points appear to start randomly. Typically, there will probably be no dialogue or sound results in any respect — simply Starfield’s scored music. Different instances, I can hear dialogue but it surely’s completely distorted, like I’m listening to individuals speaking underwater. It’s not a game-breaking bug, but it surely doesn’t make Starfield rather a lot more durable to play; having no sound results means I’m lacking useful audio cues, whereas the echoed dialogue is simply completely annoying.

Starfield developer Bethesda Recreation Studios has not commented publicly on the problem, nor has it responded to Polygon’s request for remark. Fortunately, there appears to be a fast and simple trick to fixing this subject: Do a tough restart on the sport. You’ll wish to be sure you absolutely shut Starfield with a tough exit as a substitute of utilizing Xbox’s fast resume characteristic, which suspends the sport fairly than really closing it.

To do the arduous shut, push the Xbox button in your controller to open the menu. Spotlight Starfield within the menu and click on the menu button (the small, right-center controller button with three traces). From there, choose “stop” to completely shut the sport. When you begin up Starfield once more, the audio subject needs to be resolved. If it’s not, absolutely shut Starfield once more and provides your Xbox console a restart, too.

The dangerous information is that this isn’t a everlasting answer. I’ve skilled the audio bug twice now. At the very least it’s a simple repair! We’ll replace this story ought to Bethesda roll out a everlasting repair.