Audio breaks on Alt-Tab

[Yoshiatom]

Whenever I Alt-Tab out of or back into Doom Eternal, sound effects (and the Battlemode announcer) in the game stop playing, start cutting out and only play long after the action that was supposed to trigger them happened. Music is uneffected. This only seems to happen if I Alt-Tab; If I always stay focused on the game window audio has no issues.

 

I've tried the following, none of which have worked:

• Disabling voice chat (which apparently has fixed the issues for other people)
• Changing my playback device to use 16bit 48000 Hz or lower audio quality (as recommended on Bethesda Support)
• Using windowed mode or borderless window

 

I'm pretty stumpted as to what could be causing this; the only thing I can think of is the fact I'm running the game off an internal secondary HDD instead of my main SSD. (I'd rather not have to move it over since I don't have a whole lot of space) Also I'm running the game through the Bethesda.net launcher rather than Steam, although I doubt the two would have any major differences EXE-wise.