I have no idea when or how this happened, but the sound all of a sudden started to become EXTREMELY delayed. I am talking about when I examine a door, try to use it, and at at least 30 seconds later, here comes the sound indicating the door is locked. It didn't use to be like this, It just happened. It also seems like the more I progress, the worse it gets. Not all sounds are effected though, some play when they are supposed to while others don't. What makes this worse, this is my first play-through of the game, so It ruins the experience.

I do notice though that the game seems to have a hard time loading from my hard drive as when I trigger something that plays a sound, my hard drive light on my case flashes very slowly like it is struggling to read something (Task manager even shows 0-4% disk usage from INFRA) I Do know for a fact that my hard drive is fine as this is the only game that has this issue. I have tried defragging, restarting my computer, I even enabled "sv_forcepreload" and "cl_forcepreload" in the console and nothing has worked so far. Any help is appreciated.