My game makes a crackling noise every once in a while, when playing the game. This especially happens when there is music, and when it seemingly goes away, it just comes back.

To reproduce this, use headphones. The game may crackle the audio for you, or it may not.

This isn't an isolated issue for me either; there are reports of this elsewhere, such as on Reddit.

Edit: When this issue occurs, it crackles the audio of the whole pc, until the game is closed.