Audio Bug {PoE2}

Never encounter this before, was first time. Was playing on alt character in Act 3. In the Arrograt area, when the dude was speaking in the background, the audio cut out. Like, there was music still playing, but sound effects were gone. Then the music also went out in the game.

I went into options, everything was turned up. Next I exit out to main menu, now this was a hard audio bug. Still no sound, nothing even in character select and server select.

The only fix was hard exiting the game and rebooting it, audio returned. Dunno if anyone else encounter this problem.

Weird... I have this exact same issue you're having. I lose every sound apart from the background music when the NPC talks in Act 3 Arrograt and only thing that fixes it is rebooting the game.

Yeah i got the same problem, strange audio bug, i reported it to Grinding Gear Games, hope it will get fixed in the next patch...

I also have this issue in Aggorat, specifically.

+1...Aggorat and all I hear is music and some water(?) sound effect

+1 very creepy xD

I didn't have this until i tried changing audio sources from high to low. Then everytime I step into aggorat(happens right after atziri atziri...) boom...nothing but ambient. The clunk from an uncut gem also works for some reason too. There are other effects that don't mute like waystone drops but that's only sometimes(using the neversink filter). The other change was I used dynamic culling but that's a graphic options. If I figure it out I'll post my fix.

I had stuttering so that's why I started even messing with the settings, looks like I just made things worse...

Graphics -> Advanced Settings -> Untick Dynamic Culling (It's still experimental even after all these years lol)

Went back to aggorat, stutters are back (on my system they seem to be tied to sound effects for some reason) but now the other effects sound normal once again.