Hi there,
my audio is scratching (or how to write it? maybe ticking?) when i start playing the game. In video it is not as loud as I play the game… Dont someone know what is it? In other games its OK… The problem is when I want to play on headphones its terrible, on speakers is the loud hidden by other sounds…
Its better hearable on headphones…
Thanks for replies and sry for my English 
I am net bandwidth limited… (so i didnt listen to your sample), but generally this happens with file fragmentation / corruption.
Jitter is my guess the sound we are hearing… (mismatched parts of sound sample overlapping, in such hug3 scale makes a machine/industrial sawtooth sound…?
Redownload files.
I have had a few games go this way over the years. the one that first tweaked me I had to fix it (not the games fault), was a colin mcrae rally game I had bounced onto an SSD.
Consumer class drives and OSs dont really care for data integrity… soz- they love have perfect data but they arent always keen to keep it so. We get what we pay for… liking those supercheap samsung drives pushing past tri level cells? They can put 30% less chips in them… sure they are reliable!
Hm, ok, I will try to repair the game, but I think its something between HW and SW. I hear it mostly when I ALT+TAB onto desktop. My suggestion is that it might be external sound card (I have Audigy FX)
My rig is:
i5-7400
Asus GTX1070OC
16GB RAM
OS on 960Evo NVME
Game is installed on 2TB SSD corporate Samsung SSD
Audigy FX (the noise is hearable on both jacks - front and back, but front is now unplugged from sound card - for sure). I have to try it on integrated sound card
Speakers: Logitech Z series
Headphones: Senheisser GSP300
You know, my problem is, that if I have had components for few bucks, I can deal with it, but this cost really a lot of money and Im a little disappointed
For example… Started OS (Win10Pro64bit) - nothing is “ticking”, do something on web -still nothing, start Steam - still quiet, start KCD - hear something in backround (because the music is playing its barelly hearable), then in Menu I can hear it, ALT+TAB to desktop hear it really noisy and when I quit the game, “ticking” is over. After that I start another game (for example Civilization or Battlefield and its OK, no noisy ticking)
Software mixing levels and clipping due to volume overload? Hmm will think about it.
I hate creative due to dodgy dodgy software support.
Bought the auzentech prelude a decade ago due to their arangement to have creative maintain the drivers properly.
I do use an E5, and true to cr3ative quality has horrible software.
I would use motherboard sound to output an alternate digital signal to your external box (avoid usb)
I prefer coax, if available, as it avoids two stages of conversion,… and arguably gives better sound quality from cables about one third the price…
Tried really a lot of posibilizies… Disconnect everything AC/DC from same el.phase to avoid interference (when playing on headphones with speakers off from AC) and some other things (take speakers away from other cables), move the router away from PC.
Nothing, still the same…
Have to try integrated sound card alternative, but later. Its trip time
One more thing… Im quite OK with Audigy, because this HW card support also Win10. Everything was OK till KCD.
And another question… Do you think It will be better if I resolde cables for speakers? Its not a problem, I have a soldering station… Its Logitech X230 - satellities are plugged into subwoofer with coax and from subwoofer to PC is jack
I wouldnt touch those speakers with a soldering iron. They just are not cost / time good value investment… and very unlikely to yield any improvements at any level.
Logitech patented crossoverless driver tech. (joke and a half)… they are cheap. Ijust gave away a $200 set of logi 2.1s.)
garage sale any old amp (pre 1988/integrated circuits)… for about $20 you will upgrade your sound and system capability about 100%. and just keep rotating out cheap shitty garage sale speakers until you find a musical set…
prolly spend less than $50 total and will have a system that $1000 wouldn’t beat out. (sure, with sound formats and connection methods, and remotes, and lots of buttons… but… an old (musical amp) run from your external sound card will give you a grade of sound than no one has had since the late or mid nineties.
whilst your at it,… keep an eye out for legacy cd players… and grab great discs from thrift stores for about $2… also ; a system of this calibre will reveal how shitty compressed music sounds versus uncompressed,… and should reveal sampling rate differences etc…
much easier to go old for low cost high quality, rather than using modern stuff that costs a fair chunk and offers mid fi at best… (Unless you spend a lot more than a pc)
Next time I walk past a net connection I will listen to your audio byte and get an actual diagnosis… 
Rereading original post, after game start can you tab out and load the mixer… should show what is open, playing and what levels, and let you mute individual sources.
Might belp identify, yes?
I have to go, Will reply later…
Thx for everything
