Hey, anyone else has this issue, where it sounds like the audio is just crackling?

I am also experiencing audio crackling. Thankfully performance-wise the game is almost flawless on me on a 1070ti and 16 gb of ram, with only the occasional dip into the low 50s in very congested areas. So far the only issues I've experienced are audio crackling and very low audio on radio stations, the apartment tv and the random people on the street.

Hopefully a new patch sorts out most of these.

Go into your windows sound control panel and set the mode for your output device to 16bit/44100Hz .
It appears that the game's audio backend is incapable of handling anything higher at the moment