The most frequent cause is a mismatch between your hardware settings and what the game expects. Right-click the Speaker icon in your taskbar and select Sound settings More sound settings (or Sound Control Panel). Right-click your active playback device and select Properties tab, set the "Default Format" to 24-bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality)
Noita's audio crackling is almost always a "Buffer Underrun." This happens when the game engine is so busy calculating particle physics that it forgets to feed data to the sound card fast enough. noita audio crackling
Lower Buffer Size: For those using external DACs or interfaces, lowering the buffer size to 256 or below (e.g., 192, 128) can sometimes eliminate the crackling. The most frequent cause is a mismatch between
External Audio Interfaces: Users with professional-grade hardware (e.g., Focusrite Scarlett, Behringer) frequently experience crackling due to how Noita handles ASIO or external USB drivers. Right-click your speaker > Sounds > Playback tab
And the crackling spoke clearly: