God of War is unplayable to me right now

What's your setup? I have not heard of any audio issues like this before.

I don't think that's normal. Maybe try redownloading it?

Reinstall it?

Hmm, did not experience (or have heard of) this. Hardware issue?

Only God of War, or other games too?

If your using a physical copy, see whether it's scratched or not.

That doesn't seem normal, a problem on your end probably?

Do you have surround sound/ sound bar? May be an issue with other hardware, if not try above.

I would reinstall the game. That's not a normal issue at all.

That's annoying. Are you playing from disc?

That sounds bad. Haven't heard of that issue before.

Delete and reinstall, see if that fixes it. I've not seen anyone else with this problem and I don't get any problems like that.

As others have said I've personally never heard of it. Yes I've played and finished it.

Delete it, reinstall, download your save from the cloud. Start this again

Playing from disc shouldn't be the cause. The game installs everything onto the HDD anyway. He might need to reinstall or it might be a hardware issue with console/receiver/headphones etc.

Never had an issue like this playing through the game. I'd do as others have recommended and install the game again and go from there.

Thats not normal, re install it.

CharlesAznable said:

Game is suffering from severe audio issues. Audio keeps cutting off, characters speaking over each other, audio being desync. Its gotten to the point where entire cutscenes are voiceless and i have to rewatch them on youtube, just to understand wth happened. Did this happen to anyone else? It's a shame because i'm really enjoying it so far, but might have to drop it because of this.

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Played it yesterday. No problems at all. Watched my friend play it yesterday (on his setup) and it ran just as it should. Hmm, maybe reinstall it?

Nearly reaching the end of all post game content and haven't had any issues like this at all.

Platinumed the game and I have not experience that at all.

- Rebuild your database
- Try another game

Maybe a faulty disc? PS4 streams in lots of data as you are playing, so perhaps there is a disc issue

It's either a problem with your PS4 or with the game itself.
Try reinstalling it. Maybe just maybe it's an error in the disc?
If it's a digital download, just uninstall and download again.
There is def something weird going on with the PS4.

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If it's a disc, can you return it or exchange it for another one? Probably the disc itself is the problem.
Tell them they gave you a faulty disc and would like to get a replacement.

CharlesAznable said:

Yeah im playing from disc. Ive tried reinstalling it to no avail. It was fine the first few hours but then the issue started non stop. None of my other games are suffering from this either, and im using the same setup i've always had. I don't think it's a problem with my setup either since it affects subtitles as well. If the audio cuts out then so do my subs.

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Yea, try reinstalling and see if that helps.

CharlesAznable said:

Yeah im playing from disc. Ive tried reinstalling it to no avail. It was fine the first few hours but then the issue started non stop. None of my other games are suffering from this either, and im using the same setup i've always had. I don't think it's a problem with my setup either since it affects subtitles as well. If the audio cuts out then so do my subs.

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Either it's a faulty disc or PS4. Most likely a disc.

Definitely not a problem with the game since no one else has this problem

Works fine for me. Try re-installing it I guess.

is it installed on your extended storage?
I have the same issue with Watchdogs 2 too

CharlesAznable said:

Game is suffering from severe audio issues. Audio keeps cutting off, characters speaking over each other, audio being desync. Its gotten to the point where entire cutscenes are voiceless and i have to rewatch them on youtube, just to understand wth happened. Did this happen to anyone else? It's a shame because i'm really enjoying it so far, but might have to drop it because of this.

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I don't get it. When issues like this appear, you know it is not normal right? Could you really not figure out to do some basic computer actions like reinstalling?

Played all the way through the story, and also got the platinum too.....not one audio issue. Definitely try what others suggested here, that's definitely not normal. In fact, your post is the first ive heard from anyone since the game's release that they are having audio issues.

Both Xbox and PS need a way to verify the game files. Being forced to reinstall/download a huge game is really stupid. Even Nintendo has this option! And they dont have 100 GB games.

Donthizz said:

If your using a physical copy, see whether it's scratched or not.

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Shouldn't make a difference, the game is installed to the HDD, the disc is only used to install and authenticate the game.

I had some minor audio issues with the game, it would tend to skip occassonially but no desync
I suspect it was the PS4 (but everything was up to date) and not encountered it with other games before

Snag a copy of the game from Redbox or something and see if it does it with a different disc. Process of elimination.

EvilBoris said:

Maybe a faulty disc? PS4 streams in lots of data as you are playing, so perhaps there is a disc issue

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PS4 streams none of the data. Every single PS4 game is installed in it's enterity to the HDD, since the PS4 was released.

As others said, uninstall, rebuild data base, check your setup.

It's not normal.

Faulty hdmi?

I would try to reinstall another game to see if it's your PS4.

I had a similar issue where the game would stutter and audio would desync during cutscenes, but it only happened when I was downloading something in the background.

What TV do you have? Do you have a Game Performance mode on your TV?

I would contact Sony and TV manufacturer. Sounds like an odd case of HW clashing somehow.

My bedroom TV will sometimes get a handshake issue with my PS4 and video goes in and out. A quick cycle through inputs fixes this. Have you tried that?

Cant u post this in OT or reddit instead of opening a thread to rant as if its a common widespread issue.

I dont think opening a thread just for us to play IT helpdesk for you and you only is a topic worthy of a thread.

Felaipes said:

PS4 streams none of the data. Every single PS4 game is installed in it's enterity to the HDD, since the PS4 was released.

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incorrect. It streams from disc and data is cached to the "install" as it is used, or when it is not pulling data from the disc.

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So, what we do as the game accesses the Blu-ray disc, is we take any data that was accessed and we put it on the hard drive. And if then if there is idle time, we go ahead and copy the remaining data to the hard drive. And what that means is after an hour or two, the game is on the hard drive, and you have access, you have dramatically quicker loading... And you have the ability to do some truly high-speed streaming

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Contrary to popular belief, the PS4 does not fly in the face of physical hardware limitations of blue ray discs and HDDs and install an entire 50GB game in 2 seconds.

Some games do require preinstall prior to you letting you start the game, but otherwise the data comes through ad hoc.

CharlesAznable said:

Yeah im playing from disc. Ive tried reinstalling it to no avail. It was fine the first few hours but then the issue started non stop. None of my other games are suffering from this either, and im using the same setup i've always had. I don't think it's a problem with my setup either since it affects subtitles as well. If the audio cuts out then so do my subs.

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Maybe a problem with the hard drive?

EvilBoris said:

incorrect. It streams from disc and data is cached to the "install" as it is used, or when it is not pulling data from the disc.

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No.

Are you running the latest official firmware?
If so, then the PS4 is broken.

1)Backup your saves to USB as soon as you can.
2)Restore the system and install only the game with all updates.
3)Reload your save file and see if the issue persists

Also try checking the HDMI cable again. That could def be a cause. Maybe even try replacing that.

So it's fine for a few hours than starts?

Seriously try cycling your HDMI inputs.

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No.

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Mark Cerny agrees with me