Zenless Zone Zero — Audio cuts out after alt-tabbing

Not a complaint, just genuinely puzzled by the behaviour. The patch notes hinted at this but never actually spelled it out.

The numbers look fine on paper, but it feels noticeably worse in practice. Thanks in advance to anyone who chips in.

From experience, keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Agreed on most of this, except ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

This is the bit people miss — verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Only partly related, but the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

From experience, it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Slightly different take — do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

From experience, it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

I went through this last month. give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

This comes up a lot, so: region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Agreed on most of this, except if it only happens in one mode, that narrows it down considerably.

Only partly related, but the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

In my testing, the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Not the answer you want, but the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Report back once you have tried it.

Agreed on most of this, except it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.