These are my specifications, a little underpowered to play this game I know but not massively so, and like I said the crashes are mostly annoying, so I can power through it, and only happens in the main menu with no clear indications, so there isn't any interruption while playing., which is good. As for the sound, I can't really tell you if there's anything strange, my laptop settings are definitely connected to the right headphones, through bluetooth, and I know the game is supposed to be playing sound because whenever I use it I hear a low volumed pop every so often, and no there isn't anything in the background that modifies sound. Frankly, I play the game with the deaf trait now since I can't here anything anyway, also whenever I put my headphones on while playing the game with the deaf trait I still hear that low volumed pop.