Scratchy/crackling audio in Warband

[yannis390]

Hey guys. I recently got a new PC (about a week and a half ago)
Specs: http://imgur.com/a/Zqkqu

I installed Mount&Blade: Warband and launched it to edit my settings but was almost instantly greeted by the menu music having a terrible scratchy noise to it as if it's being played on an old time record but very scratchy. Loaded into a game after turning off music but even the FX had scratchy noise. Movement on the map, ambient noise in villages/towns, even when clicking on buttons.
I've looked everywhere for fixes; steam, reddit, friends but to no avail.

Here's a list of things I've tried so far to fix it.

-Update sound card drivers
-Update graphic card drivers
-reinstall the game
-restarting PC
-deleting the rgl_config file
-changing "use_winmm_audio = 1" to "0" in rgl_config
-plugging my headset into a different port
-turning off variable audio
-changing from DirectX9 to DirectX7 in the configuration of the game
-tried to turn off hardware acceleration on my sound card but found no option to do so

I came here as a last resort pretty much in hopes that anyone has encountered the same issue and found a fix.

 

[Horatius]

I have no idea what the problem is but you could try non-steam.
Anyways I really hope that the RAM you said you have on the picture is faulty, if not those 16gigs are quite bad. New computers run nowadays 1600MHz+ and with 16 it is even higher so that 1000 can almost not be true.

 

[yannis390]

I have no idea what the problem is but you could try non-steam.
Anyways I really hope that the RAM you said you have on the picture is faulty, if not those 16gigs are quite bad. New computers run nowadays 1600MHz+ and with 16 it is even higher so that 1000 can almost not be true.

I'm almost completely sure Pririform Speccy is showing the base frequency. It's DDR meaning it would be 2133 MHz.
Also what do you mean with "non steam" are you suggesting I buy a copy of the game not on steam or..?

 

[yannis390]

So I just fixed my game. Tried one of the oldest fixes in the book and it worked; running the game as an administrator.
I also updated my USB drivers but that didn't seem to have done anything towards fixing it, but might for other people with this issue.